IV. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1.Гимнастика помогает развивать равновесие, выносливость и гибкость.

2.Спортсмены должны держаться за перекладину одной или двумя руками и выполнять махи.

3.Окончательная оценка состоит из среднего результата двух опорных прыжков.

4.Акробатика включает в себя сложные упражнения на развитие ловкости, координации и равновесия.

5.Опорный прыжок выполняется на специальном снаряде.

V. Say whether these statements are true or false.

1. Gymnastics has been a part of the Olympic Games since 2001.

2. In the parallel bars the gymnast performs on two long steel bars.

3. Exercises on the rings are performed on two wooden rings suspended from special cables.

4. Artistic gymnastics is gymnastics without apparatus.

5. In the uneven parallel bars gymnasts compete on two parallel wooden bars.

VI. Give a short summary of the text.

TEXT 4

Vocabulary

routine compulsory routine all-round competition balance beam running steps turn

программа (выступления) обязательная программа многоборье гимнастическое бревно шаги (на бревне) поворот

I. Before you read the text discuss these questions.

1. Do you know any famous women gymnasts?

3. What women gymnastic exercises do you know?

GYMNASTICS (WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS)

A women’s gymnastics competition has four events. In order of performance, they are vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. The vault is performed on the same equipment used in men’s vaulting. The event differs by the difficulty of the elements to perform. Moreover women gymnasts don’t have to land into the marked area as men gymnasts do.

In the uneven parallel bars gymnasts compete on two parallel wooden bars, one about 230 centimetres above the floor and the other about 150 centimetres high. The athlete swings around one bar at a time, performing manoeuvres that require great flexibility and agility. The balance beam involves a long wooden beam about 10 centimetres wide. Competitors perform jumps, leaps, turns and running steps on it and try to use the beam’s full length.

Women gymnasts perform floor exercise with a musical accompaniment. Each contestant designs her routine to match the tempo and mood of the music she has selected and tries to demonstrate her skill in acrobatics, dancing, and tumbling.

All-round competition consists of all events where a competitor must perform a compulsory routine in each event. The governing body of gymnastics is the International Gymnastics Federation (IGF).

Our gymnasts are traditionally successful at the Olympic Games.

II. Answer the questions to the text.

1. What do women’s artistic competitions include?

2. What organization is the governing body of track and field athletics?

3. What Olympic champions and prize-winners can you name?

4. How is the vault performed?

5. What do the competitors perform on balance beam?

III. Think of some more questions to the text.

IV. Point out the facts that turn out to be new for you.

V. Find the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions.

to perform a compulsory routine, skill in acrobatics, turns and running steps, vault, uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, to land into the marked area, to land into the marked area, the International Gymnastics Federation, to possess titles, compete on parallel wooden bars.

VI. Fill in the missing words.

1. The athletes perform manoeuvres that ___ great flexibility and agility.

2. The vault is performed on the same ___ used in men’s vaulting.

3. The ___ involves a long wooden beam about 10 centimetres wide.

4. Women gymnasts perform ___ exercise with a musical accompaniment.

5. The governing body of gymnastics is ___

TEXT 5

Vocabulary

to improve to oppose to propel health, healthy muscle, muscular heart action blood circulation to breathe breath breathing disease water sports kick the flutter kick the breaststroke kick the dolphin kick the scissors kick stroke the front crawl the backstroke the breaststroke the butterfly the dolphin the sidestroke applied stroke the dog paddle the elementary backstroke freestyle freestyle relay individual medley medley relay short-course pool long-course pool

улучшить противостоять двигать здоровье, здоровый (полезный для здоровья) мышца, мышечный работа сердца кровообращение дышать вдох дыхание заболевание водные виды спорта удар ногами удар ногами в кроле толчок ногами в брассе удар ногами в дельфине «ножницы» (удар ногами в плавании на боку) способ плавания кроль на груди кроль на спине брасс баттерфляй дельфин плавание на боку вспомогательный способ плавания кроль на груди без выноса рук (плавание «по-собачьи») брасс на спине плавание вольным стилем эстафета вольным стилем комплексное плавание комбинированная эстафета «короткая вода» (бассейн длиной 25м) «большая вода» (бассейн длиной 50 м)