The biggest country in the world offers a striking variety of
landscapes and weather conditions. Here you can find arctic zones,
covered with ice and snow all-year round, huge virgin pine forests,
inaccessible rugged mountains, endless plains and sandy beaches with
lush subtropical vegetation. This diversity creates opportunities for
almost all known sports activities – from swimming and watersports at
the seaside through hiking and cycling along the roads that reach the
horizon to skiing in all seasons in Siberia and the Caucasus Mountains.
Cruising is also very attractive to tourists in Russia, as it allows
them to explore some of the most beautiful and important cities and
cultural sites in the world...
People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes
people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined.
It unites people of different classes and nationalities.
Many people do sports on their personal
initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimming,
volleyball, football, bodybuilding, etc. All necessary facilities are
provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating
rinks, skiing stations, football fields. Sport is
paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a
part of children's daily activity in the kindergartens. Physical
culture is a compulsory subject at schools and colleges....
If you want to keep fit you must go in for one kind of sport or another.
Sport is an essential part of my daily life. Every morning all
the year round I do my morning exercises. Almost every day I do some
training. In summer I go swimming or rowing. During my summer holidays I
go on hikes. I usually spend my winter holidays in the country where I
ski, skate or toboggan.
I also go in for track-and-field (athletics) events. Different
sports and games are popular with my classmates. All my friends go in
for different kinds of sport, such as water polo, gymnastics,...
A lot of Australians think you shouldn't worry too much about life.
But some things in life are really important, and to many
Australian men, one of these things is sport. It's something they don't
joke about. Sport matters. In pubs, clubs and even at work you'll often
find men who can talk about only one thing — sport.
Australians are lucky. They have a perfect climate, and an
endless amount of land. They have wonderful waves f 01 surfers on their
beaches. They also have a strong wish to win. Put these together and you
get a lot of good sportsmen and women. In fact, Australia has a very
high number of world champions, in all kinds of sports, for a country of
only 16 million people...
There are many public houses in London and elsewhere, where beer, wine
and spirits may be bought and drunk at certain times of the day. These
are suitable for all classes of the community and provide a place, where
people may meet together and talk, and perhaps play at darts or other
games, as well as drink....
They say, "Health is above wealth." One of the first duties we owe to
ourselves is to keep our bodies in perfect health. If your body suffers
from any disorder, our mind suffers with it, and we are unable to make
much progress in knowledge, and we are unfit to perform those duties,
which are required of us in social life.
There are certain laws of health which deserve particular
attention and they are so simple that even a child can learn them. A
certain amount of exercise is necessary to keep the body...
Snowboarding is the fastest growing winter sport and is set to become
even more popular than skiing. It is hard to say who actually "invented"
the first snowboard because it was influenced by many different people
including Sherman Poppen, Demetrije Milovich, Tom Sims and Jake Burton
Carpenter. Snowboarding's roots, however, may be traced back to the
early 1920's. Then children in Vermont built what would now be
considered makeshift snowboards out of barrel staves and rode them
sideways down a snowy hill....
Skiing is the most popular of all winter sports. It is believed that
skiing comes from northern Europe and Siberia, where it was a vital
means of transportation during the long, snowbound months of winter. The
pre-historic people of these regions used skis to keep hunters on top
of the snow. Wooden planks were strapped to feet, to prevent sinking and
making it possible to glide over the snow and travel faster. Skiing was
such an important way of life in Scandinavia that the Vikings
worshipped Ull and Skade, the god and goddess of winter/skiing. The
first written account of skiing appears circa 1000 A.D. in the Viking
"Sagas" where several kings are described as being superb skiers....
There are all kinds of racing in England - horse-racing, motor-car
racing, boat-racing, dog-racing, and even races for donkeys. On sports
days at school boys and girls run races, and even train for them. There
is usually a mile race for older boys, and one who wins it is certainly a
good runner. Usually those who run a race go as fast as possible, but
there are some races in which ...
The topic presented to you today is devoted to the Olympic Games. In my speech I am to dwell upon the following points:
- Firstly, I am to tell you about the history of the Olympics;
- Secondly, I would like to speak about modern Olympic games;
- After that, I would like to attract your attention to the problems of modern Olympics;
- Finally, I am to draw a conclusion expressing my opinion....
