Fill in the gaps with one suitable word in an appropriate grammar form.

Lead-in. Sports in Britain

The British are a sporting nation. Like everyone else they love football — in

fact, they (1)________________it. Most British towns and cities have a football

(2)_________________Every year, each team plays in the Football Association

competition. The two best teams play in the Cup Final at Wembley Stadium in

`___ London. Some fans pay up to £200 for a (3) for the Cup Final. It is

one of the biggest sporting (4)______________________ of the year.

Cricket is a typically British (5)____________The only other countries that play ill

are Pakistan, India, the West Indies, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

____ Cricket is a very long game. The big international (6)______________go on for five

days. But in the real English way, the players always stop for tea.

Tennis is another (7)_______________game in Britain. Every summer, in June, the

biggest international tennis (8)___________________ takes place at Wimbledon, a suburb of London.

Many British people who live near the sea, a lake, or a river enjoy sailing. If

you are really enthusiastic, and rich enough to buy your own (9)______________, you

can take (10)______________in one of the annual sailing races or "regattas" at Cowes,

near Portsmouth, for example, or at Henley on the river Thames.

Sport questions

1. Do you lead an active way of life?

2. Do you go in for sport? What kind(s) of sport? What does it give you?

3. Are PE classes necessary? Do you like them? Why?

4. Who is your favourite sportsman? Why?

5. Do you watch sports competitions? Which ones?

6. Why can a sportsman leave sport?

7. Is physical ability the crucial factor determining one’s involvement in sport?

8. How can sport change one’s life?

9. What are problems of sport?

10. Are sports competitions necessary?

11. What are positive and harmful effects of sport?

12. In what ways are sportsmen different from other people?

13. What is the character-training aspect of sport?

14. Is professional sport necessary?

15. What are criteria of dividing sport into male and female kinds?

16. What does one’s involvement in sport depend on?

17. What is special about the Olympic Games?

18. Do you look forward to the Olympic Games in Sochi?

19. Do sportsmen deserve the money they are paid in your view?

20. Are sport activities a necessary constituent of a healthy way of life?

Vocabulary SPORT

Olympics

· athletes

· physical fitness

· gymnasium

· stadium

· training facilities

· aristocratic ideas of physical fitness and intellectual prowess

· all inclusive athletic competition in both mind and body are tested

· to afford training

· to sponsor an athlete so that he might bring glory to his country

· to prove ample opportunities for athletes

· to prove one’s prowess

· to played within the context of a religious festival

· to crown the victor with a wreath of olive leaves

· to be held in honour of

· pentathlon = a five-event match

· chariot race / biathlon

· sanctuary

· to continue athlete traditions

· competitors

· to match skill and endurance (in a series of contests called the Olympic Games)

· to foster the idea of a “sound mind in a sound body”

· to promote friendship among nations

· to be banned / cancelled

· to be revived / to be resumed / to be restored

· to force cancellation of the Olympics

· to be discontinued

Have we lost an ancient idea of sport

· an image of man after which individuals are striving

· harmony is in an inseparable part of this image

· to be well developed in body and mind

· to be expected

· to reach for harmony through sport

· to exercise one’s body

· to be flexible both physically and mentally

· to be an aim in itself

· to be obsessed with stop-watches and centimetres with the breaking of records and competitions

· to be popularized and broadcast by the media

· to live more in harmony with ourselves and others

· we seem to have lost the Ancient Greek idea of sport altogether

· to bring one to the stands

· to campaign for years to gain recognition

· to gain more and more publicity

· body and mind are closely interrelated

· to be a complete all-rounder at school

· to be outstanding in the sports field

· to hold the record for a number of track events

· to jump over a wooden horse

· to be able to cope with any obstacle in life

· determination

· to over-generalize

· success in life does(not) depend(s) on success in sport

· to cope with the demands of the game

· to learn to cope with life

· games make us competitive

· competitive games make us inconsiderate encouraging to us to think only about ourselves

· to deal with

· to deal with our own selves

· to accept a defeat

· to be on no avail

· sport-related injuries

· sport-related death

· to lead up to / to entail / to involve

· strangulation

· back and neck strain

· to impair the immune system

· to weaken the body’s ability to fight the infection

Extreme sports

· to do extreme sports

· to risk one’s life for a short adrenaline buzz

· to end up being addicted to it

· to end up liking it

· to show how strong and courageous one is

· to be addicted to safety

· to be dying to do Base-jumping

· a relatively new sport

· to leap from stationary objects and deploy a parachute

· it’s a f ling nothing can be compared to in a short period of time you experience so much

· to be obsessed (with)

· it’s pretty dangerous

· to find a perfect escape in skydiving my personal problems go away, and when I get back to real life the don’t seem that bad any more

· to be an ultimate thrill and a real pleasure

· to share the same passion

· to abandon

Sport / moral stand

· to sprint to a gold medal

· to be stripped of one’s gold, record and dignity

· to be on some substance

· to be suspended for drug violation

· a serious relaxation of drug lows

· lack of ethical and moral values

· to tighten drug regulations in sport

· to take testosterone to increase muscular size and strength

· to be frantic to succeed

· to be prepared to do anything

· to fill one’s body with performances in chancing

· to ignore the grave risk of side effects

· to self-destruct

· the fault lies not with the athlete but with the administrators

Sports

Talking points

1. What are most popular sports a) in our country, b) in Britain? Can you name any traditional sports, games or competitions?

2. What sports should be developed? Why? What new events would you include in the Olympic Games?

3. Do you think physical training lessons necessary for teenagers? Is it better to do some special training in your favourite sport?

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