Answer the questions and prepare for the discussion on the topic

1.	What is skiing?
2.	What types of sports skiing do you know?
3.	What Nordic skiing events are there?
4.	What is the origin of cross-country skiing and biathlon?
5.	When did men’s and women’s cross-country races appear in the Winter Olympic programme?
6.	What are twelve cross-country skiing events?
7.	What is biathlon?
8.	How many biathlon skiing events can you name?
9.	Since when has biathlon been a part of the Winter Olympic Games?
10.	What hills do the athletes jump from in ski jumping and Nordic combined competitions?
11.	How are Nordic combined events generally organized?
12.	What is Alpine skiing and why it has this name?
13.	What Alpine skiing events are there?
14.	When did history of the Olympic freestyle start?
15.	How is snowboarding different from freestyle or Alpine skiing?
16.	What freestyle and snowboarding events are included in the Olympic programme today?
17.	What organization is the governing body of the international skiing?
18.	What Olympic and world champions and prize-winners in skiing from Belarus do you know?