II Read the text and prove that Paralympics Games have become more popular than ever.

Speak about the importance of sport in people’s lives.

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Paralympics Games

Just a few weeks after the Olympic Games, it’s time for the Paralympics. They are the Olympic event for athletes with physical and mental disabilities.

The idea of Paralympics Games was born in 1948, when Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised a sports competition in England for World War II veterans with physical disabilities. Four years later, the event became international when participants from Holland joined in. In 1960 the Paralympics finally became an Olympic event. Four hundred athletes came to the first Paralympics Games in Rome in 1960. In Athens in 2004, more than 3800 athletes from all over the world competed in 19 different sports.

By the way, ‘para’ is a Greek word meaning ‘alongside/beside’. So the word Paralympics means ‘the Games parallel to the Olympic Games’.

Questions:

1. Who are the Paralympics for?

2. When did the Paralympics become an Olympic event?

3. What does the word “Paralympics” mean?

4. Do you think all people should do sport?

5. What is your favourite sport?

6. Do you like doing this sport or watching it?

7. What extreme sports do you know? Have you ever tried any extreme sports?

8. What are some advantages and disadvantages of going in for sports?

9. Have you ever taken part in competitions? Did you win or lose?

10.Are you satisfied with your Physical Education lessons at school? Why? / Why not?

11.Do you think there are enough sport facilities in your school, in your area?

III Speak to your partner. You begin the conversation.

Your friend has just returned from an English-speaking country. Ask him about the places of interest he/she was able to see there, and which of them he/she was impressed by.

Card 7

I Read the article and answer your teacher’s questions.

THE FIRST WOMAN IN BUSINESSDavid Evance

At the start of the twentieth century the idea of women in business seemed crazy. In those days men held all the positions of power and made all the decisions about money. They believed that a woman` s place was at home, looking after her children, cooking for her family and managing the house. If a woman needed to work she could perhaps find a job in a shop or in a factory, but she had no chance of working as a businesswoman or a banker, or a lawyer.

Women` s fashions in the USA and Europe at that time supported their position in society. Fashionable women wore long dresses that almost touched the ground. This made it difficult for them to drive a car, ride a horse or even walk quickly.

But many women were not happy with their position in society, and they didn’t like the clothes they had to wear. One of those people was a French woman called Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel. When she went into business in 1910, she planned to change clothes that women wore. But over the next sixty years she did much more than that, as she became the richest and the most successful businesswoman.

Coco Chanel had no experience of business when she opened her first hat shop in Paris in 1910. She was only twenty-seven years old and she came from an ordinary family. Many of Coco`s customers in her first shop were her young women friends. They loved the simple but beautiful hats and dresses that Coco made for them, and soon her shop started to do well. (1181)

Questions.

1 What were a woman’s opportunities in business?

2 What did fashionable women use to wear?

3 Why didn’t` all women like the style of clothes which were in fashion at that time?

4 How did Coco Chanel start her business?

5 Why did Coco Chanel become famous all over the world?

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