Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

футбольную команду «Спартак». 7. Наша игра закончилась вничью. 8. Он охотно будет

тренировать нас в фехтовании. 9. Вы занимаетесь легкой атлетикой? 10. Виндсерфинг и

дельтапланеризм появились совсем недавно. 11. Мальчик мечтает стать хоккеистом и просит

купить ему клюшку и шайбу. 12. Сколько человек примут участие в институтском шахматном

чемпионате? 13. Разве вы не хотели бы завоевать кубок в этом соревновании? 14. Кто первый

забил гол? 15. Вы пойдете на этот матч? 16. Стрельба из лука стала достаточно популярным

видом спорта. 17. Никто не ожидал, что они выиграют со счетом 2:0. 18. Ему хорошо дается

фигурное катание. 19. Женщины не играют в футбол, правда? — Играют, но редко. 20. Кто

завоевал первенство вашего института по шашкам? — Один из наших первокурсников. 21. Не

стоит вступать больше чем в два спортивных кружка одновременно. 22. Я предпочитаю

художественную гимнастику любому другому виду спорта. 23. Мы не сможем с вами

соревноваться, мы недостаточно подготовлены. 24. Вы собираетесь участвовать в

соревнованиях по гребле? — Обязательно. 25. Я уверен, что игра закончится вничью. 25. У

нас прекрасный зал и все возможности для хорошей физической подготовки.

IX. Correct the wrong statements. Add a few more sentences to make up a

dialogue:

1. There is no difference between "soccer" and "rugby". 2. Badminton can be played only

indoors. 3. The goal-keeper acts as a judge in football. 4. Ice hockey is popular with women. 5. A

tennis ball is struck with a club. 6. Women are good football players as a rule. 7. People who play

draughts are called draughtsmen. 8. We use balls when playing badminton. 9. Golf is played on ice

fields. 10. Hockey is one of the most popular summer games. 11. Table-tennis and lawn-tennis are

one and the same game. 12. In hockey a handball and rackets are used. 13. Boxers fight with bare

hands. 14. Track and field events are never included in Olympic Games. 15. You may touch the ball

with your hands when playing football.

Prompts: I just don't agree...; I'm not so sure...; All I know is... but at least...; How can you

say such a thing! You seem to think that...; That is just the other way round. You are badly mistaken.

X. Try to describe your favourite game. Use a dictionary to look up any special

words. Let your partners guess which game you are describing. Speak according to

the plan that is given in the example:

E x a m p l e:

1. Number of players (per team):

Two teams of eleven players each.

2. Equipment necessary:a ball.

Each player wears shorts and special boots.

3. Place where played:a special field which has goal posts at both ends.

4. How to play and win:the players kick the ball to each other. They try to kick it between

the goal posts of the opposing team. The opposing team try to stop them, The team scoring the

greatest number of "goals" wins.

5. Length of game:one hour and a half, with a break in the middle.

6. Some of the rules:only the two goal-keepers (who stand in front of the two goals) are

allowed to touch the ball with their hands; no one can kick or push another player.

(See "Approaches," Cambndge, 1979)

XI. a) Speak on each kind of sport on the list below; briefly describe it as well

as the qualities it requires from the sportsman, е.g. strength, endurance, quickness

of reaction, courage, etc. Say a few words about its advantages and attractive

features:

mountaineering, rowing, yachting, hockey, tennis, basket-ball, volley-ball, chess, boxing,

wrestling, fencing, artistic gymnastics, figure-skating, skiing, skating, ski-jumping, sky-diving,

archery, discus throwing, wind-surfing, steeplechase, marathon.

b) Make up dialogues discussing one (or several) of the sports from the list

above. Use the following:

in my opinion ...; there's nothing like ...; I don't quite see what people find in ...; how can you

say such a thing!; I don't know anything more exciting than ...; I see nothing exciting in ...; I can't

agree with you there; absolutely marvellous; I like it immensely.

XII. a) Read the text and comment on it:

Hang Gliding The Sport of the 1980s

Hang gliding, like windsurfing, comes from America. The person who thought of this sport,

Francis Rogallo, got the idea when he was watching space capsules falling towards the sea. The

capsules had a sort of wing which helped them to go more slowly until they reached the sea.

But this idea isn't as new as you might think: in the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinchi

drew pictures of a hang glider; it was a sort of kite which could carry a person.

The modern hang glider can go with the wind or against it, and the pilot can change direction

by moving the control bar. Hang gliders rise and fall with the movements in the air — near lulls, for

example, they usually go up.

All over the world, these giant butterflies are becoming more and more popular, as people

discover the fun of flying.

(From "Modern English International".

Mozaika, 1984, No. 264)

b) What do you know of the kinds of sport which recently appeared! Describe

them and say what attracts people in them.

XIII. Act out the following situations:

1. Two friends are talking after a football match. One is happy — his favourite team has won;

the other is not as his team has lost the match.

2. Imagine a dialogue between two sports fans about their favourite sports.

3. A friend of yours claims to be an "all-round sportsman". Once you call on him and find

him surrounded by a thick cloud of cigarette smoke. You have a talk with him.

4. It's Sunday afternoon. In a few minutes, there will be a football match on TV, while on

another channel there will be a fashion show. Argument between husband and wife.

5. You are in the hall of your institute. You are an ardent athlete and like to get up at sunrise,

at which your room-mate is grumbling. You try to make him do at least his morning exercises.

XIV. Translate into English:

1. Я, кажется, знаю этого человека. Он был когда-то отличным бегуном, а теперь он

тренирует молодых спортсменов. 2. Неужели правда, что он не принимал участия в игре на