Look at the photos. Have you ever done any of these sports?
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b) Read Part 1 of an article about five students who do the sports in a. answer the questions:
1 What do the boys study?
2 What’s their house like?
3 How do they earn extra money?
4 How often do they do sport a day?
5 Who do you think is the fittest?
Part 1.
When you walk into number 4 Walpole Street, Chester, in the North of England, you have to be careful you don’t fall over the mountain bikes, sports bags and various pieces of sports equipment all over the hall. The house is occupied by five sports science students from University College, Chester, who eat, live and breathe sport. They work hard to keep fit. Karl, the canoeist, describes a typical day: “In the morning, we go for a run before breakfast, and then we have lectures at college. Then we go running again and or swimming, and then a quick lunch. In the afternoons we do coaching to earn some extra money, and evenings are spent in the gym or playing football”.
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five boys are obviously fit. But who is the fittest? We asked them to
do a series of tests to find out the answer.
c) Look at the questions and in pairs, guess the answers before you read
Part 2. Choose from:
the footballer the tennis player the canoeist
the runner the shot putter
1 Who had the least body fat? _________________
2 Who could keep running the longest time? ___________________
3 Who was the most flexible? _____________________
4 Who jumped the highest? _____________________
5 Who was the fastest sprinter? ___________________
6 Who was the slowest? ___________________
7 Who could do the most sit-ups? __________________
8 Who did the fewest? ______________________
d) Read Part 2 of the text. Check your answers.
Body fat
The testing started by measuring body fat. Not surprisingly, the one with the most was the shot putter, and the one with the least was the tennis player.
Endurance
The athletes had to run at a speed which was controlled by an audio signal from a cassette. After each minute, the signal got faster, and they had to try to keep going for as long as possible. The first to get tired was the shot putter who lasted 10 minutes followed by the canoeist (“you don’t have to run in a canoe!”), and the runner, not surprisingly, lasted the longest.
Flexibility
When they had recovered, they had to do some stretching. This gave the shot putter the chance to win some points, and he was the most flexible, followed by the runner.
Strength
The next test involved lifting weights to test the strength of their arms. Logically, the shot putter was the strongest. Then leg strength was measured using a jump test, and the runner jumped the highest, 1 cm more than the canoeist.
Speed
An electronic timing system was used to measure sprinting speed and the result, a surprise, was that the tennis player was the fastest, just ahead of the footballer, and the shot putter was last.
Abdominal muscles
To complete the fitness test, their abdominal muscles were tested by doing continuous sit-ups. The footballer only managed two minutes, and after five minutes the only one left was the tennis player who lasted the full eight minutes.
e) Read Part 3 of the text. Who was the fittest? Who was the least fit? Are you surprised?
So, at the end of the day, who was the fittest? Using a points system for each of the tests, the result was as follows: in last place, the shot putter, then the canoeist, then the footballer. In second place was the tennis player, and the winner was Robert, the runner.
WRITING
a) Write an information page about the events (for example – “Asiada-2011”, achievements of Kazakh champions in Olympic games in London 2012). If you are not sure about precise or interesting details, feel free to use your imagination. Alternatively, you could research the internet.
b) Read what you have written. Can you improve it in any way? Use the points below to help you:
1 Have you included enough interesting details about the events and its history?
2 Have you described the atmosphere?
3 Check your spelling and punctuation.
c) Look at the photos of the champions of Kazakhstan in London Olympic Games-2012. Write their names in correct order:
Olga Rypakova Akjurek Tanatarov Serik Sapiyev Zulfiya Chinshanlo Iliya Iliyn Kanat Abutalipov Alexander Vinokurov Svetlana Podobedova Daniyal Gadjiyev |
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LISTENING [3.14; 1]
Song
“You can get it if you really want”
Listen to the song and complete the missing verbs.
You can get it if you really want, You can get if you really want, You can get it if you really want, But you m___________ try, try and try, Try and try, You’ll ____________ at last. Persecution you m___________ bear W________ or I ________, you’ve got to g___________ your share get your mind set on a dream you can g_________ it, though hard it seems now You can get it if you really want, etc. Rome was not b_________ in a day, Opposition will not c__________ your way But the harder the battle you s_________, Is the sweeter the victory Now You can get it if you really wt, etc. Glossary persecution = making someone suffer for what they believe your share = the part that belongs to you got your mind = you have your mind set on = fixed on opposition = people or things that are against you
Read the lyrics with the glossary and find a phrase which means: 1 You will get what you want in the end. 2 You have a clear idea what you want to do or get. 3 It takes a long time to do something well. 4 There will be difficulties. 5 If something is very difficult to do, you’ll enjoy it more when you’ve done it.
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