Unit 6. For the Glory of Sport.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Keywords. the "firsts", Olympic.

Vocabulary. hemisphere, Melbourne, Munich.

You are going to hear some "firsts" in Olympic history.

In column A, you have some years and places names in which the Olympic games were held.

In column B are some of the key words of the "firsts".

Supply the missing years or place names, then match column A with column B.

Women competed in Olympic events for the first time in Paris in 1900.

In 1924, the first winter Olympic games were held in Chamonix.

In 1932, the first Olympic village was built to accommodate athletes in Los Angles.

In 1936 in Berlin, TV cameras broadcast Olympic events for the first time.

The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne were the first Olympic games to be held in southern hemisphere.

Tokyo hosted the first Asian Olympics in 1964.

In 1972 for the first time, over 1 billion TV viewers watched the Munich Olympic opening ceremony.

B. Keywords. the most popular sport, different meanings, measure, the number of people.

Vocabulary. measure.

Do you have any idea what is the most popular sport in the United States?

Listen to the following material and try to find the answer.

Fill in the chart below with the missing information.

What is the most popular sport in the United States?

That may be an impossible question to answer.

There are different meanings of the words "most popular".

One way to measure the popularity of a sport is by the number of people who pay to watch it played by professional teams.

Experts say the most popular American sport by that measure is baseball.

Each professional baseball team plays 162 games every season.

Or the popularity of a sport can be measured by the number of people who watch games on television or listen on the radio.

Then the answer might be American football.

And the popularity of a sport could be measured by the number of people who play the sport instead of just watch it.

The answer in this case is the game people in the United States call soccer.

It says more than 18 million people play soccer in the United States.

C. Keywords. bend, up, down, raise, pull, push, stretch, warmed up.

Vocabulary. elbow, squeeze, fist, hip, rotate, clasp.

You are going to hear the teacher of an exercise class giving instructions to participants while they do the warm-up exercises.

Each step of the exercises is illustrated below.

Listen carefully and arrange the pictures in chronological order.

Right, everybody. Stand up straight.

Now bend forward and down to touch your toes.

And up, and down, and up.

Arms by your sides, raise you right knee as high as you can.

Hold your legs with both hands, and pull your knee back against your body.

Keep you back straight.

Now lower your leg and do the same with your left knee.

Up, pull towards you, and down.

Move your feet further apart.

Bend your elbows, and raise your arms to shoulder level.

Squeeze your fists tightly in front of your chest.

Now push your elbows back, keep your hand up, and relax.

Feet together, and put your hands on your hips.

Now bend your knees and stretch your arms out in front of you.

Hold that position. Now up.

Stretch your arms out to the sides at shoulder height, palms up.

Rotate your arms in small circles, that's right. and now the other way.

Now stand with your hands clasped behind your neck, and your legs apart,

Bend over to the left slowly, but as far as you can.

And slowly up. And down to the right. And up.

OK, if we are all warmed up now, Let's begin.