At the competition

I belong to a famous Sports club and I am on the water-polo team together with some more students from our group. We often take part in competitions. We are all good sports-group.

The last time we participated in a competition in July. It was a great sporting event in my life. The competition took place at the biggest stadium in Kyiv. It was a national championship in track-and-field athletics. Our team had trained hard for this competitions. On the first day of the competitions Lvov team proved to be the winner. On the second day the team from Kyiv showed good result and forged ahead. Shortly it moved into the lead and won the competition on points. As a result the Kyiv team became the champion of this competition. Some track-and-field athletes from Lvov showed their best results and even set up records in individual championship.

Vocabulary:

to belong – належати

to take part – приймати участь

competition – змагання

to participate – приймати участь

national championship – першість країни

track-and-field – легка атлетика

to train hard – багато тренуватися

to forge ahead – вириватися вперед

to win on points – вигравати за очками

individual championship – особиста першість

I. Answer the following questions:

1. What sports club do you belong to?

2. What team are you on?

3. What do you often take part in?

4. When did you participate in a competition last?

5. Where did the competition take place?

6. How did you train before the competition?

7. What team proved to be the winner on the first day?

8. What did the team from Kyiv win the competition in?

9. Whose track-and-field athletes set up records in individual championship?

II. Insert prepositions wherever necessary:

1. Physical culture and sport came___everyday life ___ the people. 2. Both girls and boys who want to participate ___ the contest must come tomorrow. 3. Many __ the books that I read last month belong ___ my friend. 4. ___ two o’clock tomorrow we shall repeat the grammar material ___ the exam. 5. We had dinner ___ 3 o’clock yesterday. 7. Boxers usually practise ___ boxing halls. 8. The students ___ our University take up different kinds ___ sport. 9. ____ wet days we usually have our training lessons in sports halls. 10. A warming - up period lasts ___ 20 minutes.

III. Insert articles wherever necessary:

1. ___ milk is necessary for children. 2. After ___ dinner we went home. 3. It happened nearly ___ year ago. 4. ___ British drive on ___ left-hand side in their country. 5. We did our homework and then played ___ tennis yesterday. 6. I went to ___ library of Foreign Literature last ___ week. 7. Is there ___ river or ___ wood near ___ place where you live? 8. ___ largest and deepest ocean in ___ world is ___ Pacific Ocean. 9. Did you go to ____ Dnipro for ___ holiday last summer? 10. ___ Caucasus is famous for its ___ holiday centres.

IV. Insert some, any, no, every:

1. There are ___ schools in this street. 2. Dinner was ready yet so she gave the children ___bread and butter. 3. Does you friend know ___ foreign language? 4. There is ___ tea in my cup. 5. There are ___ people in the streets because it is cold. 6. Are there ___ mistakes in my dictation? 7. Were there ___ foreign teams at the last competitions? 8. I have some letters for you but they are Without ___ addresses. 9. I would like ___ more coffee. 10. There aren’t ___ cakes left, so we’ll have to buy ___ more.