Устная тема: “Gymnastics: apparatus, elements”

Билет 14

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст “Sports in BrItain ” на русский язык.

Sports in BrItain

England is a sports-loving nation and when they are neither playing nor watching games they like to talk about them and to discuss the major sporting competitions as the greatest events of the day.

If you ask the British to name their most favorite sports they may name football, cricket and tennis, though many of them go in for golf and hockey, athletics and climbing, rugby and rowing. Horse-racing, dog-racing and motor racing are also among the most popular sports in Great Britain.

Britain invented and developed many of the sports and games which are now played all over the world. Association football, or “soccer’, is one of them. As an organized game it appeared in the middle of the 19th century, but in fact the game is much older. Probably Roman soldiers brought it to England 2000 years ago. Most British cities and towns have a football team. Every year each team plays in the Football Association Competitions. The two best teams play in the Cup Final at the Wembley Stadium near London which holds 100.000 spectators. Some fans pay up to 250 for a ticket for the Cup Final. It is one of the biggest sporting events of the year.

Another popular game appeared in 1859, when a teacher at Rugby school, while playing football, decided that it would be better to pick up the ball and run with it. That is why the game took the name of rugby or “rugger”. The rules of the game are different from football. There are 15 or 13 players instead of 11 in a team. The ball is oval, not round and a player is allowed to take the ball in his hands and run with it. He may also attack his opponent, hold him by the shoulders or by the legs. Rugby is a violent game and it is highly popular in many regions of the country especially in Wales.

a) What is sport number one in Great Britain?

b) What game originated from football and now differs greatly from it?

2. Выполните грамматическое упражнение по теме “Страдательный залог” ”(из самостоятельной работы).

Раскройте скобки и поставьте правильную форму глагола.

1) The patient... (to operate) on tomorrow.

2) Australia... (to discover) by captain Cook.

3) Nowadays basketball... (to play) all over the world.

4) The toothbrush... (to invent) in the fifteenth century.

5) This bridge... (already/ to reconstruct).

1. A new hospital (build) now.

2. A good film (show) on TV tomorrow.

3. All letters (write) by tomorrow morning.

4. The office (clean) at the moment.

5. The window (break) down yesterday.

Устная тема: “From the history of Olympic Games”.

Билет 15

1. Прочитайте и переведите текст “Popular English Sports and Games”на русский язык ”(из самостоятельной работы).

Popular English Sports and Games

Cricket is England’s national summer game. It appeared in the 18th century though nobody knows exactly how old the game is. Some form of cricket was played in England in the 13th century. Cricket is a typically British sport. The game looks slow but it can be exciting if you understand what’s going on. There are two teams of eleven players: one man (the “bowler”) throws the ball and the “batsman” hits it with his bat. Cricket is a very long game. The most important matches can last from one to five days.

Golf is another kind of sports that is truly British. It is not known for certain where this game came from, but the word “golf” is Dutch. The game is played by striking a ball with a special golf club round a golf course with 18 holes. The golf player should push the ball into a hole in the ground with as few strokes as possible. You need a special field for this game, so golf is rather expensive. Now it is played mostly in private clubs and is the sport of the rich.

Lawn tennis was also born in England at the end of the 19th century. The game soon spread all over the world. The number of people who play lawn tennis is great. Some join a tennis club, but most find a partner and go to one of the public courts that can be hired for a very small payment. Every summer, in June, the biggest international tennis tournament takes place at Wimbledon near London.