ГДЗ Английский язык за 8 класс Афанасьева, Михеева, Баранова - Rainbow English - Учебник. Часть 1Unit 1 – Step 8 – 1

🔊 Popular Indoor Sport

🔊 Favourite Game of All Seasons

🔊 Speaker 2

🔊 Football first appeared in England. Nowadays it is one of the most popular team games all over the world. The British love football and play it in all parts of the country - in England and Wales, in Scotland and Northern Ireland. They play it all the year round. There are many football clubs in the UK.

🔊 Mostly Summer Game

🔊 Speaker 3

🔊 Cricket is another popular game in Britain. Sometimes people say it is typically English. They play cricket in schools, colleges and universities in most towns of Britain. Teams play weekly games from late April to the end of September. Cricket is a long game. It is a slow game too. Some cricket matches can last for 5 days.

🔊 Sports Interests

🔊 Speaker 1

🔊 People in Great Britain like everyone else like sports and games. If you ask them what their favourite sports are, they will probably name football, cricket and tennis, though many of them play golf and hockey, do athletics and rock-climbing or mountaineering, horse riding, boating or rugby.

🔊 Sport with an Ancient History

🔊 Speaker 4

🔊 Boxing as a British sport is one of the oldest. But it had appeared long before it came to the British Isles. The first boxing performances took place in Greece. The Greek sportsmen didn’t wear boxing gloves then and it was a very dangerous sport. Boxing became quite fashionable in Britain in the 18th century.