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I would like to talk about leisure activities, namely sports in Great Britain. It is rather
difficult to describe the sports in Britain in short. Speaking in general, sport is an
important part of Englishmen's daily life! But of all sports at least two have won the
greatest popularity with Britons: these are football (soccer) which is played in winter
and cricket played in summer. Cricket is a typically English sport which foreigners
can hardly understand. There are two teams of 11 players. Matches last from one to
five days.
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Many people think it is a slow and boring game, but most Englishmen find it very
exciting. If you come to England in the summer time, you can hardly avoid seeing a
game of cricket, especially at weekends or during a long, fine evening. You'll,
probably, see from a window of a train a green field dotted with white figures all of
whom seem to be doing absolutely nothing. It should be also mentioned(мЕншенд)
Rugby, a kind of English football in which the players use their hands for
carrying(кЕріен) the ball. This game is played by teams of 15 men with an oval ball.
It is often considered to be a violent(вАєлент) game.
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Other sports such as golf, tennis, bowling, horse racing are also very popular in
England. Young people go in for traditional athletics - running, jumping, as well as
rowing, swimming and boxing. But those who take to motoring, hunting or fishing in
youth continue with these sports even in middle age and on. In Scotland, where
there are good conditions for winter sports, skiing and climbing are very popular.
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The English are great lovers of sport, and when they are neither playing nor
watching games they like to talk about them. In Britain about 29 million people over
the age of 16 regularly take part in sport or exercise. England is the birthplace of
many modern kinds of sports. That's why many of them have English names. It is
often easy to understand how these sports were named. For example, baseball is
played with a ball and bases. Basketball is played with a ball and two baskets. The
names for other sports come from the name of the place where they were first
played.
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