СОСТАВЬТЕ 3 ЛЮБЫХ ВОПРОСА К ТЕКСТУ It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games.
Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages people in Europe, Japan and Asia all played some forms of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19th century football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University.
A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a result people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms, referees and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industrial careers.
Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball – it is never played by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions.
But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game.
One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.
The typical British weather is quite comfortable. In Britain, it is usually not as cold as in northern countries, such as Russia or Canada. In some parts of Britain, people are happy to see snow in winter. in the central and southern parts of Britain, it is usually not very cold in winter or very hot in summer. because in some parts of Britain, it sometimes rains very heavily. this doesn't happen often, but sometimes the British get a weather forecast from every sea son, and all this in one day. if you were in Britain, you would have noticed that the British talk about the weather all the time. because of the changeable weather in Britain, there is always something to talk about, even with a stranger.
Объяснение:
Перевод: Типичная британская погода вполне комфортная. В Британии обычно не так холодно, как в северных странах, например в России или Канаде. В некоторых частях Великобритании люди рады видеть зимой снег. в центральной и южной частях Британии обычно не очень холодно зимой и очень жарко летом. потому что в некоторых частях Великобритании иногда идут очень сильные дожди. такое случается нечасто, но иногда англичане получают прогноз погоды от каждого морского сына, и все это за один день. Если бы вы были в Британии, вы бы заметили, что англичане все время говорят о погоде. из-за переменчивой погоды в Британии всегда есть о чем поговорить, даже с незнакомцем.
My father older then my mother by 5 years.
They have three children.
My mother is forty years old.
Tomorrow from 8 to 9 I will call you.
By end of this year I read 2 books in English.
When he arrived at the station the train had already left.
When I came home , my mom was making dinner.
He showed you yesterday its a new picture?
She writes a letter to her friend.
They are building a house since last year.
They just came home.
Your sister has children?
I'll be here tomorrow.
What did you do yesterday?
I didn't know he speaks English very well.
English is spoken people all over the world.
English is very popular .
Work will not be completed by September
Where's the letter? It was sent.
I didn't know that he's gone to the movies.
They told us that going to the library.
I thought you had left England.
She said she would be happy to see us again.
We had hoped that he was home.