Fill in the blanks with the names of sports

Darts, aerobics, rugby, football, tennis, golf, cricket, bingo, snooker, hockey, polo, skittles, basketball

1. … - an outdoor game, popular in Britain, played in summer with a small ball covered with red leather, a bat, and wickets by two teams of 11 players each, usually dressed all in white. One team tries to get runs while the other team fields. The ball is bowled at stumps and a batsman tries to hit it with a bat. The bowler`s intention is to end the batsman`s turn, which can be done in any of ten ways: the commonest are to hit his stumps with the ball, and for a member of the bowler`s team to catch the ball after the batsman has hit it. The batsman`s intention is to score runs, which he does by running from one end of the wicket to the other, typically after hitting the ball.

2. … a game played by two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a large ball into an open-ended net fixed high on a hoop at the opponents end of the court.

… takes its name from … School in Midlands. In 1823, a boy playing football at the school picked up the ball and ran with it.

There are two types of …: in … Union there are teams of 15 players, who are amateurs and it is played by England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. There are regular matches between these countries.

In … League, which has slightly different rules there are 13 players in a team, the players are all professionals and is played mainly in the north of England, where it is originated, and is increasingly popular spectator sport.

3. … - type of football. It is played with an oval ball and players can both kick or run with it.

4. … a game played between two teams of players on horseback, who hit a small ball with long-handled wooden hammers. … is a game which is played and watched especially by very rich and fashionable people, including the Prince of Wales, and is seen as a glamorous and exciting sport.

5. … - also Association …a game that is played between two teams of 11 players using a round ball that is kicked but not handled. Synonym: soccer.

6. … - an outdoor game in which the player tries to hit a small hard ball into a series of 9 or 18 holes using as few strikes as possible. … is traditionally said to have been invented in Scotland and the Scottish king James VI made it fashionable in England when he came in London.

For many amateur players a game of … and the activities of the … club are an important part of middle class social life.

7. … a form of very active physical exercise which is usually done in class with music and is intended to strengthen the heart and lungs. It is especially popular with women and is considered by many people to be a fashionable form of exercise. In the morning people follow fitness classes shown on TV.

8. … - a game for two people or two pairs of people who use rackets to hit a small soft ball backwards and forwards across a low net dividing a specially marked court.

9. … a popular gambling game. It is normally played in halls and conventional cinemas. Players buy cards printed with rows of numbers and cross out the numbers as they are called at random. The winner is the first player to cross out all the numbers in his or her card. In recent years it has also been possible to play … by filling in similar cards published in popular papers. In Britain … is generally thought of as a game played by working class women in the evening.

10. … a game played on ice by two teams of eleven players each, with curved sticks and a small hard ball.

11. … a British game in which a player tries to knock down … (bottle-shaped objects) by throwing or rolling the ball or other objects at them.

12. … a game invented by the British in India in 1875 and played on a table covered in green cloth with 15 red balls, six balls of other colours, and a white ball. One hits the white ball with a cue (a long stick) onto the coloured balls, in a particular order, so that they fall into any of six pockets (holes) round the table in order to make points. It is played especially by men and is very popular in Britain.

13. … an indoor game popular in pubs and working men`s clubs. Short, weighted steel … with a feathered base, are thrown at a circular cork board (… board) marked out in numbered sections. The aim is to score a particular number of points, usually 301 or 501.

Notes:

· wickets – воротца

· run - очко

· stump – спица крикетных ворот

· at random – наугад

· cork board – щит из пробкового дерева