Sports related to baseball, basketball, bullfighting.
1. Do you play any sports? 2. Are you a good soccer player? Basketball player?Baseball player? Rugby player? Tennis player? 3. Are you a member of any sports team? If not, have you ever been? 4. Are you good at sports? 5. What sports are you good at? 6. Do you often play sports? 7. Did your high school have a good baseball team? 8. Do you ever listen to baseball games on the radio? 9. Do you jog more than once a week? 10. Do you know how to play golf? 11. Do you like to exercise? 12. Do you like playing tennis? 13. Do you like to snowboard? 14. Do you like to watch sports on TV? 15.Do you like watching car races? 16. Have you ever been skiing? 17. Have you ever been to a soccer game? An America football game? A baseball game? 18. What sport do you think is the most dangerous? 19. What sport do you think is the most expensive? 20. What sports did you do in junior high school?
7. Write a topic for the theme: “Sport and Games ” by using the following words. to be fond of smth., to unite, outdoor winter games, shooting, hunting, tobogganing, to afford excellent opportunities for smth., yachting, gliding, golf, lawn-tennis, to establish oneself in favor, to be popular with smb., to indulge in smth., boxing, wrestling, track and field events, calisthenics, to go in for smth., indoor games – игры в health, enthusiast, to initiate into smth., tournament, to make smb. kin., inactive, mind, to feel refreshed, similar, archery, artistic gymnastics.
GETTING AWAY Text A. 1. Read the text about “Travelling” and check you know the underlined Words.
People on our planet can't live without travelling now. Tourism has become a highly developed business. There are express trains, cars and jet-air liners all of that provide you with comfort and security. What choice to make? It's up to you to decide. There is a great variety of choice available for you. Those who live in the country like going to a big city, visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shop windows and dining at exotic restaurants. City-dwellers usually like acquired holiday by the sea or in the mountains. Most travelers carry a camera with them and take pictures of everything that interests them — the sights of a city, old churches, castles, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, forests, trees, flowers and plants, animals and birds. Later, perhaps years later, they will be reminded by the photos of the happy times they have had. If you travel for pleasure you would like all means to enjoy picturesque areas you are passing through, you would like to see the places of interest in the cities, towns and countries. Travelling gives us a good opportunity to see wonderful monuments, cultural and historical places, to learn a lot about the history of the country you visit, about the world around us, to meet people of different nationalities, to learn a lot about their traditions, customs, culture. In other words, you will broaden your mind. Nowadays people travel not only for pleasure but also on business. You have to go to other countries to take part in different negotiations, to sign contacts, to participate in different exhibitions, in order to push the goods produced by yourfirm or company оf travelling on business helps you to get more information about achievements of other companies which will make your own business more successful. There are a lot of means of travelling: by sea, by plane, by car, on foot. Tastes differ. That is why it is up to you to decide which means of travelling you would prefer. All means of travelling have their advantages and disadvantages. And people choose one according to their plans. 2. Answer the following questions:
1. Where do people from countryside like going on vacation?
5. How does travelling on business help you?
Text B. Travelling by Car
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