10.Talk about the competitive nature of sports and the feelings of rivalry involved. (Where Have All the Fans Gone? The Sporting Spirit).

To begin with, I would like to say that nowadays professional sports seems less to do with enjoyment and more to do with making money. Besides, international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred; Actually nearly all sports are competitive. People don’t enjoy the game as their try to do their utmost to win. For. ex. on the village field, where it's possible to play just for fun, people don’t do that because the question of prestige arises.

At the international level sport looks like a mimic warfare, and the worst of this is that spectators who work themselves into a furies seriously believe that winning at sports shows that a country is better, that sports is a feet of national virtue.

The act I want to point out here is that people want to see one side on top and the other side humiliated. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all the rules .Moreover, the point I want to stress here is that television and media play an important role in it. There is much football on TV and they show only exciting parts, goals, fouls, and violence. They only show young people when they are doing something wrong. As a result, people have stopped going to the matches and prefer staying at home watching on TV. They get a better view and they like the action replays. They confess that they are afraid to go to the matches with children, because there are many gangs of teenagers who are not interested in football, but just they come to look for trouble. Besides, there is too much foul language.

In conclusion, I want to say that I see the solution to the problem in educating children since childhood. There ought to be more discipline at home and in schools.

Analyze:One of the features is modality,the author’s attitude towards the facts, events and people described.Text modality may be broadly divided into neutral and non-neutral.The latter in its turn may be positive and negative. It is obvious that the text is totally negative. The author is not only categorical in his criticism of sport, he is trying to impose his opinion on the reader.

11. Talk about different attitudes to sports in society. (The Sporting Spirit, Americans' Attitude to Sports)

There are different attitudes to sports in our society nowadays.

For some people it’s a wonderful way to get rid of tension and to let off the steam. Sport provides an opportunity for people to express themselves in a way that is not always possible in work life. It gives a challenge and can break down economic and social barriers.

Many people overwhelmingly appreciate in their culture. They think that spectator sports have a positive impact on society, that competitive sports help children to learn valuable life lessons. A lot of people consider sports participation to help people get along with those from different racial or ethic groups. Sports involvement is also thought to help people in the business world and to get along better with people of the opposite sex.

At the same time there is a growing evidence of the flip side. And to my mind the number of negative views has increased.

To begin with, I would like to say that nowadays professional sports seems less to do with enjoyment and more with making money.

More and more people come to think that sport can't create good relationships between nations. Some international competitions end in orgies of hatred because of nationalism and racism.

Nearly all kinds of sport nowadays are competitive. People don’t enjoy the game as their try to do their utmost to win. For. ex. on the village field, where it's possible to play just for fun, people don’t do that because the question of prestige arises.

At the international level sport sometimes looks like a mimic warfareand the worst of this is that spectators who work themselves into a furies seriously believe that winning at sports shows that a country is better, that sports is a feet of national virtue.

Many people are convinced that professional sport has nothing to do with fair play because it's bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all the rules .

Analyze:One of the features is modality,the author’s attitude towards the facts, events and people described.Text modality may be broadly divided into neutral and non-neutral.The latter in its turn may be positive and negative. It is obvious that the text is totally negative. The author is not only categorical in his criticism of sport, he is trying to impose his opinion on the reader.