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Sport in the USA — Спорт в США (2)

Americans’ interest in sports seems excessive to many foreign visitors. Television networks spend millions of dollars arranging to telecast sports events. Publications about sports are sold widely. In the US professional athletes can become national heroes.
Sports are associated with educational institutions in a way which is unique. High schools have coaches as faculty members, and school teams compete with each other.
Nowhere else in the world are sports associated with colleges and universities in the way they are in the States. College sports, especially football, are conducted in an atmosphere of intense excitement and pageantry. Games between teams attract nationwide television audiences.
The sport that is most popular in most parts of the world — soccer — is not well known in the US. The most popular sports are football and baseball, games that are not played in large number of countries.
Sports play such an important role in American

life that the sociology of sports, sports medicine, and sports psychology have become respectable specializations.
Many Americans jog every day, or play tennis or bridge two or three times a week. They go on ski trips and hunting expeditions that require weeks of planning and organizing. In the Americans’ view, all these activities are worth the discomfort they may cause because they contribute to health and physical fitness. That is probably why Americans are known as a healthy nation.

Спорт в США (2)

Интерес американцев к спорту кажется чрезмерным многим иностранцам. Телекомпании тратят миллионы долларов на трансляцию спортивных событий. Публикации о спорте быстро раскупаются. В США профессиональные спортсмены могут стать национальными героями.
Спорт связан с системой образования уникальным способом. Тренеры работают

в школах как члены преподавательского состава, и команды соревнуются между собой.
Нигде в мире спорт не связан с университетами и колледжами так, как в США. Спортивные игры в колледже, особенно футбольные матчи, проводятся в атмосфере особой пышности. Игры между командами привлекают внимание общенациональной аудитории.
Вид спорта, который очень популярен во многих странах мира, английский футбол (соккер), не очень известен в Штатах. Самые популярные виды спорта — американский футбол й бейсбол, игры, которые не распространены во многих странах.
Спорт играет такую большую роль в жизни американцев, что социология спорта, спортивная медицина и психология стали уважаемыми профессиями.
Многие американцы каждый день бегают или играют в теннис или бридж два-три раза в неделю. Они отправляются в лыжные путешествия или охотничьи экспедиции, которые требуют нескольких недель подготовки. С точки зрения американцев, эти занятия стоят того дискомфорта, который они могут создавать, так как они дают здоровье и хорошую физическую форму. Может быть, поэтому американцы считаются «здоровой нацией».

Questions:

1. Are Americans interested in sports?
2- Do professional athletes become national heroes?
3. Are there sport teams in high schools?
4. Are there any coaches in the faculty?
5. What are the most popular sports in the USA?
6. What specializations have become respectable thanks sport?
7. Why do Americans spend so much time on sport activities?

Vocabulary:

Excessive — чрезмерный
unique — уникальный, единственный в своем роде
high school — средняя школа
coach — тренер
pageantry — пышность, блеск
sociology — социология
to require — требовать
to contribute — способствовать
physical — физический

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