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Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the following words and word-combinations.

Developing of the mankind; all over the world; daily activities; pleasure; good health; a sound mind; a sound body; proverb; career; repeated movements; feeling of lightness; outdoor winter sports; skating; skiing; figure-skating; basketball; indoor games; table tennis; chess tournaments; enthusiasts; nationality.

II. Support or challenge the following statements.

1. The goalkeeper acts as a judge in football.

2. Women are good football players as a rule.

3. There is no difference between “soccer” and “rugby”.

4. Hockey is one of the most popular winter games.

5. You can touch the ball with your hands when playing football.

6. Summer affords excellent opportunities for skating and skiing.

7. In hockey a handball and racket are used.

8. Boxers fight with bare hands.

III. Insert the missing words from the list given below.

1. All kinds of ... exercises are very useful to keep ourselves ... and healthy.

2. Among outdoor games ... takes the first place in public interest; this game is played in all over of the … .

3. All the year round many people ... boxing, wrestling, athletics, gymnastics and ... events.

4. Over the last few years ... has become popular with young girls.

5. I can add good ... is better than the best medicine.

(Track-and-field, physical, health, strong, aerobics, football, world, are fond of)

IV. Read the following information. What interesting facts about sports do you know?

Did You Know?

· Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

· Olympic gold medals are actually made mostly of silver.

· Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

· Football (soccer) is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

· Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

· The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.

· About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

· A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.

· Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs’ bladders were used as rugby balls.

· Did you know that you can play the first four turns in a game of chess in 318,979,564,000 ways?

· The real name of Pele is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. Pele was his nickname.

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