SPORT

Divide the words into the following categories:

sports venues: 

people:

verbs: 

captain, stadium, lose, score, warm up, slope, sports hall, beat, pitch, pool, get injured, circuit, win, coach, fan, track,  spectators, court, course, referee, team, draw, get fit, train

Give definitions of the words from the previous exercise.

Remember

a circuit

a track

a golf course

a basketball court

a tennis court

a football/rugby/hokey pitch

a slope 

Answer the questions:

Are you good at sports? 
Do you think everyone should practice sports?
Speak about the last sporting event you saw. HOw many spectators were there? What happened? 
Why is it important to warm up before you do sports?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a professional athlete? 

Watch the first part of the commercial.

• ·         What is the girl’s dream?
• ·         What do you think is going to happen next?

      Watch the second part of the commercial

•               How do you think the girl is feeling? Do you think she's going to give up classes?

Watch the next part part.

• What qualities helped the girl to achieve her goal?

Watch the next part part and speak about what happened. 

Watch the whole video and write a story based on the commercial. What do you think the commercial teaches us? 

Look at the pictures and the names of sports and try to guess what sportsmen have to do. Try to use a variety of tenses. 

Oil wrestling

Bed Racing

Zorbing

Extreme Ironing

Wife Carrying Competition

Chess boxing

Complete the texts with the names of the sports.

·         … is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the participants are covered in olive oil. They try to wrestle each other to the ground – maybe not everyone’s idea of fun. The wrestlers wear a type of leather trousers called a kisbet.

Originally, matches had no set duration and could go on for one or two days until one man was able to establish his superiority, but in 1975 the duration was established at 40 minutes and 30 minutes (depending on the category).

The annual tournament which has been held in Edirne in Turkey since 1346, is one of the oldest sporting competition in the world. Oil wrestling festivals also take place in northern Greece in the Eastern Macedonia. In recent years, this style of wrestling has also become popular in other countries, particularly the Netherlands and Japan.

·         …   is a sport of rolling downhill inside a ball (called orb), generally made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope, but can also be done on a flat surface. Zorbing can also be carried out on water, provided the orb is inflated properly and sealed once the rider is inside. "Water walking" using such orbs has become popular in theme parks across the UK. There are two types of orbs, harnessed and non-harnessed.

·         … is an extreme sport. People who play this unusual sport go to a remote location and iron clothes! They call themselves ‘ironists’, and get a thrill from taking their ironing board, unplugged iron and some of their wrinkly clothes to some extreme places and photograph themselves doing it. Such places that they have reached include underwater,  steep cliffs, and on top of vehicles.

·         … takes part each year in Knaresborough - North Yorkshire and  attracts thousands of spectators. The first race in 1965 was only open to Army, Navy and American Marines, but now the competition is open to anyone.The competitors race in teams of five, plus one on the bed. Each team must provide their own bed, decorated in the theme for the year. The bed runs on four wheels, but also need to be able to float. The 3km run race begins and ends at Conyngham Hall. At the end of the race the teams face the final challenge – crossing a river.

·         … is a hybrid sport that combines chess with boxing in alternating rounds. The sport was invented by French artist and filmmaker Enki Bilal in his comic book Froid Équateur in 1992. The first real event of chess-boxing was organized by Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh in 2003. Chess boxing is a fast growing sport. A Chess Boxing match between two individuals lasts up to eleven rounds, starting with a four minute chess round and followed by two minutes of boxing.

·         … is a sport in which male competitors race carrying a female teammate. It is held annually in Finland in early July. The course includes various surfaces and getting through dry land and water based obstacles. The prize to the winner is a mobile phone, and more importantly they also win their wife’s weight in beer.

Discussion

Would you like to take part in any of these sports? Why/ Why not?

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