Номер 3, страница 157 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Лапицкая, Демченко

3a. Look through the texts (ex. 3b) and match them with the pictures.

3b. Read these descriptions of sporting traditions in the UK. Some of the customs or rules may seem strange but they have been around for hundreds of years. Divide your class into three groups. Each of them reads one of the texts and gets ready to speak about the following:

A. When the sporting tradition began. B. Where and when it is played. C. What the rules are.

Sporting traditions in the UK

1. Traditionally, forty-one days before Easter Sunday is a special day for Christians, called Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. It is the day before Lent (Великий пост) starts. Lent is a Christian fast (пост) which lasts forty days before Easter. On Pancake Day people used to celebrate the last day before Easter when they could eat what they wanted. Eggs and milk ought not to be eaten during Lent. That’s why the eggs, milk and butter left in the house were used for pancakes. All over England there were pancake races on or near Shrove Tuesday. The tradition is still around today. The rules of pancake races are different in different places, but each participant, usually a woman, has to wear an apron and a hat or scarf. They run with a pancake in a frying pan and throw the pancake in the air. They have to catch it again in the pan. The winner gets to the finishing line first having thrown the pancake a pre-decided number of times.

The most famous pancake race takes place at Olney. The Olney pancake race is world famous.

2. The Highland Games is a Championship which began in the middle of the 19^th century in the Scottish Highlands. Games are traditionally held in September. Today they include highland dancing, contests in playing the bagpipes and one of the most popular sports – “tossing the caber”. Tossing means throwing a long and extremely heavy pine trunk (ствол сосны) as far as possible. The average caber weighs ['keɪbə 'weɪz] 68 kilos and is usually about 6 metres long. The heaviest caber in the history of caber tossing weighed 127 kilos. The player who throws his wooden caber the furthest is not necessarily the winner. The style of throwing is more important than the distance. Players are usually very big and strong!

3. St John’s Ambulance¹ and first-aid volunteers² are always present at the two-day football match held in Ashbourne ['æʃbɔrn] in the Midlands every spring. The Ashbourne street football game is one of many street football matches played out all over the UK. The town is divided into two teams, depending on where the players live. There can be hundreds of players in each team and the two goal posts are nearly five kilometres apart. The ball is not kicked but “hugged” close to the chest (мяч «обнимают» = прижимают к груди). The shopkeepers in the centre of town have to cover their windows with wooden boards³ to protect them from the crowds (толпы) of players. All locals, both the young and the old, enjoy this very lively and sometimes violent⁴ game. The match ends with a few broken arms but people think it is all so much fun. They have been playing this game every year for more than two centuries. It is a bit difficult to get the ball from one end of town to the other and sometimes no goals are scored.

3c. Tell each other about the sporting tradition you have chosen.

3d. In groups answer the questions.

1. Which sport is practised throughout the UK? 2. Which sport is not usually played by men? 3. Which sport has an incredible number of players? 4. Which sport is the most dangerous? 5. Which sport requires the most physical strength? 6. Which sports involve throwing something?

3e. Discuss with your class.

Which sport do you think is the silliest? Which do you think is the most difficult? Which sport would you like to try?

3a. Просмотрите тексты (упр. 3b) и соотнесите их с картинками.

3d. В группах ответьте на вопросы.

1. Каким видом спорта занимаются по всей Великобритании?

2. Каким видом спорта обычно не занимаются мужчины?

3. В каком виде спорта участвует невероятное количество игроков?

4. Какой вид спорта самый опасный?

5. Какой вид спорта требует наибольшей физической силы?

6. Какие виды спорта включают в себя метание чего-либо?

3e. Обсудите с классом.

Какой вид спорта, по-вашему, самый глупый? Какой, по-вашему, самый сложный? Какой вид спорта вы бы хотели попробовать?

Ответ:

3 a.

Text 1 - Picture C

Text 2 - Picture A

Text 3 - Picture B

3 d.

1. Street football is practised throughout the UK.

2. Pancake racing is not usually played by men.

3. Street football has an incredible number of players.

4. Street football is the most dangerous sport.

5. The Highland Games (caber tossing) requires the most physical strength.

6. Pancake racing and the Highland Games (caber tossing) involve throwing something.

3 e.

Pancake racing could be considered the silliest sport. Street football seems to be the most difficult because of the number of players and the fact that the goals are nearly five kilometres apart. I would like to try pancake racing as it seems the most fun and least dangerous.

Перевод:

3 a.

Текст 1 - Картинка C

Текст 2 - Картинка A

Текст 3 - Картинка B

3 d.

1. Уличным футболом занимаются по всей Великобритании.

2. В блинные гонки обычно не играют мужчины.

3. В уличном футболе участвует невероятное количество игроков.

4. Уличный футбол — самый опасный вид спорта.

5. Игры горцев (метание бревна) требуют наибольшей физической силы.

6. Блинные гонки и Игры горцев (метание бревна) включают в себя метание чего-либо.

3 e.

Блинные гонки можно считать самым глупым видом спорта. Уличный футбол кажется самым сложным из-за количества игроков и того факта, что ворота находятся на расстоянии почти пяти километров друг от друга. Я бы хотел(а) попробовать поучаствовать в блинных гонках, так как они кажутся самыми весёлыми и наименее опасными.