5. Speaking

Do ex. 8, p. 146.

6. Summary

1. Do you think professional sportsmen earn too much money?

2. Who do you think is the best all around athlete in the world?

3. Is it good that professional sports are so commercial nowadays?

7. Homework

Look for some information and write a short paragraph about a world famous sportsman.

UKRAINIAN FAMOUS SPORTSMEN

лі: вдосконалювати навички усного мовлення й читання; розвивати куль-ру спілкування, мовленнєву реакцію й логічне мислення учнів; виховувати авильне ставлення до спорту, а також загальну культуру учнів.

Procedure

Warm-up

1. Do you know many Ukrainian famous sportsmen?

2. What sports do the represent? Why are they famous all over the world? Speaking

Presentation of a world famous sportsman. (Checking the homework) Reading

Read some information from the Internet page about sport in Ukraine and say if people in our country have got many opportunities to keep active with sport. Can we be proud of our sports achievements?

SPORTS IN UKRAINE, SPORTING NATION

When it comes to sport, most Ukrainians are very serious. Especially when you mention soccer and the Olympic Games. When driving through the streets of Ukraine you will see many youngsters playing especially soccer and rugby, most of them play with the goal to join one of the Ukrainian clubs or teams one day.

Ukraine has made a big name for itself so far on soccer levels. In fact, Ukraine's soccer is so impressive that they have even been the first soccer team that qualified for the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany.

Ukraine usually also does very well at the summer Olympic Games. At the 2008 summer Olympic games, Ukraine managed to get a marvelous total of 27 me­dals. They managed to get 7 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 15 bronze medals.

For the more adventurous people living in Ukraine their lies many op­portunities waiting on weekends and in free time. Sports and activities such as diving, snow skiing, mountain climbing, mountain biking, swimming, trekking and horse riding is becoming more and more popular by the day.

Sports such as football and arm wrestling have been popular in Ukraine since the 19th century, when strongman Ukrainian wrestler Ivan Piddubny was a real legend throughout Europe. Legends of the 20th century include such names as pole vault champion Sergey Bubka (35 world records), and foot­ballers like Oleg Blohin, twice European Footballer of the Year. Ukrainian gymnasts like Larisa Latynina and Iryna Deryugina both took a haul of Olym­pic medals in their time. Latynina won 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals! Altogether Ukrainian sportsmen have won over 400 Olympic medals so far.

Today Ukraine gives the international sports scene such names as box­ers Vitaly and Vladimir Klichko, track and field athlete Zhanna Pintuse-vich, tennis player Andriy Medvedev, wimmer Yana Klochkova, gymnast Anna Bezsonova, and footballer Andriy Shevchenko, who is considered something of a national hero in Ukraine.

Speaking

> Work in pairs.

What do you need to be a winner?

Look through the phrases below. Add to this list your own ideas and share them with your partner. It is important...

I think one of the most important things is... to be confident

to be at one's best in all situations to be an active participant to do morning exercises to train hard