We ... tennis every day.
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Choose the odd one out. Go ...
Alan ... basketball every Saturday.
Dave ... the sightseeing now.
We like ... sports very much.
Mum ... shopping after work today.
I ... tennis every day.
... you doing your homework now?
Choose the odd one out. Do ...
Mike ... jogging this afternoon.
Choose the odd one out. Play ...
I ... tennis every day.
Mike ... jogging this afternoon.
Read the text and choose the headings for each paragraph. There is one extra heading. 1. Winning a quick victory. 2. Saving a sportsman. 3. Fit and healthy again. 4. The first sporting events. 5. The club history. 6. Sport and its advantages. 7. The swimmer comes back. 8. Champions award ceremony. A. Sport can be a great way to develop life skills. It helps you to learn about teamwork, self-control, and competition. You set your goals and do your best to reach them. In a good sporting environment, children have the opportunity to make new friends and develop new interests. Sport also keeps you fit and greatly improves your health. If you do sports, you have no weight problems. B. German planes have finally managed to save a climber from one of the world's highest mountain peaks. Tom Gummar, a Slovenian, was trying to climb the mountain when he ran into difficulties. He had spent nearly a week six-thousand metres above the ground. All the previous attempts to save him had been unsuccessful because of snowstorms. Only yesterday the planes managed to reach him and now his health is improving. C. The Ancient Olympic Games were held in Greece. The beginning of these games is surrounded with mystery and legend. One of the most popular myths says that Heracles was the first who called the Games ʻOlympicʼ. He started the tradition of holding them every four years. The legend continues that he built the Olympic stadium in honour of his father. D. Former Wimbledon winner Maria Sharapova is back at the US Open semi-finals. "It's been a long road back to the tournament," said Sharapova, who had spent 10 months off court with a shoulder injury that needed serious treatment. “Now I’m in good shape again and hope to repeat the 2006 title win,” she added. E. Chelsea was founded in 1905 and it soon entered the Football League. In the early years they saw little success. From the very beginning Chelsea had a reputation for inviting famous footballers to play for them but the team changed dramatically only after a new coach, Ted Drake, joined it. He led them to their first main victory: they won the national championship. F. Yesterday Andy Wisler played one of his best matches at the Australian Open. Due to his wonderful performance he easily won three sets and the match was finished very quickly. It was impossible for his opponent Yang Chung to play at the same level and the match was finished in a very short time. Still, it should be mentioned that Yang Chung was an experienced Chinese tennis player. G. Janet Evans retired from swimming in 1996. She was sure her best days were behind her. She had won three gold medals at the Seoul Olympics and had set world records that had stood for years. Everyone was surprised when Janet announced her return. She said she was hoping to become part of the US Olympic team. A big decision after a 16 years break!
★★★ Read the article from a school magazine about holidays. A. Harry I spent two weeks on a cruise ship with my family last year. We landed at lots of different places and were given a few hours to visit shops, markets and all the touristy places on foot. I wanted to buy presents for my friends back home, but I didn’t have enough money! We always had to make sure we were back at the ship on time! But of course most of the time we were at sea. It was fun exploring the cruise ship, and there were some other teenagers I met on board. We had a good time together and it would be great if I could see them again one day. B. Maya I did a tennis course for a week during the summer holidays. The teacher was really good and showed me how to stand in the right position when I hit the ball. I think I’ve really improved my technique. I’ll never be an amazing player – if I wanted to be, I’d have to play a lot more often than I do! But I’ve already had better results when I’ve played matches for fun with my friends. I enjoyed doing the course, but I also like spending time relaxing during the holidays – without having to use up too much energy! C. Tim My main interest is cooking, so during my last summer holidays, that’s what I did nearly every day! My aunt’s a very good cook, so she helped me choose recipes that I could manage. She also went shopping with me to buy all the ingredients for the dishes I wanted to prepare. We had a lot of fun going to local markets and choosing from all the lovely vegetables on display. A lot of the things we needed were also on sale at the supermarket. I even made a special meal for my friend’s birthday. D. Louise I went on a science course last summer with some friends. It wasn’t at all like our science classes at school, because we had a lot more time to do experiments. They gave us a list of all the ones we could try every day, and we decided which ones we each wanted to do. We also learned about new inventions, and a bit about satellites. If I can, I’d like to be a scientist in the future. I’d like to work on cars which use electricity as fuel, and developing batteries so we can keep the power we get from the sun for longer.
