9) often played freely, not following written music

Ex. 3. Discuss the questions

1.Are you fond of music?

2.What type of music do you most like to listen to when you are

a) with friend b) relaxing done c) dancing? What about your parent's generation?

3.Do you play any musical instruments?

4.What is a new popular type of music at the moment? Can you describe it?

5.Who is the most popular composer in our country? In other countries?

6.Which of them is your favourite? Why?

PART IV

SPORT

Ex. 1. Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

Many people's favourite hobby is sport. They spend much of their spare time playing team games like football or baseball, games for two or four people, like tennis, or golf or practising an individual sport like running, parachuting or swimming. People practice a sport for a need to keep fit.

During the 1980s and later there was a great increase in interest in getting fit and staying healthy. A lot of people started running and jogging in their spare time. Aerobics classes opened in every town. The number of sports centres for dance and movement increased. Physical exercises of any kind became people's favourite pastime.

Today people continue leading sedentary life and many of them would like to change it. Since our life no longer provides enough exercise we should include it deliberately into our everyday routines. The man or woman who takes regular sport or exercise will stay physically fit, retain youthful vigour, and perhaps, most important to many people, keep a youthful shape and stamina.

There are some exercises to suit everyone. It may be a daily exercise session that takes up little time or, planned exercises which improve a problem area.

But fitness comes not just from some exercises done now and then but from the way you live all the time. Good eating habits, wise drinking habits, regular sleeping habits, and plenty of fresh air are all important parts of the way to keep fit. Start doing all this and you will feel and see the benefits.

Questions:

1.Is sport your favourite hobby? Which sports are you best at? How long have you been playing?

2.Why do you practise this sport? Is it because you want to be fit?

3.What are the most popular sporting activities among young people in our country and abroad?

4.Are exercises enough to keep fit and healthy?

5.Do you support a particular team? Which one? How often do you go to sports events, or do you prefer to watch sports on TV?

6.What part of leisure do people spend on sports in your country / in the English speaking countries? Which are the popular sports in these countries?

7.Is sport the way to health and a longer life?

Ex. 2. Write out the words which can go to each of these points.

a)sports played in teams

b)sports played against one other person

c)sports played alone

d)sports played with a ball

e)sports played out doors

Ex. 3.Group together a sport an item of equipment and a place where the sport is played. You may use the words more than once.

tennis, golf, trunks, racket, slope, pitch clubs, skiing spikes, boots, puck, pool, sticks, shouts, helmet, bathing costume, skates course swimming, running, court track, football, gloves, goggles, vest, rink

Ex. 5. Match each of the following names of sports and games with the appropriate sport report. What context hints helped you do this

1)Keneth Morgan placed the ball carefully in front of the goal mouth and walked slowly back. Then he suddenly turned, ran and kicked.

2)Oxford University won most of the track events including the 100,200 and 1000 metres, but Atlanta were clearly on top in the field events, winning both the long jump and the high jump.

3)Marion Ray scored a surprised victory in last night's competition when she beat last lap. Marion's legs were stronger and her front wheel just in front of Anna's at the finish.

4)Arthur stood on the top board for several seconds. Then he jumped high in the air, his body turning over before his head painted down wards. He stretched out his arms and entered the water without a splash.

5)Silvia Ross won both the women's 100 metres breast stroke and the women's 50 metres freestyle at the Sunbury Poll in Tokyo on Friday.

6)Kevin Nash caught Sean Kearly with a left hock to the jaw in the closing seconds of Round. Sean's Knees folded under him and the next moment he lay flat out on the canvas. Kevin was the winner by knock-out.

7)It was an excellent serve. Joe threw the ball high in the air, jumped up and hit the ball with his first into the Aston court. It cleared the net by an inchor so. An Aston player tried to return it, hit it with the palm of his hard, but the net.

8)There was a clash of sticks, and suddenly the puck was sheeding across the goal. Alex seized his opportunity at once. He caught the puck with his stick and a moment later sent crashing into the goal.

Ex. 6. Find out how much you know about your favourite sport. Let your partners ask you as many questions as possible. The procedure may be the following.

-name your favourite sport

-say whether you play it or watch it or both

-if you watch sport, say whether you watch it alive, on television, or both

-speak about the history of the sport, the countries where it is played, explain the rules of your sport

Ex. 7. Read the dialogues and proceed with the discussion of the problem of violence in sport.

Liz: I think all this violence at football matches is disgusting.

Dave: Yes, but there are only a few violet people – not all the supporters are holidays and social trouble makers.

Liz: I don't agree – I think they're all the same

Dave: That's not true the majority of boys are ordinary wellbehaved boys Liz: What we need is a larger police force, to control these things

Dave: But that might cause more trouble, by making the supporters nervous and afraid of the police.

Liz: That doesn't matter, they can all go to jail!

Dave: That's a very unsympathetic attitude – even the violet ones shouldn't go to jail, they'll only become worse. They need someone to look after them.

Liz: Yes – a prison guard!

Ex. 8. Statements for discussion.

1.Violence in sport is a crime. It should be punished like any other form of violence. Spectator sport causes violence on the stands. It should be also stopped.

2.Boxing is barbaric. So is bull fighting. So is hunting.

3.Women shouldn't play all sport but only those in which they are superior to men; I mean the sports that need grace and skill, like figure skating and gymnastics. Women look absolute fools playing hockey and football.

4.Sport is not for men. It's too dangerous and takes much time. Women's real sport is chasing men.

5.International sport increases chauvinism. It divides more than it brings together.

6."Football is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans. Rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen". (O. Henry)

Ex. 9. Role play. Organize a press conference to discuss some problems in sport. There may be the following participants.

1.The host of the press conference.

2.A famous sportsman, who thinks that sport is destroying life, that being trained for the Olympics he has no time for any private life.

3.A coach, who thinks that sport makes real people in spite of the fact that it has dangers, that it is the process of growing up.

4.A famous sportsman sports star who plays regularly and seriously who is respected and very much liked in the national team who has been a leading sportsman for a long time.

5.A journalist who plays the sport occasionally and mostly for fun and thinks that sport is running man's chances of getting a good profession.

6.A team doctor, who thinks that sportsmen are pressured in sport, that sport is a part of the growing-up process, that it strengthens the heart and lungs, that children learn to overcome pain and real danger.

7.A foreign journalist, who was a professional sportsman and who is interested in the professional sport in the country.

Ex. 10. Writing. Choose one of the following writing options and develop it into a full story.

1.The importance of sport.

2.Problems in sport (use of drugs, violence, vicious sports, etc.).

3.Women in sport.

4.Sport as a business.

Vocabulary:

score/shoot the goal – засчитывать/забивать гол open the score – открыть счет

equalize the score – сравнять счет knock the ball – отбить мяч

kick/hit the ball – пнуть/ударить мяч throw/pass the ball – бросить мяч/пасовать shoot the puck – забить шайбу

to beat – побеждать

to brake records – побить рекорд to foul – нечестно играть

commit a foul – фиксировать нарушение a bat – бита

a rifle – винтовка a cue – кий

an oar – весло

an stick – клюшка

a javelin – метательное копье a slope – склон

a coach – тренер

a referee/umpire– арбитр/судья fair play – игра по правилам foul play – нечестная игра

to be in good/bad sport shape – быть в хорошей/плохой форме

PART IV

IS READING IMPORTANT?

Most teenagers have different opinions on reading. What is your opinion and why do you think so? Use the charts as the prompts.

I think reading is important because …