Thousands years ago ancient Greeks said: “A sound mind is in a sound body.” Millions of people who go in for sports know from their own experience that this famous saying is true. At the same time a great number of people don’t go in for sports. Some of them realize that sport is useful but prefer watching sport on TV to going in for it themselves. Now I’d like to ask you some questions about sport and sport activities.
Now let's read the text about summer and winter kinds of sport. Summer and winter sports in Great Britain. The most popular outdoor winter sports are shooting, skating and tobogganing. Summer afford excellent opportunities for boating, yachting, surfing, rugby, football and other sports. All the year round many people indulge wrestling, aerobics, fitness training, athletics, weight training and track and field events. Among indoor games which one can go in for all the year round are billiards, ping-pong, bowling, draughts and squash. So we have all grounds to say that sport is one of the things that makes people kin.
Now I’d like to tell you about some extreme kind of sport. Bungee jumping is jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building or bridge. Skydiving, also known as parachuting, is the activity of performing acrobatics during freefall.
I thank everybody for the lesson. Your home task will be to do a project “Popular sports in Great Britain”. You must do some research and find out: 1) What kinds of sports are popular in Great Britain? 2)Describe one of these sports: name, history, equipment, manner of play, tournaments, and greatest sportsmen.