Lesson 1. Leisure and Sport.

Type of the lesson: English practice

Age of students: 18-19 (2nd year students)

General topic of the unit: Leisure and Sport

Topic of the class: Sport: Winning or Participation?

Goals of the class: develop listening and speaking skills, and the ability to express personal opinion of the topic, learning new words.

Goals of the activity: to practice of the reading and listening skills, to train the ability to express your own thoughts.

Tasks:

1. Listen to a dialogue.

http://www.elllo.org/english/1001/1006-Winning.htm

2. Read the words which will help you to understand the dialogue better. Then listen to a dialogue once more. 

• focus on winning

When you focus on something, you concentrate your energy on that one thing. When you focus on winning, you play a sport mainly to win. You do not play the sport for fun or to learn something. Winning is the most important thing.

• force yourself

When you force yourself to do something, you make yourself do it even though you do not want to do it.

• reflect life

When something reflects life, it "mirrors" life and looks just like it .

• counterproductive

When something is counterproductive that means it serves a purpose, but at the cost of something else. For example, if you stay up studying all night for a test, it can be counterproductive because the next day you will be too tired to remember anything or be able to focus on the test.

• counter-argument

A counter-argument is an argument that goes against an original argument.

• hostile environment

In a hostile environment, people do not feel comfortable because other people make them feel not welcome or show anger or hatred towards them.

• cop out

When you cop out of something, you try to get out of or evade doing it. People are expecting you to do something, but you elect not to do it often for another reason, such as an injury or some type of excuse. For example, if you are playing soccer and losing badly, and then ask to stop playing because you are tired, then you cop out.

3. Answer the following questions about the interview.

1) Monica says winning is _______ .

a) essential
b) important
c) overemphasized

2) Todd says winning ________ .

a) serves a puprose
b) teaches people character
c) in high school is not important

3) He says winning is _______ .

a) the key to life
b) the carrot on the stick
c) the gold at the rainbow

4) Monica says competition can create ______ .

a) confusion
b) conflict
c) comradere

5) Todd says winning creates _______ .

a) drive
b) envy
c) cruelty

Home assignment:

In comments express your opinion of the following topic: "Is winning important?"