Soccer/sport/friends SPEAKING 4 Soccer/sport/friends

Task 1. You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1 Task 1. You are going to read the text aloud. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, and then be ready to read it aloud. Remember that you will not have more than 2 minutes for reading aloud. Soccer is very old. This kind of football was played in China and Japan nearly two thousand years ago. In 1314 the English king Edward III said that football was bad and very dangerous as a great number of people got hurt. Some years later, another English king, Richard III said that all football must stop. But the modern game comes from the Football Association which was started in London in 1863. Then it decided to give a Сup to the best team. Fifteen teams played against each other and the Wanderers won the first FA Cup Final. This was the beginning of modern soccer. At first players were not paid to play football. They were amateurs. But by the 1880s, football clubs were paying men to play: these were the first professionals. Then men began to play football in other countries. At last when FIFA appeared the rules for football were made.

Task 2. You are going to take part in a telephone survey Task 2. You are going to take part in a telephone survey. You have to answer six questions. Give full answers to the questions. Remember that you have 40 seconds to answer each question. Do you play any sports? 1____________________________________ What are the most popular sports in your country? 2_____________________________________ What kind of extreme sports do you know? 3_____________________________________ Would you like to take up an extreme sport? 4_____________________________________ Why do extreme sports attract young people so much? 5_____________________________________ What are disadvantages of extreme kinds of sport? 6______________________________________

how important it is to have friends what the real friend is Task 3. You are going to give a talk about friends. You will have to start in 1.5 minutes and speak for not more than 2 minutes. You have to talk continuously. Remember to say: how important it is to have friends what the real friend is what is more difficult to make friends or to keep them

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