Упр.3 Юнит 1 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Rainbow English 8 класс
3. Listen to the text and answer the following questions. 1. Who were the people to play lacrosse at the beginning?
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3. Listen to the text and answer the following questions.
1. Who were the people to play lacrosse at the beginning?
2. Do lacrosse players use only their feet to score goals?
3. Why is skill especially important in this game?
4. How many different kinds of the game do people play nowadays?
Текст аудирования:
One of the oldest games in the world appeared on the American continent. Native Americans invented it many centuries ago but people still play it nowadays. It’s a team game and its aim is to score as many goals as possible by shooting a ball into your opponent’s goal. It may sound like football, only in football you pass the ball with your feet while in this game you use a stick with a small net on its end. We know the game under its French name “lacrosse” but the Native Americans called it “the little brother of war”. They played the game on big fields up to 3 kilometres long where the goals were very far from each other and there could be from one hundred to one thousand players in each team. Like in real war the players tried to knock out as many of the other side as possible, so as to leave a clear path to the goal. The winning team left lots and lots of injured players behind it. It was a way of testing a man’s strength, courage and skill. Skill was especially necessary for carrying the ball, which is very difficult in this game. The trouble is that the ball easily falls out of the net and then the player has to pick it up before his opponents do it.
Today people play lacrosse in several ways: they are men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, mixed lacrosse and pop lacrosse. Men’s lacrosse is a contact sport like rugby. It’s a rough game in which a player can knock his opponent over with his stick. This is why athletes wear protective clothing — helmets, gloves and arm padding. In women’s lacrosse there is only contact between sticks. Women may knock the ball out of an opponent’s stick, but there must be no body blows and no violence. Mixed lacrosse teams include both men and women or boys and girls. Mixed lacrosse is popular in universities and secondary schools. Pop lacrosse is completely non-contact. Players mustn’t touch each other and there should be no contact between sticks. Pop lacrosse is mostly a game for younger children.
Canadians love lacrosse and call it their national game. In the 20th century lacrosse began to be played in other English-speaking countries — the USA, Great Britain and Australia. Nowadays there are international lacrosse competitions, several times lacrosse became an Olympic sport.