Văn hóa anh TOPIC: SPORT AND COMPETITON

I. Role and national passion of sport in Britain.  Overview of role and national passion of sport in Britain National passion of sport in Britain: Sport plays an important role in people lives in Britain than it does in most other countries. The British are great lover of competitive sports, they are neither playing nor watching games, they like to talk about them or when they cannot do that, they think about it. It is the main form of entertainment, especially true for men. Millions take part in some kind of sports at least once a week. While may millions more are regular spectators and follow one and more sports by watching TV or newspapers.

THUONG MAI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGLISH

TOPIC: SPORT AND COMPETITON Group: 9

Class: 2076ENTI0411 Supervisor: Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong

Hanoi, 2020

Full name Content Teacher’s evaluation Mark

Lê Huyền Trang - Role and national passion

of sport in Britian

- Powerpoint

Nguyễn Quỳnh

Trang - The most popular sports

in Britain and Vietnam

- Cricket

- Powerpoint

Đỗ Thị Ngọc Trâm - Football

- Rugby

- Powerpoint

Phan Thị Thơm - Animal sport

- Powerpoint

Mai Thị Trang

(Leader)

- Gambling

- Game

- Powerpoint

I Role and national passion of sport in Britain 4

II The most popular sports in Britain and comparison with Vietnam 7

1 The most popular sports in Britain and Vietnam 7

2 Cricket 8

3 Football 9

4 Rugby 13

5 Animal sport 14

6 Gambling 17

III Game 19

I Role and national passion of sport in Britain.

 Overview of role and national passion of sport in Britain

National passion of sport in Britain:

Sport plays an important role in people lives in Britain than it does in most other countries The British are great lover of competitive sports, they are neither playing nor watching games, they like to talk about them or when they cannot do that, they think about it It is the main form of entertainment, especially true for men Millions take part in some kind of sports at least once a week While may millions more are regular spectators and follow one and more sports by watching TV or newspapers Modern sport in Britain is very different There was a well-known saying “winning is not everything, it is only a game” So it reflects the amateur attitude of the British towards sports in the past But to modern professional, sport is clearly not just a game Top players in any sport talk about having “professional attitude” and doing their work well In public school, the students are enthusiastic for sport It influences on the nature and role of sport in Britain

The British is only rarely the best in the world in particular sport but they are one of the best in the world with many different sports than other countries There are hundreds of other sports are played in Britain Some sports have fewer spectators like croquet, indoor bowling, darts and snooker Somewhere in Britain, there is probably a

“national association” for it to organize contest The British is so fond of competition The competition could be just an informal rivalry with their neighbors, even sometimes formalized

The social importance of sport in Britain:

The importance of participant is legal recognized in Britain Every local authority has duty provide and maintain playing fields and other facilities, which are usually very cheap to use and sometimes even free In annual sport occasion, it is not a game; it is

an event because it just is seen on satellite channel For example, every year the Boat Race and the Grand National are watched on television by millions of people In modern times, standard of rugby at the annual Varsity Match is always shown live on

TV Sometimes the traditions which accompany an event can seem as important as the actual sporting contest Wimbledon, for instance, is not just a tennis tournament It means summer fashions, strawberries and cream, garden parties and long, warm English summer evenings The long history of such events has meant that many of them and their venues have become world-famous The Grand National, for example, attracts a television audience of 300 million The cup finals of other countries often have better quality and more entertaining football on view but more Europeans watch the English Cup Final than any other The standard of British tennis is poor, and Wimbledon is only one of the world’s major tournaments Every football in the world dreams of playing at Wembley, every cricketer in the world dreams of playing at Lord’s Wimbledon, Wembley and Lord’s are the ‘spiritual homes’ of their respective sports Sport is a British export!

 The similarities and differences about sport and competition between UK and Vietnam.

Similarity Both countries have many sports However, football is the most popular

sport Sport and competition attract a lot of interest from citizens Differences - Sport in the United Kingdom plays an

important role in British Culture

- The importance of participant in sport has legal recognition in Britain

- The UK doesn’t actually have a football

or rugby team All the countries in the UK have their own teams (Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland) because these two sports are so popular and there

is a lot of competition between the countries However, during the Olympic Games and some other sporting events, the UK is represented as one team

- Traditionally, the favorite sports of the

- Vietnam national football team is the only team representing for Vietnam

- Traditionally, Vietnam engages in some traditional sports from China such as mini-soccer Vietnam has also adopted a number of sports from other countries Some of these sports include taekwondo, karate and judo The older people prefer Thai Cuc Quyen, … Local or Traditional Sports

British upper class are hunting, shooting, horse racing and fishing

- Cricket is not only a sport, it symbolizes

a way of life – a slow and peaceful rural way of life

- Some other popular sports: rugby, hockey, glambing, …

of Vietnam: Vovinam, Dau Vat - Vietnamese wrestling Golf is one of the sports that the upper class often play in Vietnam

- The sports industry in Vietnam has not set an official body for cricket

- Some other popular sports: Badminton, volleyball, bicycling, chess,…

 Reason:

- The UK is divided into four distinct countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so athletes from this region sometimes compete as the United Kingdom or Great Britain, and other times they represent their home country The UK

is home to many sports like golf, cricket, rugby In the UK, because of the lifestyle of the people here, they like sports that are physically and active and due to the power of the economy, there is a division of classes as well as their preferences to play sports

- Vietnam is a unified country, so the national team will represent the country to compete The athletes selected for national competition will be the best members from regional clubs Vietnam has less class segregation, moreover, Vietnamese people have

a close lifestyle, so sports that are played everyday for entertainment will be popular such as badminton, volleyball, chess and basketball

II The most popular sports in Britain and comparison with Vietnam

1 The most popular sports in Britain and Vietnam.

Cricket is a popular sport which is

played across the British Isles,

particularly in England, where the game

was first developed Cricket (also called:

the ball sticks) is a professional sport

with sticks polished, played between two

teams of 11 players, on the field of grass

circle

Volleyball was introduced into

Vietnam in the early years of the 20th decade, It has quickly become a favorite sport in Vietnam, and through many ups and downs of the country, this sport has been maintained and increasingly developed

2

Football

Association football is organised on a

separate basis in each of the four

constituent countries that make up the

United Kingdom (UK) There is no

United Kingdom national football team

Football has been the most popular sport

in the UK since the 1860s

Football

Football is the most popular sport in Vietnam Its annual V-League competition has taken place every year since 1980 (except in 1988 and 1999),

is run by the Vietnam Football Federation

3

Rugby

There are two versions of this fast and

aggressive ball game: rugby union and

rugby league Rugby has existed in

Britain since the beginning of the 19th

century, when a teacher at Rugby school,

while playing football, decided it would

be better to pick up the ball and run with

it

Table tennis

In Vietnam, table tennis followed the French expeditionary soldiers who arrived in this country around 1920 At that time, it was a game for the upper class, used as a means of entertainment, communication with the western But gradually Table tennis became a popular sport, widely developed in Vietnam

4 Gambling

Gambling for centuries has been a main

recreational activity in Great Britain

Gambling is widespread throughout all

social classes

5

Sports relevant to animal

Including: hunting, shooting, fishing,

horse-racing,

2 Cricket

Cricket is definitely not the national sport of Britain In Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, interests in it is largely confined to the middle class Only in England and a small part of Wales is it played at top level

This game is peculiarly associated with England Cricket is English in origin and has been extensively accepted in the Commonwealth It is much more than just a sport; it symbolizes a way of life - a slow and peaceful rural way of life Cricket is associated with long summer afternoons, the smell of new-mown grass

Cricket is, therefore, the national English game in a symbolic sense However, to some people cricket is more than just a symbol One game of cricket takes a terribly long time, which a lot of people simply don’t have to spare In fact there are millions of people in the country who don’t just enjoy cricket but are passionate about it

*Cricket in Vietnam

Cricket is an underdeveloped sport in Vietnam, but has been played by the number of people in the country for more than 20 years Cricket receives development support from foreign Cricket specialists in Australia, UK and India in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

