Sport at School

Sport at School

The value of physical education can never be overstated. Regular participation in physical activity is associated with a range of physical and mental health benefits both in childhood and adulthood. Active children become healthy adults and schools play a key role in contributing to that outcome.

Sport is a compulsory and valued part of the school’s curriculum and is an integral part of a child’s development. It requires physical involvement in organized games or activities within an accepted set of rules.

Sports programs include inter and intra-school competitive sport, outdoor recreation or adventure sport, fitness, sport development and physical recreation activities. Students are encouraged to participate in a way that suits their interest and abilities. During school sport student will develop a variety of skills that will equip them for lifelong participation in regular sport and recreation activities.

         Physical training at school is a regular subject on the curriculum which provides for three classes each week of 45 minutes duration each.

Physical education at school is a preventive measure to teach student the value of regular exercise. Physical education develops the students’ motor skills and hand – eye coordination. It also develops the upper body muscles through activities like push-ups, three minutes running and jumping exercises. Programs usually have core training exercises also like doing abdominal crunches.

Physical education at school also includes games, such as basketball, volleyball. This allows students to interact together to a common goal and develops team spirit.

Each secondary school has a gymnasium and outdoor sport grounds or basketball and volleyball courts. Physical Education classes begin in form one. A class in the junior forms consists of gymnastics, general exercises on the wall ladder.

In forms four and five lessons include exercises on vaulting horse, elementary exercises on rings, the parallel bars and the horizontal bar. Games are introduced in the fifth form. Pupils play basketball and volleyball according to simplified rules.

The purpose of physical education is to instill in students the value of self-preservation and choosing a lifestyle that is good for both the mind and body.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY:

abdominal crunches – «скручивания» для брюшного пресса

ability – возможность

competitive – соревновательный

compulsory – обязательный

coordination – координация

core – основной

curriculum – учебный план

duration – длительность

goal – цель

horizontal bar – турник

instill – внушать

ladder –  лестница

measure – мера

outcome – результат

overstate – преувеличивать

parallel bars – параллельные брусья

participate –  участвовать

preservation – сохранение

push-ups –  отжимания

require – требовать

1.  Дайте ответы на следующие вопросы.

1.     When does physical education develop?

2.     When do physical education classes begin?

3.    Is sport a compulsory and valued part of the school curriculum?

4.     What is the purpose of physical education?

5.     What do sport programs include?

6.     Is physical training at school a regular subject?

2. Выразите свое согласие (I agree) или несогласие (I disagree) с данными утверждениями.

1.     Students are encouraged to participate in a way that doesn’t suit their interests and abilities.

2.     Jumping and running develop team spirit.

3.     Physical education classes begin in the fifth form.

4.     Games are introduced in the seventh form.

5.     The purpose of physical education is to train students.

3. Соедините слова в пары синонимов.

1     regular                a      contain

2     outcome              b      easy

3     purpose               c      evolution

4     require                d      common

5     consist                 e      capacity

6     ability                  f      demand

7     elementary          g      goal

8     development       h      moving

9     active                   i       result

4. Соедините слова в пары антонимов.

1     compulsory        a       inexperience

2     begin                  b      sick

3     skill                    c      always

4     include               d      outdoor

5     healthy               e      forbid

6     never                 f       complicated

7     indoor               g       complete

8     allow                 h       eliminate

9     simplified           i       optional

5. Найдите в тексте эквиваленты следующих слов и словосочетаний.

Включать, обязательный предмет, участие, обеспечивать, образ жизни, развивать, спортивные площадки, соответствовать, позволять, командный дух, самосохранение, упрощенные правила, гимнастический конь, отжимания, параллельные брусья, длительность, мера, упрощать, соревновательный, преувеличивать.

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