Unit 9

SPORT

Text: Sport in our life.

Grammar: The Passive Voice.

Практические цели: введение и закрепление грамматической темы: The Passive Voice и выполнение грамматических упражнений на закрепление. Ознакомление лексического материала по теме "Sport" и закрепление активной лексики в речевых упражнениях.

Sports and games popular in England

— What would you say are the most popular games in England today?

— Well, I suppose football, that is, soccer, racket and cricket.

— What are the other outdoor games?

— Oh, there's tennis, hockey, golf, and so on. Tennis is played all the, year round—on

hard courts or grass courts in summer, and on hard or covered courts in winter.

— What about horse-racing?

I should say that is one of the most popular sports in Great Britain. Then there are, of course,

walking-races, running, swimming and boxing.

— I've been told that there are no winter sports in England.

— Well, you see; the English winter isn't very severe as a rule and we don't often have the

chance of, skiing, skating or tobogganing, but winter is the great time for hunting, provided

the ground is not too hard.

— Is there any golf to be had near London?

— Oh, yes, any amount. There are dozens of good golf-links within an hour/or so of London.

You ought to join a golf club if you're keen on the game.

— I think I shall if I get the chance. What about indoor games?

— Well, there's chess, billiards, cards, table tennis... By the, way, do you play billiards?

— Well, but of 'course, I'm not a professional or a champion, just an ordinary amateur and not a

very good one at that.

Topical vocabulary.

1. amateur (professional) sport любительский спорт

2. championship чемпионат

3. competition соревнование

4. contest соревнование

5. cup (final, semi-final) match матч на кубок

6. indoor (outdoor or open-air) sports комнатный вид спорта

7. sports спортивные игры

8. sports adj, e. g. sports jacket (shirt) спортивный

9. tournament турнир

10. crew n (used for sportsmen команда

rowing or sailing a boat) national (Olympic, college)

11.team команда

12. official (umpire, referee, judge) n судья

13. opponent (rival) n соперник

14. sportsman (athlete) n спортсмен

15.sportswoman n спортсменка

16.fan (colloq.) n, e.g. фанат

17.football fan футбольный фанат

18.shout for v болеть за

19.spectator n зритель

20.support поддерживать

21.scoring system счетная система

22.best (record, fastest) time лучший результат

23.defeat наносить поражение

24.draw n. e. g. The match ended in a draw. ничья

draw v, e. g. The two teams drew.

25.goal n гол

26.lose v проиграть

loser n

27.point n, e. g . How many points have they won? очко

28.score n, e. g. The score of the game was 6 : 4 очко

score v. e. g. He scored 20 points. Neither side scored in the game (не забила гол).

29.victory n победа

Ex.1.Read and act out the dialogue.

Ex.1. What do you call a person who goes in for:

wrestling, cycling, weight-lifting, swimming, diving, running, mountaineering, boxing, skiing, racing, hunting, playing football, playing chess, playing draughts, ath­letics, skating, playing volley-ball, playing basket-ball, playing hockey?

Ex.2. Fill in prepositions if necessary:

Sport is very popular ... Britain. ... other words a lot ... British people like the idea ... sport; a lot even watch sport, especially ... the TV. However, the number who actively take part ... sport is probably quite small. '4;'the whole British people prefer to be fat rather than fit.

The most popular spectator sport is football. Football is played ... a Sunday afternoon ... most British towns and the fans, or supporters ... a particular team will travel ... one end ... the country ... the other to see their team play.

Many other sports are also played ... Britain, including golf ... which you try to knock a ball ... a hole; croquet ... which you try to knock a ball ... some hoops; basket­ball ... which you try to get a ball ... a net; tennis ... which you try to hit a ball so that your opponent cannot hit it and cricket which is played ... a ball, but is otherwise incomprehensible. As you can see, if the ball had not been invented, there would have been no sport.

Actually that's not quite true. Athletics is not played ... a ball, nor is horse-racing. Perhaps that explains why they are not so popular as football.

Ex.3.Answer the following questions. Do not answer in one sentence. Add something else:

1. What kind of sport do you go in for? 2. Do you play draughts? 3. Do you attend hockey matches? 4. 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 stadiums? 8. Where are boat-races I held in Moscow? 9. What is the most popular sport in the 1 Soviet Union? 10. Do Soviet teams participate in international matches? 11. Who coaches your volley-ball team?12. Where are the Oxford and Cambridge boat-races held? 13. What is the difference between a "sport" and a "game"? 114. What sports and games do you know? 15. What games take the first place in public interest? 16. What is the great national sport in England?

Ex.4. Make up dialogues using the following words:

in my opinion ...; there's nothing like ...; I don't quite see what people find in ...; how can you say such a thing!;

I don't know anything more exciting than ...; I see nothing exciting in ...; I can't agree with you there; absolutely marvelous; I like it immensely.

Ex.5. Read the following text and comment on it: