sports to keep fit

Watch this video and mark if the statements are true or false: 1- Laughter yoga clubs started in California in 1997.. The Fifa World cup in South Africa 2010WHO IS THE WINNER?. In 1928,

Let’s keep fit

The different sports

 By:

Meriem Ncir

The differents sports

1.the yoga

Watch this video and mark if the statements are true or false: 1- Laughter yoga clubs started in California in 1997.

2- Laughter yoga members meet in order to tell jokes.

3- Nowadays there are more than 5.000 people practicing laughter yoga

4- An Indian doctor invented the practice.

5- We can only laugh when we are happy.

6- Laughing is healthy for your brain.

7- According to the doctor, we have to live the moment like a child

 The correction

3 *4 *6* 7

2 The sumo

 Sumo ( 相相 , sumō ? ) is a competitive

full-contact sport where a wrestler (rikishi)

attempts to force another wrestler out of a

circular ring (dohyō) or to touch the ground

with anything other than the soles of the feet The sport originated in Japan , the

only country where it is practiced

professionally

3 SKIING

 Skiing is a recreational activity

using skis as equipment for

traveling over snow Skis are used

in conjunction with boots that

connect to the ski with use of a

binding

4.tennis

STEFFI GRAF

She is 1.75 metres tall and weighs 59 kilos In her tennis career she has won 889 games and lost only 113 Her prize money has been over

$20.000.000 She is Steffi Graf, one of the world’s great tennis players.

Born in Germany in 1969, she learned to play tennis when she was very young She won her first important game in Paris when she was eighteen Since then, she has won more than 20 important competitions Her best year was 1988 when she won the five main international championships in England, France, the USA, Australia and at the Olympic Games.

She is a strong, athletic player who can still beat younger players

However, she has had a lot of injuries, so now she has stopped playing in the major international competitions.

Read the text above and decide if the sentences are True or False.

1 She's played more than a thousand games  

2 She's not very famous

3 She's from Europe.

4 Nowadays, she doesn´t play in the major

international competitions.

Correction True:1*3*4 False:2*

5.The football

The Fifa World cup in South Africa (2010)

WHO IS THE WINNER?

In 1928, when the Frenchman Jules Rimet devised a football league with the

leading teams in the world, it was the main sports tournament of all time In 80 years of history, the numbers of the World Cup are:

In 1930, 13 teams participated the tournament in Uruguay with 18 matches In South Africa this year, the competition will have 32 teams and 64 games In the last World Cup in 2006, about 26 billion viewers saw the matches in 214

countries

In South Africa, there are seven world champions’ teams - Brazil, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, England and France – and there are two selections

candidates to win the trophy Spain, the first in the FIFA rankings, promises to consolidate itself as a traditional selection, and the Netherlands, decided to show that it can conquer the world

Read the text about the Fifa World cup in South Africa (2010)

and answer the question

a) The World Cup is eighty years of history

b) Uruguay World Cup, in 1930, thirty-two teams participated

in the tournament in sixty-four matches

c) At the last World Cup in 2006, twenty-six billion viewers saw the World Cup in two hundred and fourteen different

countries

d) For the 2010 Africa World Cup, there are seven world

champions´ teams participating, which are Brazil, Italy,

Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, England and Spain

Correction:

A+c true

B+d false

Listen to the song

6.basketball

2) Choose the correct word

Basketball is a good team sport and a perfect way to

Keep fit * keep out *keep away

It can be played …. during the winter and …… when the

weather is nice acrodding       

 outdoors * indoors* doors

In the Beijing Olympics in 2008 US men's team  Spain in the final

Beet * boat * beat

The correction:

Keep fit Indoors Outdoors beat