Figure skating. Фигурное катание. Лексико-грамматический практикум по английскому языку

Упражнение 8. Совместите слова из левой колонки с английскими эквивалентами из правой колонки:

Упражнение 9. Найдите в тексте эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений:

ценные качества, на гладком льду катка, это верный способ забыть ваш возраст, выносливость, быстрый и чистый старт, обязательная программа, представление, гладкость, устойчивость, движения обоих партнеров, мировой рекорд, стали чрезвычайно популярными, вот почему, спорт вечной молодежи

Упражнение 10. Восстановите последовательность предложений:

1.The first round is very often called the “school”.

2.The performance is judged by many factors including the skates’ tracings, positions of hands, body and feet and the smoothness and steadiness of skating.

3.The second round is the short free-skating program which lasts not more than two minutes.

4.Today skaters must skate the fi gures “eight”, “three”, “loop”, and “rocker” and repeat them two times, following the pattern the skates had left on the ice.

5.All sportsmen must skate four skating figures.

6.The competitions are concluded by the 5 minutes free program.

7.In the free program sportsmen and their coaches may show skills multiplied by their fantasy and added up by music.

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Упражнение 11. Заполните пропуски:

complicated, popular, also, factors, includes, both, nothing, round, steps

1. Skating is a very ___ winter sport in our country. 2. Skating ___ speed skating and fi gure skating. 3. In ice fi gure skating ___ technical skill and style are tested. 4. The fi rst ___ is very often called the “school”. 5. The performance is judged by many ___ including the skates’ tracings, positions of hands, body and feet and the smoothness and steadiness of skating. 6. Pair skating is more ___.7. It should be ___ noted, in fi gure-skating all elements are performed with a smile as if there is ___ diffi cult. 8. Anyone who ___ on the smooth ice of the rink will soon discover that this is a sure way to forget your age.

Упражнение 12. Угадайте слово, прочитав определение:

1.P _ _ _ s_ _ _ _ _ g (noun): kind of skating which is more complicated. Its elements include lifting and spirals. Very often the movements must be synchronized.

2.S_ _ _ _ _ (noun): they have a toe-rake or “teeth” in front of the sole of the

blades.

3.I _ _ d _ _ _ _ _ g (noun): kind of skating where are no elements which demand strength, like lifts. Dancers use movements which must be brief and show the style and quality of dancing.

4.F _ _ _ _ _ _ (noun): skaters skate “eight”, “three”, “loop”, and “rocker” and so on.

5.I _ _ _ _ s s _ _ _ (noun): an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, esp. one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence

6.L _ _ _ (verb): pick up and move to a different position

7.P _ _ _ _ _ (noun): marks are given for each figure.

8.T_ _ _ _ _ _ (n) someone whose job is to teach

9.C_ _ _ _ (n) someone who trains a person or team in a sport

10.R _ _ _ _ _ _ (n) the offi cial who controls a sports event

11.S _ _ _ _ _ (n) one that skates

12.S_ _ _ _ _ _ r _ _ _ (n) a place where you can skate

Упражнение 13.

a)Прочитайте и переведите следующий диалог;

b)Разыграйте диалог;

c)Подготовьте аналогичный диалог:

A.: What have you been doing, John?

B.: Watching sport program, Ben. They have been broadcasting the World Championship in Canada. When I watch performances of our athletes they take my breath away, because I am afraid to miss something important.

A.: And how was it?

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B.: You know, Ben, it was a magnifi cent sight. What grace, what ease and what elegance!

A.: There is hardly a person who does not admire fi gure skating, is there? B.: I believe not. It is a splendid combination of ballet and skating.

A.: I was particularly taken with pair events. Irina Rodhina and Alexander Zaitsev have been superb. Many thanks to our skaters for their great affords. And very few people know what it takes skaters to prepare their performance how much inhuman patience is needed to make all their movements perfect. You ought to have seen them, John.

B.: But I have. We turned on the TV set in my office.

A.: Mastering one’s body balance does seem a simple thing when you see them skimming along that ice mirror.

