Sports in our life

ДЕРЖАВНИЙ ВИЩИЙ НАВЧАЛЬНИЙ ЗАКЛАД

"ЗАПОРІЗЬКИЙ НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ"

МІНІСТЕРСТВА ОСВІТИ І НАУКИ УКРАЇНИ

Л.І. Шавровська, В.В. Ясунас

Методичні рекомендації

З розвитку вмінь і навичок усної та письмової англійської мови

Для студентів І курсу спеціальності «Фізичне виховання»

Затверджено

Вченою радою ЗДУ

Протокол №2 від 26.10.2004

Запоріжжя

Lesson 1

Sports in our life

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 diffefavourite as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Pjer Corda, but I rent classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volley-ball, football, bodybuilding, etc.

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

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

Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country but football, gymnastics 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 a person in a good form. I have been playing tennis for 5 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 is a great distance between my manner of playing and such favourites as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Per Korda, but I do my training with great pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.s

Vocabulary:

all over the world – в усьому світі

to be fond of – любити, захоплюватись

healthy – здоровий

to keep fit – підтримувати гарну форму, бути у формі

personal initiative – особова ініціатива

necessary facilities – необхідне знаряддя

to pay much attention to – приділяти велику увагу

daily activity – щоденна діяльність

a compulsory subject – обов’язковий предмет

to enjoy popularity – набути популярність

to take part in competitions – брати участь у змаганнях

a great distance – велика відстань

I. Answer the following questions:

1. Why are people all over the world fond of sports and games?

2. What kind of sports do people go in for?

3. What sports facilities are sportsmen provided with?

4. What is a part of children’s daily activity in the kindergartens?

5. Where is physical culture a compulsory subject?

6. What kinds of sports enjoy the greatest popularity in our country?

7. What does table tennis need?

8. What famous tennis players do you know?

II. Insert prepositions:

1. Sportsmen take part ___ Olympic Games.

2. Sports unite people ___ different countries.

3. We are students ____the faculty ___ physical culture.

4. ____ winter we have holidays ____ one week.

5. Do you come _____ University ____ time?

6. Physical culture is compulsory subject ____ schools and kindergartens.

7. I go ____ gymnastics. It keeps me ____ a good form.

8. They play tennis _____ sports grounds.

9. I always take part _____ competitions.

10. My little sister goes _____ school.

III. Insert articles where necessary:

1. This is ____ clock.

2. She is my ___ sister.

3. This is ___ Kyiv.

4. Kyiv is ___ big city.

5. This is____room..

6. Is ___ newspaper in ___ bag?

7. Is ___ teacher in ____ classroom?

8. ___ children we saw in ___ street are schoolchildren.

9. She lives in ___ Gorky Street.

10. Gymnastics is ___ part of children’s daily activities.

IV. Fill in the blanks with the required forms of the verb to be in the Present Indefinite Tense:

1. I ___ twenty.

2. They ____ sportsmen.

3. He ____ a boxer.

4. She ____ a swimmer.

5. I ____ a student of the University.

6. She ____ a very good friend..

7. Many students of our University ____ Masters of Sport.

8. They ____ very busy in summer.

9. One of my friends ___ fond of football. Indeed, it ____ the most popular kind of sports.

10. I ____ glad to hear that she ____ well.

11. My uncle _____ a postgraduate.

V. Translate into English:

1. Моя бабуся – вчителька. 2. Нас не було вдома вчора. 3. Ми зараз у спортзалі. 4. Ти був вчора у театрі? – Ні, не був. Я був хворий. 5. Вони не були з нами на стадіоні вчора. 6. Ви будете вдома завтра? – Так, а що? 7. Це довгі тексти, а ті тексти короткі. 8. Цей олівець не чорний, він червоний. 9. Весна – це чудова пора року. 10. Його звуть Том чи Тед?

VI. Use personal pronouns in the correct form:

1. ___ at my room now. 2. ___ often meets his friends at the University. 3. ___ do our home task in the evening. 4. ___ always helps her mother about the house. 5. ___ sometimes have our training lessons on the sports grounds. 6. Do ____ keep your books in order? 7. ___ ask our coach many questions at our training lessons. 8. ___ seldom miss my English lessons. 9. ___ likes to do her morning exercises to music. 10. ____ make few mistakes in their English dictations.

VII. Translate into English:

1. Моя родина не дуже велика. Нас четверо в родині: тато, мати, брат і я. Моєму батькові 40 років. Він оператор ЕВМ. Моїй мамі 38 років. Вона вчителька. Мій брат і я – близнюки. Нам 18 років. Ми обидва студенти. Мій брат студент факультету іноземних мов, а я студентка факультету фізичного виховання. Мої друзі – студенти Медичної Академії.

VIII. Read and translate the dialogue:

A: Do you go in for any kind of sports?

B: It goes without saying. You can’t imagine how many sports I tried to go in for. When I was 5 my parents took me to the swimming – pool. But I was afraid of water and my parents’ wish to make me a good swimmer failed.

A: So, you can’t swim, You can’t enjoy your self going to the sea or to the river?

B: You are mistaken. When I became older I did my best to learn to swim. To be exact my father helped me: one fine summer day he threw me off the boat and I had nothing else to do but to swim. Later I began to play football.

A: I guess you belong to some famous football club. Or is it any amateur team?

B: Surely, I was trained by a coach in the sports club. I even took part in some competitions and was a good goal-keeper. But one of my friends told me about boxing and soon. I tried myself on the rink.

A: How long did it last?

B: Not very long. Then I went in for basketball, and now I am fond of fencing.

A: My Lord! You can do everything: run, jump, swim, play football, box …what not!

IX. Learn the following Proverbs and Sayings:

A sound mind in a sound body. A healthy mind in a healthy body – У здоровому тілі здоровий дух.

Health is better than wealth – Найбільше багатство – здоров’я.

In sports and journeys men are known – Люди пізнаються у змаганнях і мандрах.