2. Match the following words and combinations with their English equivalents.

1. церемония открытия	a) International Olympic Committee (IOC)
2. соревнование	b) to set a record
3. церемония закрытия	c) Olympic flag
4. Международный олимпийский комитет (МОК)	d) medal table
5. мировой рекорд	e) to compete
6. олимпийский рекорд	f) opening ceremony
7. парное соревнование	g) competition
8. командное соревнование	h) closing ceremony
9. участник соревнования	i) Olympic record
10. установить рекорд	j) doubles event
11. команда	k) competitor
12. страна-хозяйка Олимпиады	l) world record
13. олимпийский флаг	m) team event
14. соревноваться	n) team
15. медальная таблица	o) host country of the Olympiad

3. Answer the following questions.

1. How many Olympic events were held in Beijing?

2. What countries sent the largest teams to the Beijing Olympics?

3. What countries participated in the Olympic Games for the first time?

4. How many Olympic events were held for the first time? What are they?

5. How many world records were set during the 2008 Olympic Games?

6. How many Olympic records were set during the Beijing Olympics?

7. What country won the most medals?

8. What sportsman won the most gold medals?

9. Where were the opening and the closing ceremonies held?

10. Where will the 2012 Summer Olympic Games be held?

4. Give the summary of the text (Consult Appendix 1 on page 57).

Part II

Unit 5 A QUESTION OF SPORT

Sports stars Read the text and say who of these sportspeople:

has got 17 Ferraris	has got 2 World Championship medals
lives in Madrid	lives in Sofia
has got 9 children	drinks 1 or 2 bottles of wine on Sunday night
trains for 4 hours a day	eats 40 eggs a week
drinks 12 litres of milk a day	goes to 20 different countries every year
has got $10 million in the bank	has got 3 Harley Davidson motorbikes
lives in the USA	drinks 8 litres of water a day

Sergei Bugalov.

Sergei is a weightlifter and he lives in Bulgaria. He's got three Olympic gold medals, and trains for six hours every day. He usually eats forty eggs and ten kilos of meat a week. He also drinks twelve litres of milk a day! He lives in a big flat in Sofia with his wife and nine children.

Silvia Martinez.

Silvia is a tennis player from Spain. She lives near Madrid and there are two swimming pools and six tennis courts in her garden. She trains for four hours every day. She drinks three litres of fruit juice a day, and eats fourty or sixty bananas a week.

She's very rich and has got $10 million in the bank!

Christina Jones.

Christina is from the USA, and is a marathon runner. She runs two hundred kilometres every week, and has got two World Championship medals. She usually eats one kilo of fish and drinks eight litres of water a day. Every year she goes to twenty different countries. She hasn't got a car, but she's got three Harley Davidson motorbikes!

Antonio Crespo.

Antonio is a footballer, and he lives in Italy. He plays about fifty matches every year and visits ten different countries. He usually eats five kilos of pasta a week, and drinks one or two bottles of wine on Sunday night. He's very rich, and has got three houses and seventeen Ferraris!