Read and solve the logic puzzle. Sam, Mary, Kate and Adam are friends. From the information below work out their jobs, the kind of sport each of them does, the day of the week when they exercise and the means of transport each of them uses. 1. Kate goes everywhere by bicycle. 2. Sam has a motorbike. 3. The reporter does yoga. 4. The teacher doesn't have a car or a motorbike. 5. Nobody exercises at the weekend. 6. There is no sport on Monday. 7. Adam plays tennis on Tuesday. 8. One woman always takes the bus. 9. The doctor has a car. 10. Mary exercises every Friday. 11. The golf player always exercises on Thursday. 12. The person who doesn't have a car plays golf. 13. Neither of the women plays football. 14. The engineer plays football. 15. No buses go to the golf course.
You have found a logic puzzle about 4 friends (Sam, Mary, Kate and Adam) in an English magazine and decided to solve it. Read the sentences (1–14) and from the information below work out their jobs, the kind of sport each of them does, the day of the week when they exercise and the means of transport each of them uses. 1. Kate goes everywhere by bicycle. 2. Sam has a motorbike. 3. The reporter does yoga. 4. The teacher doesn't have a car or a motorbike. 5. Nobody exercises at the weekend. 6. There is no sport on Monday. 7. Adam plays tennis on Tuesday. 8. One woman always takes the bus. 9. The doctor has a car. 10. Mary exercises every Friday. 11. The golf player always exercises on Thursday. 12. The person who doesn't have a car plays golf. 13. Neither of the women plays football. 14. The engineer plays football. 15. No buses go to the golf course.
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Read the text and put the statements below in the right categories. Sport Nicole loves sport! She does some sport every day. Three times a week she goes to the sports centre to play basketball or badminton or to go swimming. She does sport at school, at home in the garden and with her friends in the park. In summer she likes tennis, and in winter she goes skiing. There isn’t a sport that Nicole doesn’t like, but her favourite is football. On Saturday afternoons she plays football for a girls’ team. It’s great! This year the team has got a new coach. Nicole likes her a lot. She is strict, but the team works hard in every practice session, and they always win their matches!
For items 1–10 fill in the gaps in the text choosing an appropriate word from the list. Choose one word once only. There are two extra words in the list which you don’t have to choose.
Choose the correct answer. Mary ________ tennis every day.
Read the text and match the right answer. Hi ! I’m Jill. Meet my friends. They are Becky, Nancy, Harry and Fred. We all think a lot about keeping fit. Let me tell you about it. Becky is fond of swimming. Every summer she goes to the river or to the sea. She also goes to the swimming pool once a week. Nancy likes playing tennis or badminton. She doesn’t like swimming. In winter she often goes skating. I don’t go skating because I’m not good at it. Harry is interested in football. He also plays ice hockey but not very often. He stays outdoors one or two hours a day. Fred does morning exercises every day. He keeps regular hours and eats healthy food.
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Read the text. Put each sentence into the correct group. Sports in Great Britain It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing, and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games. Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages, people in Europe, Japan, and Asia all played some forms of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest between villages. But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools started to play football, rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle of the 19th century football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the first serious football rules were written at Cambridge University. A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Britain before other countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066, Britain was quite a peaceful country. As a result, people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain’s industrial revolution, English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The same discipline was applied to sport. So uniforms, referees, and punishments were introduced to football and other games. British authorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industrial careers. Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There are lots of games apart from football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basketball. It is called netball. Netball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter, the court is bigger and netball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange about netball — it is never played by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It is popular throughout the English-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the competitions. But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an important part of English summer life. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News programmes keep you up-to-date with the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the state of the game. One of cricket’s distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In an ordinary game at a boys’ school, it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to five days long.
The teenagers are all looking for an activity to do on holiday. Read about the holiday resort and decide which activity would be the most suitable for each teenager. There is one extra option you do not need to use.
