Traditional Sports and Games in the UK

Муниципальное общеобразовательное учреждение

«Средняя школа № 102 Дзержинского района Волгограда»

Traditional sports and games in the U.K.

Выполнил: ученик 8 «А» класса МОУ СШ №102

Абдул Пацон Манан

Руководитель:

Макарова Юлия Александровна,

учитель английского языка

Волгоград, 2020

British people are known to be great sport-lovers when they are neither playing nor watching games the British are fond of talking about them .

Soccer

Many kinds of sport originated from the U.K.

Football is one of the most popular games in Great Britain. It`s sometimes called association football or soccer .

Football is not just an English national sport, but a huge and deep part of English culture. Every British school has a football section, and UK football fields are never empty.

An interesting conversation about football clubs, rules of the game, significant matches can be maintained with almost any Englishman.

Soccer in its present form dates back to 1863 when eleven clubs got together in London to form the Football Association.

In the next 20 years many England`s great clubs were born.

Arsenal , one of the famous English clubs was founded in 1886 by workers at the Woolwich Arsenal.

The first F.A. Cup Final was played in 1871 at Kennington Oval in South London.

Nowadays the Premier League in England is considered to be the most popular in the world. English football clubs Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea are the most successful clubs.

Rugby

There is also rugby football. Rugby originated from Rugby school in Warwickshire. For many years Rugby was only played by the rich upper classes, but now it is popular all over the country. There are two different types of rugby- Rugby league, played mainly in the north of England and Rugby Union, played in the rest of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Cricket

Cricket is another well-known English summer game. It has been played since the 18th century. By 1744 written rules of the game appeared. The first recorded game was played in 1697.

The bat is the emblem of cricket. A match is played by two teams of eleven players each. It may be a one-day match or it may last two or three days. The matches between the national teams of England, Australia, New Zealand and some other countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

Boat-Racing

Racing is very popular in Great Britain. There are different kinds of racing: horse-racing, motorcar racing, dog-racing. But the most famous race is boat-race between the oarsmen of Oxford vs Cambridge universities.

This annual contest first took place in 1820-1829 and became an established day in 1839 on boat race Saturday the banks of the Thames are crowded with people.

To be a member of a boat race crew is a great honour for students of both Universities.

In my opinion, traditional sports and games are the mirror to knowing one country’s customs and traditions and allow us to have a deeper understanding of people’s lifestyle.

So I would like to conclude by a well-known phrase: So many countries so many traditions but we should remember there is one thing which unites us. It’s sport! People all over the world enjoy playing and watching sports and games.