B.: And what do you say about their rounding the turns? A.: They are too smart for words, John.

B.: And the starting was so swift and clean with everybody. A.: Free skating was the best to my mind.

B.: Oh, Ben! I did not see the whole of the event.

I was called to the telephone when it was announced.

A.: We shall see them again tomorrow. It’s a treat, isn’t it? B.: Yes, quite.

Упражнение 14. Напишите данные слова в правильном порядке, чтобы получились предложения:

1.Norwegian, Axel, Paulsen, fi gure, (1855–1938), was, speed, a, and, skater.

2.Axel, jump, he, inventor, of, is, the, the, fi gure, skating.

3.Axel first publicly Paulsen executed the jump in at the World 1882 in Vienna while Championships wearing skates speed.

4.ChampionshipsAxel Paulsen at and fancy (fi gure) skating the Vienna events becoming World won both the speed skating the World Champion.

5.Paulsen in races professional skater was a competing.

6.He Speed Skating was 1882 to World Professional the Champion from

1889.

7.While, I, cry, performances, watching, sometimes

8.Olympics were in Sochi Games Winter the 22nd Olympic.

9.The of the Olympic governing IOC is body the Movement

10.The modern event Games are Olympic the international leading sporting

11.He fi rst multi-sport major, modern, event of signifi cance was international the Games modern Olympic.

12.Athletes, or, teams, gold, silver, are, awarded, or bronze, medals, for first, and third, second, place, respectively.

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Упражнение 15. Совместите слова из левой колонки с определениями в правой:

Упражнение 16. Верны ли следующие утверждения:

Ice skating originated from the North of America.

Wooden or bone skates were fast because they didn’t stick to ice.

Peter the Great visited Holland in 1968 and didn’t study different crafts there.

The fi rst skating club appeared in 1742 in Switzerland.

The fi rst competitions which were held according to the modern formula took place in 1875 in Australia.

In 1855 the fi rst ice fi gure-skating rink was opened in Petersburg. Figure-skating was fi rst included in the Olympic Games in 1980, when the

competitions were held on artifi cial ice only for men.

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In ice fi gure-skating only technical skill are tested.

The fi rst round is very often the short free-skating programme. Pair skating isn’t complicated.

Упражнение 17. Ознакомьтесь с таблицами международных спортивных сокращений:

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Цифра в конце (1,2,3,4) означает уровень поддержки

В протоколах соревнований, проводимых по новой системе судейства, используется большое количестве аббревиатур. Они состоят из двух частей: цифры (1,2,3,4), соответствующей числу оборотов, и буквы, соответствующей названию прыжка:

Упражнение 18. Расшифруйте и переведите сокращения:

ISU, GP, CD, Sta, SD, 4S+2T, Tw, 3T+2T+SEQ, 3LZ+COMBO, CuLI3, RoLi1, Ro, ChSq, Li, Ups, FD, OD, RRo

Irina Slutskaya won the GP Final. Slutskaya landed seven triples in the final segment, including two triple-triple combinations, and became the fi rst woman to perform a 3Lz-3Lo combination in competition.

After winning the SD at the 2001 World Championships, in the free skate Slutskaya became the fi rst woman to land a 3S-3Lo-2T combination. She twofooted her 3Lz-3Lo-2T combination and had problems on two other landings.

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Упражнение 19. Зашифруйте и переведите выделенные слова, используя международную аббревиатуру:

Lipnitskaya made her debut at the 2014 World Championship in Japan. She placed third in the short dance with a new personal best score of 74.54 points. She landed a triple lutz-triple toe loop combination, a triple fl ip and a double axel and earned level fours on all her spins and her steps sequence. She placed second in the free skate earning 132.96 points, and won the silver medal at her first Senior World Championships appearance at the age of 15 years.

Упражнение 20. Прочитайте текст. Расшифруйте и переведите международные сокращения по памяти:

Plushenko is the fi rst male skater to perform the Biellmann spin in the senior competitions. At the 1999 NHK Trophy, he became the first skater to perform a 4T–3T–2Lo combination in competition. He has since landed the combination 26 times.

