Collecting stamps the dramatic society

Model making sport club

You say you’re a collector. What do you collect? How long have you been collecting stamps?

I collect stamps gathering herbarium

Badges petting animals

old coins going in for sport?

Post-card

Butterflies

birds’ eggs

5. Read and dramatize the following dialogues, use them in your speech:

№1

-I’ve got some extra postage stamps to exchange.

-What series?

-It’s a special series of British authors.

-Oh, those stamps must be very interesting, but unfortunately they’re out of my line. I collect only the stamps of African states.

№2

-What sport do you go in for?

-Well, I’m not much of a sportsman. Just sometimes I play tennis. I’m rather a supporter.

-Do you back some definite team?

-Certainly, I’m a fan of Dynamo.

№3

-What’s your result in the hop, step, and jump?

-Well, nothing to boast of.(хвалитися).

-But you used to be a school champion!

-That’s right, used to be. My record was beaten twice last year and I still can’t regain my usual sporting form.

№4

-I’m looking for a partner for a game of tennis?

-Oh, I’ll be glad to play with you.

-David? No, you’re too fast for me.

-Never fear, I’ll give easily balls and you’ll be able to take them. So come along.

6. Read the text, translate it, disagree or agree with the statements given below:

From Hero To Zero In 9.79 Seconds

Someone wrote these words on one of the walls in the Canadian Olympic team’s camp in Seoul the day after Ben Johnson lost his Olympic gold medal. He lost his medal because he took drugs.

The world will always need heroes, especially heroes of sport. The eyes of everyone in the world were on Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson as they races for the finish in the Olympic 100 metres. Lewis was the ‘too-good-to-be-true’ athlete. ‘Mr. Clean’ from a rich and privileged home. Johnson was a very popular winner because he was a poor man. His mother took him and his brothers from a small Jamaican town when they were young to find work in Canada. His father stayed at home and still lives there now. After the World Championship-88 in Rome and before the Seoul Olympics the Jamaicans were very proud and very happy. They had a special ‘Ben Johnson Day’ in honor of their hero but Johnson never returned to visit them. When he lost his medal they didn’t believe it.

When Johnson won the 100 meters race in Seoul he said “The gold is something no one will take away from you. I think my record will last fifty-maybe one hundred-years.’ But he was wrong. He rose to be a superhero and he crashed down to less than nothing. In many people’s eyes he betrayed his sport when he took the drugs to help himself run faster and he betrayed their love and support for him.

When you become a great hero, you have very special responsibilities. Do you agree?

True or false:

1. Someone wrote these words on one of the doors in the Canadian Olympic Team’s camp.

2. The Canadian Olympic Team’s camp was in Seoul.

3. It happened two days after Ben Johnson had lost his Olympic silver medal.

4. The eyes of everyone in Seoul were on Carl Lewis.

5. Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson raced for the finish in the Olympic 100 meters.

6. Lewis was a very good athlete.

7. Johnson was not a rich person.

8. Johnson was born in Canada.

9. The Jamaicans were very proud of Carl Lewis.

10. Ben Johnson crashed down to less than nothing.

7. Use the verbs from the brackets to complete the sentences:

(Take, join, relax, spend, get, take up, give it up, learn)

1. He__________all his free time doing karate. He_______a club and got his black belt.

2. He goes fishing a lot. It _________him out of the house and it helps him__________.

3. He’s ____________________to play the guitar.

4. I used to go yachting but I had to_________because I don’t have the time.

5. My daddy likes painting. He finds it relaxing and it_________his mind off work.

6. She_________chess when she was about 50, when she had to stop playing tennis.

8. Put the words into the correct column: