- •Football
- •Gymnastics
- •Wrestling
- •Weight lifting
- •Winter sports
- •Skating
- •Aquatics
- •Swimming
- •Yachting
- •Boating
- •Shooting
- •Translate the vocabulary into Russian or Ukrainian.
- •II. Read the text and answer the questions after it. Sport and games
- •III. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •IV. Choose the correct answer.
- •V. Choose the correct answer.
- •VI. Discussion point.
- •VII. Read the text and answer the questions after it. The olympic games
- •VIII. Discussion point.
- •IX. Choose the correct answer.
- •XI. Reading comprehension.
- •Record-breaker
Gymnastics
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An outdoor gym (gymnasium)
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An indoor gym
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Free calisthenics
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Side horse
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Long horse
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Parallel bars
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(flying) rings
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horisontal bar
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balance beam
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rope climb
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a complicated exercise
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to balance
BOXING
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Were you at the boxing match?
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Who is in the ring now?
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He doesn`t even know the ABC of boxing.
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He knocked out the well-known boxer N.
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He captured the middle-weight title of the European champion.
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He made a splendid showing in the All-Russia championship.
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He is good in a close fight.
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He has a powerful punch.
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He defeated a much more experienced boxer.
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He is a knock-out specialist.
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He confidently won the country title.
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He won by (on) points (by a knock-out).
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It`s a ten round match, isn`t it?
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How long does a round last?
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It was a hard blow (punch).
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He delivered a series of blows.
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He dealt a crippling blow that sent his opponent to the floor.
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He floored him in the second round.
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He went into a knock-down.
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The referee is counting.
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The gong struck, and the battle was on.
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It was not a fight; it was a slaughter, a massacre.
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The first and second rounds were tame.
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In the seventh round N., under a heavy blow, dropped.
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The referee caught M.`s gloved hand and held in aloft.
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Bout
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Referee
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Second
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Clinch
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Break!
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Below the belt
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Uppercut
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Straight right (left)
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To batter (hammer)
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To parry
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To attack
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To avoid
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To give the ropes
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Boxing weights:
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Flyweight
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Bantamweight
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Featherweight
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Light weight
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Light welter weight
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Welter weight
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Light middle weight
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Middle weight
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Light heavy weight
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Heavy weight
Wrestling
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He floored (put him down) in five minutes.
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He has got a good hold of him now.
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How heavily they breathe.
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The one in red is exhausted.
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The other one is just like an eel.
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He threw him down rather hard.
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The referee is trying to break them.
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It`s a clutch.
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Who is the champion in free style wrestling?
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He won by (on) points.
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His technique is much higher than M`s.
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Classical wrestling
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Free-style wrestling
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A hurl, a throw
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A bridge
Weight lifting
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What`s his own weight?
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He turns the scale at (to) 120 kgs.
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What`s his total?
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He lifted half a ton in three goes.
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Did he take the weight?
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What was his press (snatch, jerk)? (How much did he press?)
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He couldn`t take 150 kgs in a press.
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He is clever at two-hand press.
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He was unable to complete the press.
Winter sports
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Skating
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skating-rink
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speed skating
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The speed skating national champion
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Figure skating (cutting)
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Figure-cutter (figure-skater)
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A skating figure
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The technique of figure cutting (of speed skating)
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A pirouette
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A dance on the ice
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The track
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To skate in pairs
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To race the 5,000-metre distance in…
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To cover the race for the 1000 metres in … min. …sec.
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Skiing
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a skiing race
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a skiing relay
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a cross-country skiing race
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downhill skiing
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ski jumping
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slalom
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a ski-jumping board
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accurate (inaccurate) landing
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to land in a fall
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to lose a point because of a fall
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skiing gear
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bindings
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Ice-hockey
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To roll in the ball
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To throw in the chuck
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To throw a ball up
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To hock the chuck
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To block up
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To score a chuck
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To let a chuck through the goal