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SPORTS AND GAMES

Sport is popular among young and old people all over the world. It is an exiting creative sphere of hard work and competition. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit.

Many people do morning exercises, jog in the morning and train themselves in clubs in different sections and take part in sport competitions. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming, volley-ball, football, body-building, etc. Sport makes a person's character.

It's a way to meet other people. Sport unites people of different classes and nationalities.

From time to time international championships and races (horse-races, motor-races, cycle-races) take place. Representatives of various countries can win a gold, silver or bronze medal. Such great championships in sport are organized every four years and we call them Olympic Games. Only the best may take part in them.

Everybody chooses a kind of sports he or she is interested in. All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields. Every week thousands of people do sports and millions watch sports programmes on TV, read sport news in newspapers and listen to sport reports on the radio. Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments.

Physical training is an important subject at school. Pupils have got physical training lessons twice a week. Boys and girls play volley-ball and basket-ball at the lessons.

A lot of different competitions are held at schools, a great number of pupils take part in them. Sport teaches how to lose as well as to win.

Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our republic. There are different sporting societies, clubs and complexes.

All the year round many people indulge in boxing, wrestling, athletics, gymnastics and track and field events.

Among indoor games the most popular are billiards, chess, table tennis, draughts and some others. The most popular outdoor sports are football, hockey, figure-skating, swimming, boating, yachting, cycling, gliding and many other sports.

15. Answer the questions:

1. What is sport?

2. Why do people go in for sports?

3. What facilities are provided for sportsmen?

4. Are there different sporting societies, clubs and complexes in your country (city)? What are they?

5. Do you like sport?

6. What proves that much attention is paid to organized sports?

7. Do Russians take part in the Olympics?

8. What are the sports which are played all over the world?

9. What are the indoor games?