SPORT SPEAKS ENGLISH

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CONTENTS Introduction Sports in our life Sports in Great Britain My favourite sport Literature

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Introduction Sport is probably as the humanity itself. All over the world people of different ages are very fond of sports and games. Sport not only helps people to become strong and to develop physically but also makes them more organized and better disciplined in their daily activities. It makes a healthy mind in a healthy body. Sports help people to keep in good health.

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Sports in our life Sport is the best and the shortest way to health and fitness. Today increasing number of people are involved in activities that help them keep fit and enjoy life. Physical recreation includes cycling , boating , jogging , walking. To keep fit some people attend special classes or take part in aerobics or yoga , do some kind of weight training in a gym. Others play football , badminton , tennis.

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Sports in our life But tastes differ and different people prefer to participate in them actively others choose to watch different sports events. Watching other people playing is a popular leisure activity. People like to watch national and international sports events that are shown on TV. In many countries there are special TV channels that broadcast sports programmes for 24 hours .

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Sports in our life Although these two kinds of activities are tightly interconnected, participating in sport has more advantages that simply watching sports competitions. Yet, it is an individual preference. And only the individual has the right to decide what is better for him. But whatever the choice is, the pleasure is undoubted.

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Sport in Great Britain Sport is very important part of life in Great Britain. Thousands of people devote their leisure time to outdoor and indoor games, athletics, cycling, mountain climbing, boxing and other sport. Horse-racing, dog-racing and motor racing are among the most popular sports in Britain. Many kinds of sport originated from England. That`s why these games and sports have English names.

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Sport in Great Britain For example Football. Football was played by the whole village teams in the middle ages in England. Now football is the most popular game in Britain. It is a team game. There are some amateur teams but most of the teams are professional ones in England. Professional football is a big business. Football is played at schools too. Rugby You can see a ball in this game, but it is not round. It is oval. This is a team game. There are fifteen players in each team. It is a popular game in England. There are many amateur rug-by football teams and there are many professional clubs.

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Sport in Great Britain Table tennis or ping – pong Englishmen heard about table tennis in 1880. Then the International Table Tennis Association was formed and the international rules were worked out. Many people like to play table tennis. This game is played by men and women. Tennis Original name lawn tennis game in which two opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court.

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Sport in Great Britain Cricket Cricket is the English national sport in summer. If you want to play cricket you must wear white boots, a white shirt and white long trousers. There are two teams. Each team has eleven players. Cricket is popular in boys' schools. Girls play cricket too. Boxing Boxing is a combat sporting which two participants (generally) of similar weight fight each other with their fists . Boxing today is conducted in a regulated way, typically in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. The winer is one who gains more points.The most of wellknown blows have English names too. They are : knock-down and knock-out.

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My favourite sport The History of volleyball Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous. Morgan called the sport “mintonette,” until a professor from Springfield College in Massachusetts noted the volleying nature of play and proposed the name of “volleyball.”

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VOLLEYBALL RULES Team hits Each team is entitled to a maximum of three hits for returning the ball over the net. These team hits include not only intentional hits by the player, but also unintentional contacts with the ball. Scoring system To win a set A set is won by the team that first scores 25 points with a minimum lead of two points. In the case of a 25-25 tie, play is continued until a two-point lead is reached (25-23) . To win a rally Whenever a team fails in its service or fails to return the ball, or commits any other fault, the opposing team wins the rally.

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My favourite sport I like sport. I like tennis, swimming, figure skating. hockey. But my favourite sport is volleyball. The game is played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, the player strike the ball by hand across a net without been aloud to touch the ground.

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My favourite sport My team I have been playing this game for 8 years. Every summer my team go to Slovakia and to Ukraine for training s I real ly en joy taking part in competitions . I can`t do without my team. Volleyball is part of my life.

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Literature Britain in Brief, Просвещение, 1993 Peter Bromhead «Life in Modern Britain», Longman, 1997 James O’Driscoll «Britain. The country and its people», Oxford University Press, 1997 200 topics English languages ("BAO-press" M. 2002)