Post-reading tasks

Task 1. Find a key sentence in each paragraph.

Task 2. Entitle each paragraph. You will have the plan for the topic “My sport biography”.

Task 3. Write your sports biography.

Task 4. Write a story about the role of sport in any famous athlete’s biography.

Task 5. Look through Texts A, B, C, D again. Write down the answers to the following questions to form the topic “Sport in my life”.

1. What impact do physical activity and sport have on people and the society?

2. What role do physical activity and sport play in your life?

3. When and where were you born?

4. When did your sporting career begin?

5. How were your PE lessons organized?

6. Who brought you to sport?

7. What is your sport?

8. Who is your coach?

9. How are athletes ranked?

10. What sports title or ranking do you have?

11. What university did you enter and when?

12. Do you study by correspondence?

13. How are correspondent students taught?

14. What are your plans for the future?

Check up your skills

1. Put the words and word combinations in one of the boxes below:

hypodynamia endurance training degenerative processes weight gain

strength exercises headache hypertension shortness of breath cycling

mobility exercises physical recreation jogging coronary heart disease

postural defects cross-country skiing

Health disorders	Physical activities

II. Match the nouns to the verbs and translate the word combinations:

A D C D E F

prevent have decrease promote mould attend

sickness expenses person a disease physical activity/health an impact (on) sporting events

III. Complete in the chart with the correct form of the verb.

Indefinite	Past Tense	Past Partisiple
I	II	III
know
	was (were)
do
lead
	swam
	won
		run
study
play
partisipate
	practised

IV.Find a mistake in each sentence and correct it:

1. We have already visit this sports-complex.

2. He will have send the entry form by the 1^st of October.

3. I likes both football and hockey.

4. My friend go jogging in the morning.

5. The athlete is practise now.

6. I practise on the stadium yesterday.

V.Write questions to the underlined words:.

1) Petrov works as a coach. 2) He has been working as a coach since 2000. 3) He was working in the gym when I saw him. 4) The coach was showing a new element to his trainees. 5) The gymnasts have been practising this element for an hour.

VI. Put the words in brackets in the correct tense form. Translate the text:

When I 1 … (be) a boy my mother always 2 … (tell) me not to run too far, not to jump too high and not too swim where it 3 … (be) deep. And later when I 4…. (enter) the military school and 5 … (take up) boxing in her every letter she 6 … (ask) me to give up boxing and to take up chess. She 7 … (say) I 8 … (never, will be) a boxer. All mothers 9 … (be) the same. But I 10 … (be fond) of boxing. I simply couldn’t live without it. I 11 … (be proud) of it. My coach 12 … (make) a boxer of me. I 13 … always (love) boxing. It 14 … (teach) me much. It 15 … (help) me develop my character. Only an honest fight 16 … (give) the right to win.