Read, translate and retell this text in 6 sentences. Learn your retelling by heart and tell it to your teacher. You have 60 minutes to get ready

People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volleyball, football, body-building and so on.

All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sports grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields.

Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is part of children’s daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical Training is a compulsory subject at schools and colleges.

Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. In Samara, where I live, there are different sporting societies, clubs and complexes. The most famous of them are the “Locomotive”, the “Metallurg” stadiums. They are used for international and world competitions.

Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but football, hockey, gymnastic, martial arts and tennis enjoy the greatest popularity. As for me I go in for table tennis (ping-pong). It needs mobility, liveliness and much energy. It keeps in a good form. I have been playing tennis for five years, but the more I play the more I like it. I get a real joy taking part in competitions or simply playing with my friends. Sometimes I go to tennis courts.

Certainly, there’s a great distance between my manner of playing and such favourites as Maria Sharapova, Yelena Dementieva and others, but I do my training with pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.

Формы контроля самостоятельной работы:

индивидуальный опрос пересказа текстов «Healthy Way of Life» и «Sport in our life»; контроль составления собственного диалога.

Вопросы для самоконтроля по теме

1. Why is sport so important for people?

2. What sport do usually people do?

3. Which facilities are provided to do sport?

4. Which stadiums in Samara do you know?

5. Which sports enjoy the greatest popularity?

6. What sport do you do?

Theme 1.5 Hobby and interests

Основные понятия и термины по теме: hobbyist, taste, doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things, art objects.

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