Sports and exercise
During this fast-paced life…
People should
• do plenty of exercise
• Take up sports, enroll in sports
• Build a healthy lifestyle
• Combat stress
• Avoid sedentary lifestyle
• Avoid being isolated
• Some people think that sport teaches
children how to compete while others
believe that children learn how to
work in a team with others rather
than against them.
Beneficial because…
• Pivotal role in health: Reduces the risk for
health problems, diseases dire consequences
• Good for mind (reduce stress, anxiety,
depression)
• Maintain strength, flexibility, endurance
• Improve quality of life, sleep
• Help thinking, learning, judgement skills
(exercise stimulates body to release proteins
and chemicals)
Should people go in for
sports more?
• Be active with family and friends
• Not lethargic
• Social interaction
• Composure in the face of disappointment (life
skill)
• Recover from a setback (failure)
• Remain restrained
• Respect others (team) communication,
cooperation
However…
• Sometimes life threatening (extreme sports)-
injuries
• Inculcates competitive spirit
• Win-at-all-costs attitude (cheating, breaking
the rules)
• Spend a lot of time
• exhaustion
Useful expressions
• that’s the way the ball bounces: used to say that things
don’t always go as planned, but there is nothing we can
do about it.
| Dave didn’t win the game as he expected, but he
never minds – that’s the way the ball bounces.
• to be out of condition (to be out of shape): to be in bad
physical condition, to lose strength.
| Lily hasn’t been training for years, she is out of
condition now.
• on= like
• Keen on
• Keep fit
• Build muscles
• Get into shape
• Train hard
• Work out
• Take up - enroll
• Have the opportunity to socialize
• Feel a sense of enjoyment
• Face the risk of injury
• Need large investment of time
• Achieve my personal best
Speaking
• Part 1
Do you do any sports?
How do you spend a typical weekend?
Have you got any hobbies or interests?
• Part 2
Describe a place you like going to in your leisure time. You should
say:
– what this place is
– when you go there
– what you do there
and say why you enjoy it there so much.
• Part 3
• Should people be encouraged more to take up
sport?
• Why do some people enjoy participating in
sports more than others?
• Which sports do you think are best for people
who aren’t used to physical activity?
Doping
Artificial harmful substances which create ‘super athletes’
Unethical practice due to..
• Desire for money and fame, attain victory
• Improve, enhance performance
• Defeat opponents
• Win a medal
• Increase chances of winning, achieve more impressive
results
Go against the principal of sportsmanship
Athletes who turn to doping should..
• Not be stripped any medals or prizes
• Disqualified from subsequent sport events
• Feel the threat of exclusion
• Think of the irreparable damage it does:
hormone imbalance, organ failure, even death
Ways to stop this..
• Launch anti-doping campaigns
• Stricter control is enforced by sports officials
• Athletes are disqualified
