Exercise 4. How many indoor and outdoor sports and games can you name? EXAMPLE. Indoor games are… OR Boxing is indoor sport.
Exercise 5. What do we call people who
• play football, cricket, rugby, tennis
• judo, weight lifting
• go swimming, jumping, running, windsurfing, mountaineering, potholing
• ride a bike
There are answers at the end of the post!
Exercise 6. Say what the sportsmen do
EXAMPLE. A boxer boxes.
a skater, a swimmer, a boxer, a skier, a wrestler, a footballer, a speedskater, a fencer, a chess-player, a tennis-player, an athlete, a goal-keeper, a draughtsman, a cyclist, a gymnast
Exercise 7. What do we call a person who
goes in for cycling, swimming, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, athletics, skating, skiing, yachting, playing tennis (football, hockey, chess and draughts).
Exercise 8. Correct the wrong sentences.
1. Football is popular in almost all the countries in the world.
2. If you want to play hockey you must have a puck and a stick.
3. People who played chess are called chessmen.
4. The referee acts as a goal keeper in football.
5. There is no difference between tennis and table tennis.
6. Tennis is a game in which two or four players strike a tennis ball with rackets over a net.
7. Every player dreams of losing a game.
8. Draughts is an outdoor game.
Exercise 9. Say what equipment is necessary for going in different sports and games:
EXAMPLE: Skis, ski-poles and ski-boots are necessary for skiing.
• “A racket and a shuttlecock are …”
• “ A stick and a pluck are …”
• “A goal and a ball are …”
• “A net and a ball are …”
• “A yacht……”
• “A windsurfing board….”
• “Swords are….. ”
• “A bow [bou] and arrows….”
• “Darts and dartboard….”
• “A cue, a table and balls….”
• “ Draughts and draught board…..”
Exercise 10. Guess usual sports. Say what we call it.
1. A game in which two teams of five players each try to score goals by throwing a large ball through a net fixed to a metal ring at each end of the court. They players bounce the ball while running, and pass it to each other.
2. A game in which two teams hit a large ball with their hands, backwards and forwards over a high net. The ball is not allowed to bounce on the ground.
3. A game played between two teams of 11 players who kicks a ball round a field trying to score a goal.
4. A game of two players who each start with sixteen playing pieces to move on a board. The aim is two move your pieces so that your opponent’s king will be taken.
5. A game in which the players use rackets to hit a small feathered object called a shuttlecock over a high net.
6. A game in which you use long sticks called clubs to hit a small hard ball into holes that are spread out over a large area of grassy land.
Exercise 11. Guess usual sports. Say what we call it:
• It’s the sport of riding a small sort boat with a sail.
• It’s the sport in which acrobats and gymnasts jump up and down to perform exercises on a sheet of material tightly stretched (крепко прикрепленный) to a metal frame (раме).
• It is jumping from an airplane with a parachute.
• The sport of climbing down inside large holes which go deep underground in a rocky country.
• It is a sport of climbing mountains.
• It is a sport of flying kites.
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