Reading 2 nd semester

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In the UK school sports are usually called Games. All school children have sports lessons. In many schools students have Games and other outdoor activities on Wednesday afternoons.

Westminster Comprehensive School is in London. In the first and second years the outdoor sports are football and hockey in the winter and tennis and cricket in the summer. In the third and fourth years they concentrate on athletics. In the fifth year the students choose their favourite outdoor sport. The boys usually choose football and cricket. The girls usually prefer hockey and tennis.

The students do a lot of indoor sports and activities. Every Monday they play basketball. The volleyball club meets on Tuesdays and there is a chess club every Wednesday evening. On Thursday evenings a lot of children play table tennis. But Friday evenings are the favourite – the students go to the school’s popular disco dancing club. There is no school on Saturday but some students go to the swimming-pool then.