1. Do you do your morning exercises every day?
2. Is it important for children and grown-ups to take care of their health?
3. Are a lot of different competitions held at college?
4. Do you go in for sports?
5. Are there any popular kinds of sports in our country? What are they?
6. What is your favourite sport?
7. Where do you prefer to rest?
8. Do your friends go in for sports?
9. Do you like winter or summer sports?
10. Your hobbies are connected with sports, aren't they?
Make up 10 questions of your own on the text.
Combine words into sentences and translate them into Russian.
1. I, to, by, prefer, the, lake, rest.
2. My, Kostya, friend, in, goes, boxing, for.
3. Care, grown-ups, take, must, of, health, their.
4. A, number, of, great, take, students, in, part, them.
5. Sport, people, helps, keep, in, to, health, good.
Make a short summery on the text.
Grammar Presentation
Verb / Глагол
The Basic Forms / Основные формы глагола
| The Infinitive Инфинитив | Past Indefinite Простое прошедшее | Participle II Причастие II | Participle I Причастие I | |
| Regular Verbs Правильные глаголы | to smile to work | smiled worked | smiled worked | smiling working |
| to cry to play to travel | cried played travelled | cried played travelled | crying playing travelling |
Таблица неправильных глаголов
| to hear to see to speak to say to tell to eat to drink to go to come to have to do to take to give to read to write to be to understand | heard saw spoke said told ate drank went came had did took gave read wrote was, were understood | heard seen spoken said told eaten drunk gone come had done taken given read written been understood | слышать видеть разговаривать сказать рассказывать есть пить ходить, ездить приходить, приезжать иметь делать брать давать читать писать быть понимать |
Grammar Exercises
Make the sentences interrogative.
1. Sport is very important in our life.
2. Many people do morning exercises.
3. They only watch sports games.
4. In spring the students go in for sports in the open air.
5. Grown-ups must take care of their health.
6. Sport helps people to keep in good health.
7. I go to the swimming-pool twice a week.
Transform the sentences into the Past.
Model: We have an English lesson today. (yesterday)
We had an English lesson yesterday.
1. My favourite sport is swimming. (last summer)
2. My brothers do morning exercises. (last year)
3. I go to the swimming-pool twice a week. (last month)
4. But I prefer to rest by the lake. (last summer)
5. The students take part in sport competitions. (last winter)
Use the Future Indefinite Tense.
Model: We have an English lesson today. (tomorrow)
We shall have an English lesson tomorrow.
1. I jog in the morning. (next summer)
2. We take part in sport competitions. (next month)
3. They don't go in for sports. (in summer)
4. I go to the swimming-pool twice a week. (in spring)
5. My parents prefer to rest by the lake. (next year)
Choose the regular verbs from the text.
Choose the irregular verbs from the text.
Additional Texts
Russian Sports
There are many popular kinds of sport in Russia. They are: hockey, skating, figure skating, skiing, football, swimming, running, judo and others. There are many stadiums, sport clubs, gyms and swimming - pools now. Many national and international matches and championships take place in Russia. The most important sports events are broadcast live from the stadiums.
Numerous people come to watch the games,others prefer to do this at home watching special sports channels.
Water kinds of sport are popular in our country. These include swimming, diving, water skiing and boating. Fishing is very popular in all parts of Russia, too.
Football is one of the most popular sports in the country. There are several football clubs and football fans not only come to watch matches, but play football themselves. Hockey is very popular, too.
Russia is famous for its chess players, tennis players and figure-skaters. At the 2006 Turin Olympic Games our country won several gold medals in figure skating.
Physical education is one of the main subjects in Russian schools now. During the lessons pupils play different sports games, take part in school, district and city sports competitions.
Such sports activities as bowling and billiards have become very popular with the Russians, especially young ones. Such indoor games are played in sports centre and clubs.
Even though many Russian people do not have time for going in for sport, they still find some hours to do sports activities.
