9. Sport & Games
Talking points:
What is sport
Why do people do some sport activities
Why regular sport is so important
Do you prefer winter or summer sports and why
Describe your favourite sport and its necessary equipment
Name some sport popular in our country, GB and USA
Give examples of important international sport events
What are our sportsmen good at
Which sports would you like to try and why
Which sports are most dangerous, exciting and expensive
Sports are one of the most popular leisure time activities. This is mainly due to the fact that they help one to keep fit both physically and mentally. Such a form of relaxation as sport is refreshing, can help take off some weight and wakes use of one's shells and strength. We can divided sports to groups: outdoor sports and indoor sport.
People do some sport activities mainly for fun, for losing your weight, for relaxing, for reduce your stress.
Exercise reduces the risk of getting arthritis by strengthening your bones. Try swimming or water aerobics. You can avoid back pain by staying active and strengthening your back muscles. Try swimming or aerobics. Aerobics usually helps to reduce the risk of getting heart attack by reducing cholesterol levels and blood pressure. After exercising during the day, you will find it to easier fall asleep and to sleep through the night. You can fight with insomnia. Try fast walking, cycling or swimming. By exercising regularly you can keep your bones strong and slow down the process of osteoporosis. Do activities that strengthen your bones and muscles, for example weight-lifting, rowing and cycling.
I don't prefer winter or summer sports, because in winter I like playing ice-hockey and in summer I like playing football and swimming.
My favourite sport is ice-hockey. This game is very popular in the all world. This game lasts 60 minutes which are divided into 3 periods. Each team has about 20 players and 2 goalkeepers. In the playground play 5 players and 1 goalkeepers from the each team. Players take turns during game. Their necessary equipments are: skates, helmet, puck, hockey-stick, guards for each part of their body.
Ball games are very popular in our country (football, volleyball, tennis). Then ice-hockey is very popular in our country. In Great Britain are football, rugby, horse-riding, golf, cricket very popular. In the USA there are American football, ice-hockey, baseball, and basketball.
Our sportsmen are good at football, athletics, decathlon, ice-hockey, they won gold medal on Olympic games in Nagano in 1998.
Most dangerous sports are mountain climbing, motoracers, boxing, wrestling, American football.
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