Appeared in Vietnam since 2009 and established the Vietnam Cricket Association, but cricket players are mainly foreigners Until June 2015, when it was announced that Malaysia would bring cricket to competition at the 29th SEA Games, the Vietnam Cricket Team was established, took part in competition with regional players for the

first time The team of 18 players all came from baseball, iron ball, taekwondo, turned into cricket Some players from HCMC Sports University

However, funds for maintaining the team activities, buying uniforms and equipment, though supported by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports, have to wait for the socialization funds Because Cricket is not popular in Vietnam, cricket equipment in the domestic market is almost unavailable The team still receives

sponsorship from Sri Lanka or orders in Malaysia In the future it is not sure if this sport can be maintained Because in fact, there are sports that depended on

socialization funds but only lasted for a while

It can be said that cricket is a quiet sport that takes form in Vietnam Hopefully in the near future, we can see cricket becoming a popular sport in Vietnam such as table tennis or volleyball

3 Football

Football is the greatest and most popular sport in the world It is an industry worth billions and is watched on every continent on the globe Yet what is the history of the beautiful game? When did it begin? How has it developed over the years? What does the future hold for football?

We’ll try to answer those questions as best we can in this presentation

a Role and national passion of Football in Britain

Today’s game takes its origins from a decision in 1863 for rugby football and association football to go their separate ways That was when the rules of the game began to be formalized Everywhere in the country except south Wales, it’s easily the most popular spectator sport, the most-played sport in the country’s state school and one of the most popular participatory sports for adults

British Football has traditionally drawn its main following from the working class In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the appearance of fanzine, magazines written in an informal but often highly intelligent and witty style, publish by the fans

of some of the clubs, football started to attract wider interest

Today, there are over 40,000 registered football clubs in Britain, almost twice as many

as Brazil Most of the biggest names are in the Premier League and these clubs command legions of supporters from around the world

One of the football teams that made the reputation of Britain football was Manchester United, nicknamed the “Red Devils” The club has been the British champion a record

20 times, and has won all the other honors in British and European competitions at least once, and often much more than once

Football in the UK has a tremendous impact To say football is a way of life for most British would be a gross under-statement It evokes a level of passion and comradery that can baffle someone who doesn’t support a football team

b Comparison between Football in UK and Vietnam

Similar:

 The rule: You have 11 players in each team The match lasts 90 minutes, split into two 45-minute halves The aim of the game is to score by getting the ball past the opposite teams goal keeper and into their goal If after 90 minutes the score is equal, the match is a draw Some games go into extra time though, which can last up to

30 minutes If the score remains tied, the match is either replayed or a penalty shootout can be used to decide the winner

 Football is the most popular sport in both Vietnam and the UK and has the most number of clubs and fans

 Football is for all ages including students or adults, both men and women

 The state always invests lots of money in football Organizing and participating in football competitions both in the country and outside the area

 The teams are coached by famous coaches Players who have been trained for many years are scheduled to practice and participate in competitions Most

of the players receive a pretty high salary

Diferrent:

Factor UK Vietnam

- The origin of football is Britain

- The sport being introduced by the French in the 19th century

History - Joint-oldest in the world

Started: 19th century (1863s)

- 1990s: Vietnam rejoined global world football

Scale

organizations

- Over 40,000 registered football clubs

- The English football league system (football pyramid) has a hierarchical format with

promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system

- There are teams participating in world-class tournaments such as:

FIFA World cup, Premier League, UEFA Champions League…

- Over 200 registered football clubs

- Vietnamese football clubs have an equal role, through competition to decide whether

to win or lose Not have football pyramid However, only the national team is the team that represents Vietnam to participate in international tournaments

- Don’t have much experience and most of them participate in regional tournaments such as:

AFC Asian Cup,

Championship, Southeast Asian Games…

Reputation

- There are many world famous football teams like Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool …

And many famous players:

David Beckham, Alan Shearer…

- Prizes (world): 15 FIFA World Cup finals tournaments, World Cup title in 1966, nine UEFA European Championship finals tournaments…

- Only the Vietnam National Football Team is famous in the Asian region

- Competitive record:

FIFA World Cup,

AFC Asian Cup, AFF

Championship…

-Britain players are tall and - Vietnamese players are short