Англиискии для вас Новый курс XXI века

Exercise 17. Give responses according to the model. Use modal verbs.
They didn't manage to reach the station in time.
a) They should have started earlier, b) They needn't hurry- now — they will have to wait for another train, c) They had to help their friends, that’s why they didn't manage to reach the station in time, d) They were to be taken to the sta­tion by taxi but the taxi did not come.
1. He missed the football match yesterday. 2. The captain hurt his leg when he was hitting the ball. 3. I sec she is worried about something. 4. The team lost the game and it upset the coach very much.
Exercise 18. Give a summary of the text "1 Am His Brother".
Exercise 19. Translate into English.
1. Тренер сказал, что Джонни, возможно, вернется к пяти часам. 2. Какая разница, чем она порезала руку. Сейчас ей нужно идти к врачу. 3. Я не имею ни малейшего представления о том. что расстроило его пла­ны. 4. Эта статья о последних спортивных событиях. Вам следует ее про­читать. 5. Вам не следовало упускать возможность передать профессору свою работу. 6. Хоккеист получил травму во время матча, и его отправи­ли в больницу. 7. Я был очень огорчен, когда мой любимый фигурист не появился на льду. 8. Интересно, почему тренер сердится на вратаря? 9. Моего учебника нет. Он был на письменном столе, когда я уходил в ин­ститут. Интересно, где бы он мог быть? 10. Когда Бако должен был опла­тить больничный счет? II. Его ответ был очень остроумным. 12. Мальчик потянулся за мячом, но не смог достать его.
Exercise 20. Read these texts, give summaries and discuss them.

1. 
   Olympic Games
   

The Olympic Games have a very long history. They began in 776 B.C.* and took place every four years for nearly 1,200 years, at Olympia, in Greece. They included many different kinds of sports, among them nmning, boxing and wrestling. All the cities in Greece sent their best athletes to the city of Olympia to compete in the games. Thousands of people from all parts of Greece came to see the games.
In 394 A.D.⁷⁶ the Games stopped and the temple at Olympia was destroyed. Fifteen hundred years later, in 1894, a Frenchman. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, addressed a circular to all the governing bodies of sport in which he pointed out the educational value of sport to modern peoples.
The first of the modem series of Games took place in Athens two years later, in 1896. on the site where the ancient festivals had been held 1.500 years before.
In 1896 the International Olympic Committee was set up. It is the central policy-making body of the Olympic movement. All nations, which take part in the Olympic Games, are represented in this Committee. The Committee decides where next Olympic Games will take place. They ask a city (not a coun­try) to be the host — one city for the Winter Olympics and one for the summer Olympic Games. Nearly 150 countries are represented in the International Olympic Committee now.
In 1952 the Soviet Union sent athletes to the Olympic Games for the first time. Then four years later, in Australia, the Soviet Union won more medals than the other countries. Soviet athletes won thirty-seven gold medals and twen­ty-nine silver medals.

2. 
   Sports in Great Britain
   

The English arc great lovers of sports and w hen they are neither playing nor watching games⁷⁷ they like to talk about them.
The game especially associated with England is cricket. Organized amateur cricket is played between club teams. But for the great mass of the British public the eight months of the football season are more important than the four months of cricket. There are plenty of amateur football (or “soccer”) clubs, but profes­sional football is big business. Every large town has at least one professional foot­ball club. The players have not necessarily any personal connections with the town for whose teams they play. They are bought and sold between the clubs, and the “transfer fees”⁷⁸ can be much more than £30,000. The Cup Final, played in May each year in London, is the culminating event of the season.
Rugby football (or “rugger”) is played with the egg-shaped ball, which may be carried and thrown. Rugby is mostly played by amateurs. It is also the game played at the great majority of “public schools"⁷⁹ though more and more grammar schools are adopting it. International matches, involving England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and France, are played in capital cities.
Most secondary schools have playing fields, and boys normally play rugger or soccer in winter and cricket in summer; schoolgirls play tennis and rounders (a sort of baseball) in summer and netball and hockey in winter though hockey is now becoming more and more popular also at boys’ schools, and there are many men’s amateur hockey clubs.
Golf and tennis are played by great numbers of people. There are plenty of tennis clubs in Great Britain.
Next to football, the chief spectator sport in English life is horse racing.⁸⁰
Athletic sports and gymnastics are practised at schools, but not many towns have running tracks for public use. Rowing occupies a leading place in the sport­ing life of schools and universities which have suitable water nearby.