Note that racquet can also be spelled racket. 1 Team sports Match the sports with the pictures: football basketball n football volleyball rugby Ameri baseball In the United States foothall is called soccer. 2 Individual sports Match the sports with the pictures: table tennis tennis squash badminton - . : ee Sf Badminton is played with a shuttlecock. Badminton, tennis and squash are racquet sports. Table tennis is played with a bat. 100 _ 47 Ball and racquet sports _ 3 Tennis and golf If you play tennis or golf, and you do not know these words, check them in your dictionary: Tennis: serve, ace, return, forchand, backhand, smash, topspin, slice, net, baseline, tramlines. Do you know how to give the score in English? (See unit 50) Golf: drive, chip, putt, tee (two meanings), fairway, bunker, green, bogey, par, birdie, eagle. What do you do at the nineteenth hole? If you are playing tennis or golf, you might want to say to your opponent: “Good shot!” or “Bad luck 4 Equipment Match the words on the left with those on the right: 1, tennis 2. golf a. bat 3. baseball b. racquet 4. squash c. dub 5. table tennis d. stick 6. hockey 7. badminton 5 Where you play Match the words on the left with those on the right: 1, football 2. golf 3. tennis a. court 4, basketball b. pitch . badminton c. course 5. 6. volleyball 7. squash 8. rugby 9. hockey In football, rugby, hockey, and basketball, if ball goes off the pitch or court, it is out « In racquet sports and volleyball, if the ball outside the line, we say the ball is out ~ “1 that was just out.” If it lands on or insid line, we say it is in.6 What you can do with a ball Match these actions with the pictures: hit it head it catch it pass it throw it kick it Now complete the following dialogues with the correct form of these expressions: pass the ball hie the ball so hard ran with the ball 7. You played tennis with Greg last night, didn’t you? T hear he’s pretty good. > You're not joking! He . . that you spend most of the time trying to get out of the way! Add your own words and expressions Sport English Vocabulary Organiser 8. Do you ever watch American football? It's pretty aggressive, isn’t it? > Yes, when one of those guys - I wouldn't like to get in his way! 9. 1 don’t really understand rugby. Why do the players all stand in a line across the pitch? > Because they're not allowed to. . » «forward. 7 What's the sport? Match each of the sports below with two of the following extracts from commentaries. The words in green will help you decide. basketball . She served five aces in the first set. 2. He took three putts on the eighteenth green to finish with a round of 72. 3. That's Johnson’s third personal foul. 4, Another unforced error from Hingis who hit that forehand into the net when under no pressure at all. 5. Dalaglio ran from the halfway line to score a fantastic try. 6. He hit a poor drive at the fifth hole and _ ended up in a bunker. 7. That was a brilliant tackle by Metcalf as Jenkins burst through the middle. 8. The ball hits the ring and Connolly collects the rebound. rugby tennis golf Note on cricket If you visit England during the summer, you may see people playing cricket. It is commonly played on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. It bas very complicated rules and you need very unusual words to talk about it. A game of cricket can last one day or as long as five days! If you really want to know more about it, ask an English person to explain these terms: the batsman, the bowler, the umpire, fielders, runs the wicket, the stumps, a four, a six, an over.