Ex. 8. Olympic Find It! Quiz

1. This word starts with a “G”. It is the name of the country where the Olympic Games Began in ancient times.

2. This word starts with an “A”. It is the name of someone who excels at a sport.

3. This word starts with a “T”. It is an object that carries a flame.

4. This word starts with an “S” It is a large building in which many sports events are held.

5. this word starts with an “S”. It is a hot season of the year in which some Olympic Games are held.

6. This word starts with a “W”. It is a cold season of the year in which some Olympic Games are held.

7. This word starts with an “F”. It is the number of rings in the Olympic Flag.

8. This word starts with an “M”. It is an award given to the top three people in each event in the Olympics.

9. This word starts with a “G”. It is a precious metal. The top athlete in each event receives an object coated with this metal.

10. This word starts with an “S”. It is valuable metal. The second-best athlete in each event receives an object coated with this metal.

11. This word starts with a “B”. It is a metal alloy. The third-best athlete in each event receives an object coated with this metal.

12. This word starts with a “B”. It is a team sport that involves a big orange ball and a hoop. It is included in the summer Olympics.

13. This word starts with a “B”. It is a team sport that involves a small white ball and a bat. It is included in the summer Olympics.

14. This word starts with a “I”. In the Winter Olympic games, you see figure skaters and hockey skaters wearing these on their feet.

15. This word starts with an “I”. It is the name of the country that hosted the 2006 winter Olympic Games.

Ex. 9. Read and translate the text.

Curling

How It's Played

Curling can be looked at as lawn bowling on ice. The playing area, or "rink," is 46 yards long and 14 feet wide. At each end is a house, 12 feet in diameter. A mark called the button or tee in the center of the house is surrounded by concentric circles. The circles simply make it easier to judge distances; they have no effect on scoring.

Instead of rolling balls, curlers slide round stones down the ice, attempting to get as close as possible to the button. A stone has a maximum diameter of 36 inches and a maximum weight of 44 pounds. There's a handle at the top, and the bottom is concave to reduce friction.

Teams are made up of four players, led by a captain, or "skip". Each player delivers two stones, alternating with an opponent. The unique feature of curling is that a player's teammates use brooms to sweep the ice ahead of the stone, allowing it to go farther.

After all eight players are finished, the end (or inning) is complete. A team scores one point for each stone that's nearer to the tee than any of the other team's stones. Thus, only one team can score in any given end and the number of points can range from one to eight. If there are no stones in the house, or if the closest stones from the opposing teams are the same distance from the tee, there is no scoring for that end. A match is usually made up of 10 to 12 ends.

Curling is a highly tactical sport. Knocking an opponent's stone out of scoring territory is an important part of the sport, as is protecting a teammate's stone to make it difficult for an opponent to dislodge. Expert curlers, by putting spin on a stone, can make it curve (or "curl") a considerable distance to place it behind blocking stones.

Ex. 10. Guess the sport game.

1. You have to use a special racquet to hit the ball. You must not touch the ball with your body. You don't have to hit the ball before it bounces. It can bounce once. You don't have to wear white, but many players do. You have to play in a special room. You have to hit the ball above a line on the wall.

2. You have to hit the ball with a long wooden hammer. The ball has to go into a goal. You don't need to be rich, but you have to know how to ride a horse.

3. To win this game, you have to score 21 points and still be 2 points ahead. You don't have to run very far. You have to hit the ball with a small wooden paddle. The ball must not bounce on the floor or on your side of the net except when you serve.

4. You have to be good at running. You don't need to wear any protective clothing and you must not try to hit another player. You can touch the ball with any part of your body except your hands. Only one person on each team is allowed to touch the ball with his hands—and he doesn't have to be good at running.

5. You must not touch the other players. You are allowed to touch the ball with your hands and try to throw it into the net. You can run with the ball if you bounce it with one hand.

6. You have to reach 15 points to win. You have to hit the ball over the net with your hands. If it lands out of court, the other side gets a point. You can play this game almost anywhere if you have a net—in the garden, on the beach, as well as in a gymnasium.

Ex. 11. Find all of the Olympic words below in the grid on the left.

medals bronze gold silver Olympics athlete events	ice hockey countries skeleton curling training snowboarding	figure skating bobsleigh luge speed skating long track short track	skiing alpine cross country freestyle jumping Nordic combined

Ex. 12. Try to describe your favorite game. Let your partners guess which game you are describing. Speak according to the plan that is given in the example:

Example:

1. Number of players: Two teams of eleven players each.

2. Equipment necessary: a ball

3. Place where played: a special field which has goal posts at both ends.

4. How to play and win: the players kick the ball to each other. They try to kick it between the goal posts of the opposing team.

