Be a Good Sport

Аудирование

I. Прослушайте тексты и догадайтесь, о каком виде спорта идет речь.
1. Tennis 4. Basketball
2. Golf 5. Polo
3. Volleyball

II. Выберите правильный вариант ответа.
1. On the 5th of October in a cluster football match …
a) both teams won
b) both teams lost
c) A team won and B team lost
2. The football match took place …
a) at Symondsbury
b) at Powerstock
c) at Liverpool
3. After the match they had … in the hut
a) mineral water and salads
b) juice and biscuits
c) soup and roast chicken
4. The players in this match were…
a) Fred, Ben, Tom, Sam, Rhia, Becky and Ollie
b) Fred, Tim, Nick, Jack, Rhia, Becky and Ollie
c) Emma, Ben, Nick, Sam, Jack, Fred and Ollie
5. The final score was …
a) equal
b) one nil to us
c) one nil to them

Тексты для аудирования

I. Kinds of Sport
A. This is a game played indoors between two teams of five players, in which each team tries to win points by throwing a ball through a net.
B. This is a game in which the players hit a small white ball into holes in the ground with a set of clubs using as few hits as possible.
C. This is a game played between two teams of players riding horses, who hit a small ball with long-handled wooden hammers.
D. This is a game for two people or two pairs of people who use rackets to hit a small soft ball back and forth over the net.
E. This is a game in which two teams hit a ball back and forth over a high net with their hands and do not allow it to touch the ground.

II. Cluster Football
On the 5th of October we went to a cluster football match and our A team won and our B team lost but we were up against quite good players. We were quite disappointed about losing but very pleased that the A team won. People in the background were cheering for us.
We played at Symondsbury. It was a big field with a snack bar in the hut and we had juice and biscuits. We played against Symondsbury and Loders.
Powerstock A football team played Symondsbury A as our first match. The players were: Fred, Ben, Tom, Sam, Rhia, Becky and Ollie. Reserves were Emma, Bradie and Hattie. Bradie was swapped in and Becky went to sit on the sideline. It was a close match and everybody was cheering for us like mad. We were so confident that Ben, one of our top players, would score and when he did he did a lap of honour and got on with the match. It was one nil up and we were winning the match – the final score was one nil to us.
Nick was a fantastic goalie and was diving everywhere to save the goals. Everyone was cheering for him and so he had a boost of confidence and saved loads of goals. The B team had a real go to win the competition for Powerstock but Symondsbury won.

VOCABULARY:

cluster	группа
Sideline	зд. скамейка для запасных игроков
close match	матч почти на равных (о соревновании, шансах на победу)
nil	ноль
lap of honour	круг почета
goalie	вратарь

Чтение

Заполните пропуски (1–4) подходящими по смыслу предложениями (A–D).

History of Polo

A. From Persia the game quickly spread to Arabia, China and India in the 13th century. It was in India, six centuries later, where the sport was played for the first time by Europeans.
B. America’s “golden age of polo” came during the 1920-30s: 80 polo clubs sprang up around the U.S., and club members included such popular figures as Walt Disney, Clark Gable and Will Rogers.
C. Polo became a mark of status, thereby earning the game the title of “The Sport of Kings.”
D. These early British polo players brought the sport back to England in 1869, and the game began its rapid ascent in popularity.

Polo is the oldest of all equestrian sports and according to some historians, the oldest organized sport of any kind. There are historical references to polo exist which date from the reign of Alexander the Great in the 4th Century B.C. The game probably originated with the early Persians, somewhere in present-day Iran. In its earliest form, polo was not played merely as a sport, but served as a training exercise for the Persian cavalry. At that time, the cavalry was comprised almost exclusively of nobles. (1)_____________.
As Alexander and other conquerors swept across Asia, they carried the game with them to the new lands they conquered – eventually as far away as Japan and Mongolia. The English term “polo” is derived from the Tibetan word pulu, which referred to a kind of root that polo balls were carved from. (2)______________.
British tea planters in India were the first Europeans known to have played the game. It soon became popular with the English military, colonists, and civil officials. (3)____________. Polo clubs sprang up around Britain and the rules began to be codified and standardized under the guidance of the famous Hurlingham Club.
The popularity of polo in America increased astonishingly through the first half of the 20th century. (4)________________. But, after World War II, American polo experienced a decline in popularity that it has never fully recovered from.
However, the sport still flourishes elsewhere in the world. Argentina was introduced to the game in the 1930s, and has developed something like a national mania for the game: Argentinean players have risen to become the premiere players in the polo world. The international order of precedence today in polo includes: Argentina, Mexico, U.S.A., England and Australia.

