UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA PARA ADULTOS

SUBJECT: ING-324

TOPIC: HOMEWORK 2

STUDENT: JACK F. BETANCES VALDEZ

ENROLMENT: 13-4544

PROFESSOR: LEONARDO GIL SANCHEZ

DATE: MAY/20/2018
Observe the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5qmpK1G3zU

A- Now comment based on the video:

1. What do you think about silly sports?

2. Do you consider this to be a sport? why yes? why not?

2. Why do you think these people practice them?

3. Do you know any silly game practice in your country?

B- Read and study in your book "Hot Topics 1", Chapter 2 Silly Sports.

Work on the following exercises:

Read the articles. Look for the answers to your questions.

Pg. 17, exercises: Check the Facts Reading1 A, B

Pg. 18, exercises: Reading 2, A, B

Pg. 18, exercise: Analyze

Pg. 21, exercise: Reading Skills

Pg. 22, exercise: PART II, Read to find the answers to these questions.

Pg. 23, exercises: Vocabulary Work / Reading Skills

Pg. 24, exercise: Talk about Your Ideas

NOTE: Due to youtube’s dead link, I can’t watch it then I can’t anwers the first questions.

Check the Facts READING 1 A.

Read the statements and write true (T) or false (F). Go back to Reading 1 and look for the
answers you are unsure of.

(T) 1. The writer believes that sports must be competitive.

(F) 2. The writer believes that sports must be dangerous.
(T) 3. Extreme ironing is a very old sport.
(T) 4. Extreme ironists almost always compete outside .
(T) 5. Some companies sponsor extreme ironing teams.
(T) 6. Extreme ironists don't like people to know their names.

B. Answer the questions.

1. Check (Y) the items that ironists must carry with them.
_(Y)_ iron
_(Y)_ ironing board
_(Y) _ electric generator
_ _ clothes
_(Y)_ laundry basket
_(Y) _ gas stove
_ _ food

2. What do ironists get points for?

a. how much laundry they iron
b. how fast they iron
c. how well they iron
d. how long they iron

3. What else do they get points for?

a. when they iron
(b.) where they iron
c. what they iron
d. why they iron

A. Read the statements and write true (T) or false (F). Go back to Reading 2 and look for the
answers you are unsure of.

(T) 1. Sonya Thomas ate 12 lobsters in 38 minutes.

(T) 2. Competitive eating is Sonya's job.
(T) 3. Sonya is a member of the IFOCE.
(T) 4. Sonya is the best professional eater in the world.
(F) 5. Professional eaters are fat.
(F) 6. Professional eaters play golf and tennis.
(T) 7. The most important competition is a hot-dog eating contest.
B. Answer the questions.
1. What two things are most important in competitive eating contest?
a. speed
b. style
c. amount
d. taste

2. Name three different eating contests.

• Nathan’s Hot-Dog Eating contest.
• Lobster-Eating contest.
• Watermelon-Eating contest.

Analyze
1. Would the writer of Reading 1 think that professional eating is
a sport?
No, it wouldn’t. The competition on the reading 1 showed us about how is the Extreme Ironing
sport. So if you see carefully, Iron means some kind of metal. People don’t eat any kind of metal.

2. Sometimes writers let their readers infer or guess part of their

meaning. What connection does the writer want the reader to make
in the quote below?

You might think that professional eaters must look like

sumo wrestlers. They don 't ... What is their secret? Metal
buckets perhaps.

Sumo wrestlers are a kind of sport that, the main resource is to have more and more weight in order
to deal with that sport. Professional eaters look like slim due to the load that they hold on while they
are in a contest.

Reading Skills
Finding Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Everyparagraph in a reading should have a main idea. The writer often starts
the paragraph with the main idea. The writer then uses details to explain the
main idea.

Write the main ideas of each paragraph in Reading 1. Then add one
detail from each paragraph.
Paragraph 1
Main Idea → Combine physical activity and competition.
Detail → Extreme ironing.

Paragraph 2
Main Idea → Pressing clothes in very difficult places.
Detail → Difficultly of the location.
Paragraph 3
Main Idea → Competitions in some amaizing places.
Detail → climbings.

Paragraph 4
Main Idea → To have their sport included in the Olympics.
Detail → This sport is not a joke.

Read the next article to find the answers to these questions.

1. According to the writer, which of these activities are sports?
figure skating (golf) gymnastics (baseball).

According to the writer, the sports ilustred here are, baseball and golf. The other ones are not sports.

2. How did he make his decision?

Because of we are humans being we can be influenced by people. Example Some if we were judges
we could decide our favorite competitor by looking his clothes or based on our opinions. So, the
writer made his decision because we can never be certain that the winner was really the best. So, the
person or team that has more points or finishes first wins.

3. Do all athletes participate in sports?

Yes, they do. Every activities like bowling, Ping-Pong and even curling are sports.

4. Is everyone who participates in a sport an athlete?

No, it isn’t. Like a said before, they are some kind of sport that doesn’t represent as sports. Like
NASCAR F1. This is not a sport.