Практичне заняття 11. Theme “Sport in our life”

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Sport in Our Life

People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimnilng, volley-ball, football, bodybuilding, etc.All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields.Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children’s daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical culture is a compulsory subject t schools and colleges.Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. In city, where I live, there are diferent sporting societies, clubs and complexes.Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but football, gymnastics and tennis enjoy the greatest popularity. As for me, I go in for table tennis (ping-pong). It needs mobility, liveliness and much energy. It keeps a person in a good form. I have been playing tennis for five years, but the more I play, the more I like it. I get a real joy taking part in competitions or simply playing with my friends. Sometimes, I go to tennis courts.Certainly, there’s a great distance between my manner playing and such favourjtes as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Per Korda, but I do my training with great pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

fit – у чудовій формі

to pay attention to – звертати увагу на

kindergarten – дитячий садок

compulsory – обов’язковий

to enjoy populatity – користуватися популярністю

mobility – мобільність

distance – відстань

on personal initiative - за власною ініціативою

Questions:

1. Why are people all over the world fond of sports and mm

2. What necessary facilities are provided for people?

3. What kinds of sports are popular in our country?

4. What is your favourite kind of sport? Why?

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа

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Практичне заняття 12. Theme 7 “Books in our life”

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Books in Our Life

Nowadays it’s almost impossible to imagine our life without books. Perhaps, there are more books on our planet than men alive.Long before the invention of printing people valued books as treasure troves of the human knowledge and experience. Hand — written manuscripts took months of writing and were collected by and kept in monasteries with

utmost care. We can distinguish books between three classes of them. Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure. Classics should be taken a little at a time. One’s understanding of books by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Mopassan and Balzak depends on one’s age and experience. Serious is to be read conscientiously and maybe more than once. To a thinking reader they will provide new food for thought every time he rereads it. Many people indulge in reading science fiction, fantasy or detective stories. Of course, there are some advantages and disadvantages of this kind of literature, often reffered to as “easy reading”. As for me, good science fiction and fantasy develop imagination, logical thinking, broader one’s outlook. The same could be said in favour of detective stories. They reveal such minute details of everyday life in this or that particular country that are of greatest interest for a curious reader. The masterpieces of this genre by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and others, show the depths of psychological analysis, the insight into the human nature. As one old saying goes, man cannot live on bread alone. Books are the source of knowledge and the means of self — perfection. Somedtimes it is difficult to solve some problems in life. I think that books can help us. Books must be our friends during all our life.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

treasure trove – скарбниця

monastery – монастир

coscientiously – свідомо

to include in – захоплюватися

science fiction – наукова фантастика

outlook – світогляд

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа

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