HELLO everyone,
Today we are going to practise a bit of listening on sports...But not any sports, particularly, winter ones. It is important that you read about it first before you try to fill in the text for the activity...
A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice; informally, it can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round, such as basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events, such as luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding.
Luge, like the skeleton and the bobsleigh, (see photos) originated in the health-spa town of St Moritz, Switzerland, in the mid-to-late 19th century The first organized meeting of the sport took place in 1883.
The athletes ride in a flat, aerodynamic position on the sled, keep their heads low to minimize air resistance. The sled is steered mainly with the feet by applying pressure on the runners. It takes a precise mix of shifting body weight, applying pressure with feet and rolling the shoulders…
From Wikipedia
Now,listen to a conversation where the speakers are talking about dangerous sports. As you listen complete the gaps with one or two words.
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British Amy Williams, a _______1_______and beautiful
woman won a _____2_______ in the last Winter Olympics
because she came first heading down an _______3- ____ at
a speed of _____4_____ kilometers an hour.
The woman says that all winter sports seem to be _____5____ dangerous.
A Georgian ______6_______ on the luge track in the last
games.
The luge and the skeleton are slightly different. In skeleton
you go down ___7___ first, and in luge you go down ______8_____first. The bobsleigh is also
done on this track…
Other dangerous winter sports are ski jumping, _________9-_________ and Alpine skiing,
where they go downhill. Here you can also see _____10______crashes.
They both think that it’s that element of danger which makes the sport _____11_____to watch.
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But not only winter sports are dangerous. In football last week there was a horrific____12___.
An Arsenal player broke the _____13___ and fibula of his leg…
______14_______is also considered a very dangerous sport. A _____15____ player had
a very serious _____16______ injury when he was knocked out by someone of his ___ 17__.
See answers in comment #1Final del formulario
