Olympic Games
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (11 класс) по теме

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Открытый урок по теме: История Олимпийских Игр. Выполнили: учителя английского языка Самсонова Надежда Николаевна, Декатова Любовь Михайловна СОШ № 97, гор. Уфа, Башкортостан История Олимпиад

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Long ago ancient Greeks often waged wars. Small states suffered and lost much ever if they did not take any side and stayed out of wars. The ruler of such a small state, Elis, wanted to live in piece with all neighbours. He was a good diplomat because his negotiations were successful and Elis was recognized a neutral state. To celebrate this achievement, he organized athletic games . In the beginning this feast lasted one day, but later a whole month was devoted to it. All wars were stopped by special heralds who rode in all directions of Greece. An ancient time

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The games were held every four years in Olympia on the territory of Elis. This four-year period was called the Olympic year or the Olympiad. The first games which later were called the Olympic Games were held about a thousand years before our era. Usually the Olympic Games began before the middle of the summer. Best athletes arrived from many Greek states to Olympia to compete in running, long jumping, throwing of discus and javelin and wrestling. In the course of time first fighting( boxing) and chariot races were also included in the Games. SPORTS AND GAMES

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The Olympic Fire

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Games in gymnasiums and promised to compete honestly and keep the rules of the sacred Olympics. The athletes took part in all kind of competitions. Winners were called “ olympionics ”, they were awarded olive wreaths and cups of the olive oil. This tradition has survived. In our time sportsmen often get cups and wreaths for winning the first place in sports competitions. The olimpionics of ancient Greece became very popular. Best craftsmen were chosen to make honourary cups, many poets wrote and recited in public poems about the best athletes. Sculptors made their statues which were put up at the birthplace of the winners.

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The Olympic Games were accompanied by arts festivals. Poets recited their poems, singers sang hymns, dancers danced and orators pronounced speeches- all this in honour of the scared Games. Only men could take part in the Olympic Games. Women were not allowed even watch the competitions at the stadium under the fear of death penalty. There was a single exception, when the woman coached her son and accompanied him to the stadium in men’s clothes. That brave women was spared the penalty, because her son excelled in many events. But from that time all athletes and their coaches had to compete without any clothes.

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Only men took part in the Games

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Magnificent strong bodies inspired artists and sculptors. They painted wall pictures and made statues of marble and bronze, so now we can admire the corporal beauty of ancient and eternally young discuss thrower , javelin bearer and others. The Olympic Games had been held for about eleven hundred years, until the emperor Theodosius banned them for religious reasons in 394 A.D. The revival of the Olympic Games began long time afterwards, in 1892, when young French teacher Pierre de Coubertin made a public speech before the Union of French sports clubs in Paris. At that time many people in many countries practiced various kinds of sports and games. They wanted to make friends and compete with sportsmen from other lands. Pierre de Coubertin understood the importance of sports which unified peoples of the world and served the cause of peace like in ancient time. Importance of sport

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On the 23 rd of June 1894 the International Congress of the amateur sportsmen made an important decision : to revive the Olympic Games and to establish the International Olympic Committee which would be responsible for the administration of the modern Olympic Games. The first Committee consisted of the 12 members. Now more than 100 members of the International Olympic Committee control the affairs of 150 member countries which joined the Olympic movement. The first Olympic of the modern times were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Thousands of spectators watched the historical event when after fifteen hundred years the Games of the first modern Olympiad were announced open. The first Games saw the competitions in nine kinds of sports: athletics, swimming, gymnastics, weight lifting, wrestling, tennis, fencing, cycling and shooting. Olympic Committee