Today we'll speak thout Sport. Sport plays an important part English people. All sports are very popular in Britain. The Pritish are proud that many sport
originated in their country and then spread throughout the world
British sports are football, cricket table tennis, lawn tennis, racing and darts. Football is the most popular game in the world. There are two kinds of it in Britain association football (soccer) and rugby. Soocer played almost in all countries remains one of the most popular games in Great Britain Rugby football originated in
Rugby public school In this game players may carry the ball Rugby is played by
teams of 15 men with an oval ball
Golf, one of the most popular sports in Britain, originated in Scotland
Englishmen are fond of cricket. It is played in schools, colleges, universities.
Matches with other countries are held regulary
Cricket is a slow game.
Table tennis originated in England in 1880. But the British players are not lucky in
tennis international championship
Englishmen like all kinds of racing. Horse-racing, motor-car racing, bout-racing,
dog-racing. donkey-racing are very popular in England. The most famous boat. race in
England is between Oxford and Cambridge. It first started in 1820 and has been held
almost every spring since 1836. A lot of people come to watch it.
2. Say if it is true (T) or false (F).
1) Some kinds of sport are very popular in England.
2) Lawn tennis is one of the national British sports.
3) There are not different kinds of football in Britain.
4) There are two teams of fifteen men in rugby.
5) Englishmen hate cricket.
6) People like to watch the game between Oxford and Cambridge.
3. Give the answer to the questions.
1) What are the national British sports?
2) What kinds of football are there in Britain?
3) How many players are there in a rugby team?
4) Is golf one of the most popular sports in Britain?
5) What kinds of racing do Englishmen like?
Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut in the world. Yuri Alex-eyevich Gagarin was born on the 9th of March, 1934. He was born in the village of Klushino in the Smolensk region.
Yura was an active, brave and curious boy. His father was jack of all trades and he helped his son when Yura made toy planes by hand. But the war began. Yuri Gagarin and his mother, father, brother and sister left their house and had to live in a dug-out. After the war Gagarin's family moved to Gzhatsk. Now it is Gagarin. It was named after the first cosmonaut.
In 1951 Gagarin graduated from a vocational school in Lyubertsy near Moscow.
Yuri Gagarin attended an aeroclub and began to fly when he was a student of a technical secondary school in Saratov.
In 1955 he entered a school for pilots. Then he became a pilot and joined the first group of cosmonauts.
In 1960 Gagarin began to prepare for the flight into space.
On April 12,1961 Yuri Gagarin flew into space and spent 108 minutes there. It was the first time in history that the Russian spaceship "Vostok" with the man on board was in space. After his flight he visited many countries and saw millions of people. Gagarin became a Hero of our country.
He died in 1968, but people always remember the first Russian cosmonaut.