8. 1. Listen to the text “One Man in a Boat”

• Divide it into communicative blocks, entitle them.

• Find the logical centre of each communicative block and of the whole text.

• Answer the following questions:

1. What is your attitude to this kind of sport? Are you fond of it?

2. What’s your favourite kind of Sport? Give your reasons.

2. A). Listen to the story “The Last One?” twice and then finish the following sentences, imitating the speaker’s intonation.

1. After reading an article the writer lit a cigarette …

2. He was sure that this cigarette …

3. For the whole week the writer …

4. After seven days the writer went …

5. There he left extremely …

b). Answer the following questions:

• Do you smoke? Do you consider it difficult to give up smoking?

• What would you recommend to give up this harmful habit?

c). Agree and disagree with the following statements, using suitable intonation patterns.

1. The writer decided to give up smoking after reading a newspaper article.

2. He smoked with indifference and disliking.

3. For a whole week the writer had some unusual symptoms of someone who gave up smoking:

4. The writer’s friends kept on offering him cigarettes and cigars.

5. When the writer went to a party he felt ill at ease.

Additional Training

1. Listen to short stories.

a) “Football or Polo?”

Make a summary of the text, try to imitate the speaker’s intonation.

Answer the question: What would you do if you were “the man in the boat?”

b) “Across the Channel.”

Find sentences that may prove that Erma is a strong swimmer.

Produce sentences which contain Active Vocabulary referring to sport.

c) “Faster than Sound.”

Answer the following questions:

• How often is the race for old cars held?

• Explain why such races are so exciting.

• Do you like such kind of sport? Would you enter for such a race if you had a chance.

2. Listen to the poem, lay stresses and tone marks. Learn it by heart. No Enemies

by Mackay

You have no enemies, you say

Alas! My friend the boast is poor

He who has mingled in the fray

Of duty, that the brave endure

Must have foes! If you have none,

Small is the work that you have done.

You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,

You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip

You’ve never turned the wrong to right,

You’ve been a coward in the fight

3. A). Read the following conversation, using intonational patterns you find suitable. Use them in conversational situations of your own. The Football Match

Characters — Mr. Priestley, Lucille, Frieda, Pedro, Olaf, Hob.

Lucil1e: What splendid seats! We'll be able to see everything from here.

Pedro: Yes, Jan has certainly looked after us well. We'll have to take him out to dinner after the match.

The others: Good idea, Pedro, we certainly must.

Hob: And we must shout for his team. I hope Jan is in form today.

Mr. Priestley: I hope he is. I hear they are to choose the players tomorrow for the international match and if he plays well today Jan may be chosen.

Pedro: Yes, I heard that the Selection Committee would be at the match and I told Jan he was to play his best today because they were watching him.

Olaf: It must be exciting to play in an international match.

Pedro: Here are the teams coming out. Jan is leading the London team,. He must be the captain.

Frieda: Yes, he is.

Hob: Jan must be a good player.

Olaf: He is; you have to be a good player to be captain of London team.

Lucille: If Jan is chosen for the international match, will he have to give up his studies and go into training?

Frieda: He mustn't do that. He must go on with his studies. They are more important than football.

Mr. Priestley: He needn't give up his studies. He has been playing regularly and is in good form.

Hob: Jan's lost the toss and the Oxford captain has decided to play with the wind.

Olaf: Oh, well, they'll have to play against the wind in the second half. 1 see Jan is playing centre-forward. He's just getting ready to kick off. There they go.

Hob: Come on, London!

(About an hour and a half later)

Mr. Priestley: This has been a grand game. I hardly remember ever seeing a better one. Jan has played the game of his life.

Lucille: I've nearly lost my voice with shouting "Come on, London!" Oh, 1 wish London could win.

Mr. Priestley: I don't think they can. It must be nearly time now. It's one goal each, and the Oxford defence is magnificent.

Olaf: Yes, if my watch is right, they have three mi­nutes to go.

Frieda: Look! Jan has got the ball. He's going like lightning towards the Oxford goal. Oh, go on, Jan!

Pedro: That Oxford centre-half is trying to stop him. Lucille: Go on, Jan. You mustn't let him stop you. Mr. Priestley: Jan passed the ball to the inside right, a wonderful pass.

Luci11e: Oh! The inside-right is down; he's had to part with the ball.

Olaf: Look, Jan's got it again, he's beaten the fullback and is racing towards the goal.

Hob: Shoot, Jan, shoot! It's a goal!

Pedro: Oh, what a shot! The goal-keeper hadn't a chance.

Mr. Pries1ley: And there's the whistle for full time, and London have won. Well, they have to choose Jan for the international match now.

(From "Essential English for Foreign Students",

Book 4, by C. E. Eckersley. Abridged)

• Act out the following situations:

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

2. Imagine a dialogue between two fans about their favourite sports.