Plushenko is also the fi rst to land a 4T–3T–3Lo combination in competition. He fi rst landed the combination at the 2002 Cup of Russia and has since landed it four times. He is the fi rst skater to complete the 3A-3F combination.

Plushenko is also the fi rst to perform a 3T–3T–3Lo–2Lo combination, which he first did at the 2001 ARD Gala. At the 2006 Russian Figure Skating Championships, he landed a six jump combination (3T–3T–2Lo–2Lo–2Lo–2Lo) in his exhibition program. He performed a 3A-3T-3Lo combination at the exhibition fi nale of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Plushenko has consistently landed 4T in competitions and landed a 4S in Samara, Russia during the 2004 Russian Cup series. It is estimated that he has landed a total of about 100 quads in competition.

Plushenko has worked on and landed 4Lo and 4Lz in practice, but has never completed any of them in competition. He has also worked on a 3A-4T combination.

At the age of 16, Plushenko became the youngest male skater to ever receive a perfect score of 6.0. He received a total of seventy fi ve 6.0’s before the new Code of Points judging system was introduced. Under the Code of Points system, he has set 13 world record scores (5 in the short program, 4 in free skating, and 4 in the combined total).

Упражнение 21. Напишите правильную форму слова, данного справа:

WHY SKATING IS SO GOOD

Part I

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Упражнение 22. Напишите слова в алфавитном порядке, начиная с “a” затем “b”, “c” и т.д.:

Ice, country, game, shirt, skating, skates, rules, skaters, spectator, club, national, sport, world, sports hall, ice rink, sportsmen, team, championship, winner, footwear, injury, music, protection, different, angle, blade, allow, referee, slide, grace, equipment, amateur, events, Olympic, white, successful, against, professional, individual, competition, tournament, annually, coach, trousers.

Упражнение 23. Выберите правильный ответ:

THE TEST

1.Where did the ice-skating originate from?

A)Russia

B)the north of Europe

C)the USA

2.Where was skating practiced as mean of transport?

A)Norway

B)Russia

C)Holland

3.When did Peter the Great visit Holland?

A)1698

B)1850

C)1917

4.Where were the fi rst all metal skates in Russia made?

A)Moscow

B)St. Petersburg

C)Tula

5.How old are the bone skates?

A)3 thousand

B)1 thousand

C)1 hundred

6.Where were regular annual fi gure-skating championships held?

A)Moscow

B)Tula

C)St. Petersburg

7.When was fi gure-skating included in the Winter Olympics?

A)1908

B)1910

C)1924

8.Who was the fi rst Russian Olympic champion in fi gure skating?

A)Salchow

B)Zhuk

C)Panin Kolomenkin

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9.When did the Soviet fi gure-skaters make their debut?

A)1950

B)1956

C)1960

10.Who were our fi rst World champions and Olympic champions of ice-

dancing?

A)L. Pakhomova, A Gorshkov

B)I.Moiseeva, A. Minenkov

C)I.Rodnina, A Ulanov

11.What number were the Winter Olympic Games in Russian?

A)XXI

B)XIX

C)XXII

12.Where were held the last Winter Olympic Games?

A)in the USA

B)in Russian

C)in France

13.What disciplines appeared as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics?

A)ladies’ singles

B)pair skating

C)men’s singles, ladies’ singles, pair skating and ice dancing

РАЗГОВОРНАЯ ПРАКТИКА

Упражнение 24. Спросите собеседника:

1.What kinds of fi gure skating he knows;

2.What kinds of fi gure skating he likes best of all (ice dancing, pair fi gure skating or single) and why;

3.What Olympic champions – students, graduates of our Academy he

knows;

4.What sport facilities connected with fi gure skating he knows;

5.What figures must fi gure skater perform.

6.What sports he likes; What sports he does;

7.What sports he is good at;

8.If he watches friends’ performance;

9.If he prefer to watch fi gure skating at the stadium or on TV;

10.If he wants to be a sports stat in the future; why;

11.If he watches sports on TV;

12.What achievements foreign and Russian sportsmen have;

13.How much faster and better you think skaters can perform;

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