My attitude to sports
I. Topic presentation
Do you like sports? What kinds of sport do you know? Do you like sport? Why?What is your favourite kind of sports? The theme of our lesson is ‘My attitude to sport”. Today we will speak about popular outdoor and indoor sports, the role of sport in our life.Today our lesson is devoted to sport and its importance for people. We will revise the words and word-combinations on this topic, practice listening, reading and speaking. I hope that at the end of the lesson you will be able to give your opinion about sport and its importance.
II. Warm-up
Which of these sports are indoor, outdoor, winter, summer, water sports?
Figure skating, draughts, table tennis, skiing, yachting, boxing, rock climbing, water polo, hockey, synchronous swimming, basketball, chess, roller skating, gymnastics,motor races, volleyball, diving, baseball, karate, billiards, field hockey, judo, wrestling.
III. Brainstorming
Sport is good because ……
· It makes me strong and fast
· It helps me to keep fit
· It builds character
· It teachers me to win and to lose
· It’s very good for my heart
· We enjoy it
· Sport helps people to stay in good shape, helps to support health and prevents from illness.
· Sport is bad because ……
· It’s not very useful.
· It takes a lot of energy and time.
· We have no time to walk with friends
· It needs to work very hard.
· We can break legs and arms.
· Why do people go in for sport? (To be healthy, to get own routine, to meet friends, to have a healthy hobby, to see another places and people, to know something new….)
IV. Give one word for the following definitions:
1. A game for two teams that you play with a ball and a basket (basketball)
2. A game that you play on board (chess)
3. A game for two teams that you play with the sticks on the ice-ground (ice- hockey)
4. A game for two people that you play with a small ball on the table (table -tennis)
5. An English popular game (football)
6. This kind of sport includes things like running, jumping, etc (athletics)
7. Canada’s national sport is… (hockey)
8. You can swim there in winter (swimming- pool)
9. A place where boys and girls go in for sports… (gymnasium)
10. A person that trains sportsmen in this or that kind of sport… (trainer)
V. Speaking
Game “The interview”
What sports are played in the summer?
What sports use water?
What sports are played in winter?
What sports do you need to wear special clothes for?
What sports do people play individually?
What sports do people play in teams?
What sports use balls?
What are the most popular sport in our country?
What are the least popular sport in our country?
What are the most popular sport in Great Britain?
What are the most popular sport in the USA?
What sports do people play in pairs?
What sports do we need music?
VI. Reading the text
I am Alison and I am not very fond of sports. I am a bit plump and it is difficult for me to run and jump. I don’t like to compete, but I like to watch sports on TV. Best of all I like watching figure skating. I sometimes go skating myself.
I am Peter. Sport plays a great role in my life. I love every kind of sports – football, hockey, volleyball and basketball. I also play chess and I love to play football. I go to our local football club every spare minute and my dream is to become a football player. I also watch football on TV a lot.
I am Ann. I am not crazy about sports, but I think it is very important to keep in good form and stay healthy. I want to become a model, so I take great care about my body. I go jogging every day and I attend fitness room three times a week. When I have time, I also attend classes of aerobics, but they are quite expensive, so I can't go as often as I want.
My name is Alex. I don’t understand people who think only about sports and physical perfection of their body or watch others doing the same on TV. Such people miss out a lot in their lives. It is much more fun to train brains. In the modern world people do not need muscles, difficult things can be done by machines. I am happy sitting on my sofa with a book or in front of the computer.
Write down only a name
a. Who is fond of training brains?
b. Who likes training football?
c. Who likes figure skating?
d. Who keeps fit for health and good figure?
e. Who hates competing?
f. Who is fond of many kinds of sport?
Answer the questions
- What is Ann's ambition?
- Why doesn’t Alison like sports?
- How does Alex spend his spare time?
- Why doesn’t Ann often attend classes of aerobics?
- Where does Peter play football?
VII. Writing. Give the English equivalents for the following.
зимние виды спорта, стрельба, хоккей, санный спорт, фигурное катание, прыжки с трамплина, прекрасные возможности, легкая атлетика, художественная гимнастика, шашки, шахматный турнир, тяжелая атлетика, гребля, гимнастика, плавательный бассейн.
Homework:
1. Read the text. Find and put the words into following categories.
Summer sport, indoor sport, outdoor sport, winter sport
Sports.
People all over the world are very fond of sports and games. The most popular outdoor winter sports are shooting, hunting, hockey and, in the countries where the weather is frosty and there is much snow -skating, skiing and tobogganing. Some people greatly enjoy figure-skating and ski-jumping.
In summer people have excellent opportunities for swimming, boating, cycling and many other sports. Among outdoor games football takes the first place; this game is played in all the countries of the world. The other games that are very popular in different countries are golf, volley-ball, basket-ball, tennis, cricket and so on.
All the year round many people go in for boxing, gymnastics and track and field events. Thousands of young girls and women go in for calisthenics.[kælɪsˈθenɪks]
Among indoor games the most popular are billiards, table tennis, draughts and some others, but the great international game is chess, of course. The results of chess tournaments are studied and discussed by thousands of people in different countries.
Sport is very popular in our country. Physical training and sports have become an essential part of most people’s life. Sport doesn’t only help people to become strong and healthy. It also helps them in their daily work. There are many stadiums, swimming-pools, gym-halls, sports grounds in our country.
Every year sportsmen set new records in gymnastics, weight lifting, skiing, ski-jumping, skating, rowing, swimming and so on.
(Are you good at…?) swimming, dancing, football, basketball