VOCABULARY:

equestrian	конный
comprise	составлять
noble	человек благородного происхождения; дворянин
codify	систематизировать, приводить в систему
decline	спад, упадок
flourish	процветать

Лексика и грамматика

I. Заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу словами из рамки.

Olympic Games; give up; injuries; outstanding; be disciplined; motto; have been going in for; courageous; to set a record

 

Sport in Our Life

Nowadays there are a lot of different kinds of sport in the world. The most (1)_________ event in the sporting world is definitely the (2)________. Sportsmen from all over the world take part in different sport competitions. The (3)_________ of the Olympic Games is “faster, higher, stronger”. (4)_________ in any kind of sport a sportsman should (5)________ and train hard. Very often sportsmen get (6)_______ during their sporting life and they can stop his/her carreer. But if he/she wants to win they shouldn’t pay attention to injuries, so the sportsmen must also be (7)_______. As for me, my favourite sport is football, I (8)_______ it since my childhood. I like to play for our school team, in order to spend a lot of time with my friends outdoors. I also think that there are no easy kinds of sport and to achieve something in any of them you shouldn’t (9)________ when you can’t do something at the beginning; you should still continue doing it. So good luck!

II. Прочитайте текст и внимательно посмотрите на каждую строчку. Некоторые строчки правильные, а другие имеют ошибки. Поставьте в конце каждой правильной строчки галочку (v). В конце строчки, где есть ошибки, напишите правильный вариант. В начале задания даны два примера.

Formula 1 Mix Up
1.	After seeing documentary on how inner	a
2.	city youths can remove the wheels of cars	v
3.	in under 4 seconds with no specialist
4.	equipment, McLaren team decided to fire
5.	their pit crew and hire four of youths as
6.	most races can be won or lost in the pit
7.	lane. First race came along and the car
8.	came into the pits. Youths went to work
9.	but the McLaren team boss noticed real
10.	problem. Not only had youths replaced all
11.	four wheels within four seconds, but
12.	within 10 seconds, they’d re-sprayed and
13.	re-numbered car and sold it to the Ferrari
14.	team!

 

pit	пит, гараж (в автогонках – территория, отведенная командам для содержания автомобилей и ремонта, дозаправки и смены колес во время гонки)
re-spray	перекрашивать

III. Прочитайте текст с пропущенными словами. Под текстом даны возможные варианты ответов. Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа.

Out of Season, No License

The fishing season (1)_______ and a fisherman who (2)_______ a license (3)________ for trout as a stranger (4)_______ and (5)_______ “Any luck?”
“Any luck? This is a wonderful spot. I took 10 out of this stream yesterday” he (6)________.
“Is that so? By the way, do you know who I am?” asks the stranger.
“Nope.”
“Well, (7)________ the new game warden.”
“Oh,” (8)________ the fisherman. “Well, do you know who I am?”
“Nope”.
“Meet the biggest liar in the state.”

1.	A. opened	B. hasn’t opened	C. didn’t open	D. hadn’t opened
2.	A. hadn’t had	B. hasn’t had	C. didn’t have	D. doesn’t have
3.	A. is casting	B. casts	C. was casting	D. has been casting
4.	A. approaches	B. is approaching	C. approached	D. had approached
5.	A. is asking	B. asked	C. asks	D. has asked
6.	A. boast	B. is boasting	C. boasted	D. boasts
7.	A. had met	B. meet	C. meets	D. met
8.	A. gulped	B. gulp	C. is gulping	D. was gulping

IV. Переведите предложения на английский язык.
1. В нашей школе уже много лет проводятся различные спортивные соревнования.
2. Соревнования по бегу проводятся ещё со времён Древней Греции.
3. Чемпионат мира по футболу проводится в разных странах уже более ста лет.
4. В теннис играют уже более тысячи лет.
5. Соревнования по скейтбордингу проводятся уже несколько лет.
6. Олимпийские Игры в Сиднее были названы “самыми лучшими играми”.
7. Правила различных соревнований устанавливаются в течение нескольких лет.
8. Олимпийские игры для инвалидов были организованы в 1960 году.

Говорение

Составьте диалог: Your friend invites you to a football match but you would like to watch a swimming competition. Try to convince him/her that the swimming competition is better. But in the end you should reach a compromise.

Письмо

Write a short narration of your school sport events that take place during your school year to your pen friend. Write him/her in which of these competitions you take part. Ask him/her in return about sport events in which he/she participates.

Key:
Аудирование
I. 1. D; 2. B; 3. E; 4. A; 5. C. II. 1. c; 2. a; 3. b; 4. a; 5. b
Чтение
1. C; 2. A; 3. D; 4. B
Лексика и грамматика
I. 1. outstanding; 2. Olympic Games; 3. motto; 4. to set a record; 5. be disciplined; 6. injuries; 7. courageous; 8. have been going in for; 9. give up. II. 1. a; 2. v; 3. v; 4. the; 5. the; 6. v; 7. the; 8. the; 9. a; 10. the; 11. v; 12. v; 13. the; 14. v. III. 1. B; 2. D; 3. A; 4. A; 5. C; 6. D; 7. B; 8. A
IV.
1. Different sport competitions have been held in our school for many years.
2. Running competitions have been held since Ancient Greece.
3. The World Cup in Football has been held in different countries for more than 100 years.
4. Tennis has been played for more than 1000 years.
5. Skateboarding competitions have been held for several years already.
6. The Olympic Games in Sydney were called “the best Games ever”.
7. The rules for different competitions are set within some years.
8. The “paralympics” were organized in 1960.