IV. What kind of pupil is Helen? Describe her in 5 sentences. Unit 3. Bigger! Stronger! Faster!

Vocabulary:

referee – суддя

Last Saturday afternoon Henry Brown and his father went to a football match. The Browns and many other people of their town think that theirs is the best team of England.

There were fifteen thousand people at the stadium. They came from many places because it was the most important match of the year.

At three o’clock everybody saw the two teams in the field. The home team were in blue and white shirts, and the visitors team were in red and white shirts.

The referee began the match. For the first twenty minutes the home team was stronger and the ball was always on the visitors’ side of the field. Then a player from the visitors’ team scored the first goal. Soon after this the referee stopped the game because it was half-time.

In the second half of the match the home team was again the better players. They attacked all the time, and after ten minutes they scored their first goal. They scored again after a quarter of an hour; then, before the game ended, they scored the third goal and so won the match.

Post- listening activity.

1. Mark the true answers ``+`` and the false ``-``.

1. Last Sunday afternoon Henry Brown and his father went to a football match.

2. There were fifteen thousand people at the stadium.

3. At four o’clock everybody saw the two teams in the field.

4. The home team were in green and white shirts.

5. For the first twenty minutes the home team was stronger.

6. All the people at the football ground were very sad.

2. Answer the questions.

1. Who scored only one goal?

2. Which of the two teams played faster?

3. A football game lasts for ninety minutes and has two halves. How long does each half last?

4. Who began the match?

5. Why are some football players very popular?

6. When was the football match?

3. Describe football as a kind of sports. Unit 4. Round the calendar.

The 1^st of January, New Year’s Day, is a big holiday in Scotland. People don’t go to work on that day, and children don’t go to school. Scottish people celebrate New Year’s Eve in every family. Friends usually come on that day. They have a good dinner. After dinner there are apples, other fruit, and different sweets to eat. Then all the family and the friends begin to play games and dance.

Before 12 o’clock at night many people in the towns go out into the streets and the friends begin to play games and dance.

Then people wish a Happy New Year to all and go home to meet the first-footers. A first-footer is a man who comes first to a house on the 1^st of January, on New Year’s Day. Today the first-footer brings a little piece of coal, some money and a little piece of bread. These things show that the family will be warm and they will have food and money all the year.

When the first-footer comes into the house, he wishes a Happy New Year to all the members of the family, talks to them, eats and drinks something and goes to another house.