Sport in the usa (2)

Americans' interest in sports seems excessive to many foreign visitors. Television networks spend millions of dollars arranging to telecast sports events. Publications about sports are sold widely. In the US professional athletes can become national heroes.

Sports are associated with educational institutions in a way which is unique. High schools have coaches as faculty members, and school teams compete with each other.

Nowhere else in the world are sports associated with colleges and universities in the way they are in the States. College sports, especially football, are conducted in an atmosphere of intense excitement and pageantry. Games between teams attract nationwide television audiences.

The sport that is most popular in most parts of the world — soccer — is not well known in the US. The most popular sports are football and baseball, games that are not played in large number of countries.

Sports play such an important role in American life that the sociology of sports, sports medicine, and sports psychology have become respectable specializations.

Many Americans jog every day, or play tennis or bridge two or three times a week. They go on ski trips and hunting expeditions that require weeks of planning and organizing. In the Americans' view, all these activities are worth the discomfort they may cause because they contribute to health and physical fitness. That is probably why Americans are known as a healthy nation

1. Combine the sentences:

1. Television networks spend millions of dollars

2. Games between teams

3. They go on ski trips and hunting expeditions

1. that require weeks of planning and organizing.

2. arranging to telecast sports events.

3. attract nationwide television audiences.

2. Fill in the gaps:

1. Sports are associated with educational institutions in a way which is (___)

1. Strange b) unique c) widespread

2. The sport that is most popular in most parts of the world — (____) — is not well known in the US.

1. Soccer b) rugby c) cricket

3. Many Americans (___) every day, or play tennis or bridge two or three times a week.

1. Run b) jog c) walk

3. CHOOSE THE SENTENCE WITH THE CORRECT WORD ORDER:

1. about, sports, widely, Publications, sold, are.

2. nationwide, audiences, between, television, attract, Games, teams.

3. known, why, a, Americans, healthy, is, are, That, as, nation, probably.

4. INSERT THE WORDS

1. In the US professional athletes can become (___ ___).

2. The most popular sports are football and (___), games that are not played in large number of countries.

3. In the Americans' view, all these activities are worth the (____) they may cause because they contribute to health and physical fitness.

5. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1. Are Americans interested in sports?

2. Do professional athletes become national heroes?

3. Are there sport teams in high schools?

4. Are there any coaches in the faculty?

5. What are the most popular sports in the USA?

6. What specializations have become respectable thanks sport?

7. Why do Americans spend so much time on sport activities?

VOCABULARY:

educational institutions – навчальні заклади

discomfort - дискомфорт

excessive — надмірний

unique — незвичайний,унікальний,чудовий

high school — середня школа

coach — тренер

to arrange – організовувати, монтувати

to telecast – транслювати

publications – публікації

to sell – продавати

to compete – змагатися

to conduct – змагатися, боротися, конкурувати

intense – інтенсивний, напружений

excitement – хвилювання

respectable – поважний, респектабельний, порядний

sociology – соціологія

hunting expeditions – мисливські експедиції

ski trips – гірськолижні тури

pageantry — пишне видовище,блиск,фікція,блеф

sociology — соціологія

to require — вимагати

to contribute — сприяти,жертвувати,робити внесок,віддавати

physical — фізичний

bridge - міст

Практичне заняття № 15

Lesson 15

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