Spotlight 8 Module 8 a "Экстраординарные виды спорта"

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Exercise 1 Which of the following activities can you see in the pictures in the text?

• Ice climbing – скалолазание
• Underwater hockey – подводный хоккей
• Sandboarding – сэндборд
• Zorbing – зорбинг
• Skydiving – затяжные прыжки с парашютом
• Snowboarding – сноуборд
• Rock climbing – скалолазание
• Paragliding - парапланеризм

Exercise 3 Match the highlighted words to their meanings.

• Move very fast - Быстро ездить
• Hooked on - Увлечься
• Competitors – соперник
• Strange – странный
• Turning over many times – поворачиваться много раз
• Hits – удары
• Fasten – застегивать
• Rival – соперник
• Slip – скользить
• Jump – прыгать
• Started – начинать

• Strap-пристегнуть ремень
• Entrains-участники
• Knocks-удары
• Bounce-подпрыгивать
• Whizz-промчаться
• Bizarre-причудливый
• Originated-происходил
• Rolling-вращаться
• Addicted to-пристраститься
• Slide-скользить
• Opposing-противостоящий

Exercise 4 a

• Why are the following mentioned in the text?

• Snowboarding – Sandboarding is similar as snowboarding
• New Zeeland – New Zeeland is the place where zorbing was originated.
• Frozen waterfalls –Paul Lynch was climbed up frozen waterfalls.
• The Alps – It was in the Alps that Paul Lynch fell in love with the mountains.
• Splashing – Splashing is all you can see of underwater hockey from outside the pool.

Exercise 4 b

THINK!!!

Why might someone want to do an unusual sport?

In three minutes write a few sentences on the topic.

Read sentences to your partner.

• Try something different and new
• To be bored of
• To want to challenge
• To keep fit
• To be fond of

Exercise 5

Vocabulary

Which of the followings do you enjoy doing in your free time?

For example you can say:

• I haven’t got much free time, but I enjoy reading magazines or going to the cinema when I can.

Homework

• Sb. p. 122-123 ex. 1,3- to learn new words and by heart
• Sb. p. 123 ex. 7