6. Some of the rules: only the two goal-keepers are allowing to touch the ball with their hands; no one can kick or push another player.

Ex. 13. Answer the following questions. Do not answer in one sentence. Add something:

What kind of sport do you know? 2. Do you play draughts? Do you attend hockey matches? What football team do you support? 5. Did you ever try figure-skating? 6. Who usually likes tobogganing? 7. What do spectators do at the stadium? 8. Where are boat-races held? 9. What is the most popular sport in Russia? 10. Do Russian teams participate in international matches? 11. Who coaches your football team? 12. What sports and games do you know? 13. What games take the first place in public interest? 14. What is the great national sport in England?

Ex. 14. Listen and insert the missing words into the dialogues.

Loyal fans

Ted: What do you think of the game, Bill?

Bill: Dreadful! It was neither exciting nor ________.

Ted: I agree with you. Of course the weather didn’t help. They’d hardly _____ off when it started to rain.

Our team is useless in the mud, and they were off _______ away.

Bill: Some of our team can’t play ________ in either wet or dry conditions, and I’ve never seen them on

form. I can’t help laughing when I watch old Ford. Every time he gets the ball he either ______ over

or passes it to the ____________. I can’t make out why they pick him.

Ted: He’s too old really. He had already been playing in the team for about ten years when I became a

___________ – and that was eight years ago.

Bill: Evans isn’t much better. He is not only too _______ , he’s scared to tackle as well.

Ted: Yes, he is always afraid of getting injured. Neither Ford nor Evans is up to it. We need two new

defenders and a new ____________ too.

Bill: But the management is to mean to spend money either or new players or on improvement of the

ground.

Ted: Yes, that’s true. The _______ is a disgrace. It isn’t flat and the drains don’t work. Every time it rains

the pitch is covered with great puddles of water.

Bill: What we need, Ted is not only new players but a new manager and a new pitch as well. Then

perhaps we could win _______________ to the Third Division.

Ex. 15. Make up your own dialogue on the following situations:

1. Two friends are talking after a football match. One is happy – his favorite team has won; the other is not as his team has lost the match.

2. Imagine a dialogue between two sports fans about their favorite sports. Each of them is trying to prove that his kind of sports is the best.

3. It’s Sunday afternoon. In a few minutes, there will be a football match on TV, while on another channel there will be a fashion show. Argument between husband and wife.

Ex. 16. Translate the following sentences into English.

Я предпочитаю легкую атлетику боксу и борьбе. 2. Я мечтаю поставить рекорд по плаванию. 3. Сегодня я не могу бежать, я не в форме. 4. Люди во всем мире следят за Олимпийскими играми 5. Он уделяет много времени физической подготовке. 6. Я болею за футбольную команду «Спартак». 7. Наша игра закончилась вничью. 8. Он охотно будет тренировать нас в фехтовании. 9. Вы занимаетесь легкой атлетикой? 10. Виндсерфинг и дельтапланеризм появились совсем недавно. 11. Мальчик мечтает стать хоккеистом и просит купить ему клюшку и шайбу. 12. Сколько человек примут участие в институтском шахматном чемпионате? 13. Разве вы не хотели бы завоевать кубок в этом соревновании? 14. Кто первый забил гол? 15. Вы пойдете на этот матч? 16. Стрельба из лука стала достаточно популярным видом спорта. 17. Никто не ожидал, что они выиграют со счетом 2:0. 18. Ему хорошо дается фигурное катание. 19. Женщины не играют в футбол, правда? — Играют, но редко. 20. Кто завоевал первенство вашего института, по шашкам? — Один из наших первокурсников. 21. Не стоит вступать больше чем в два спортивных кружка одновременно. 22. Я предпочитаю художественную гимнастику любому другому виду спорта. 23. Мы не сможем с вами соревноваться, мы недостаточно подготовлены. 24. Вы собираетесь участвовать в соревнованиях по гребле? — Обязательно. 25. Я уверен, что игра закончится вничью. 26. У нас прекрасный зал и все возможности для хорошей физической подготовки.

Ex. 17. Listen to the texts then retell them

Ex. 18. Speaking practice

1. The role of sport in modern life.

2. Olympic Games.

3. Sport game. Kind of sport.

Ex. 19. Writing practice

Write one page essay about

1. your favorite kind of sport or sport game. Write about the rules and how to play it.

2. how to be physically fit.

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