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Anglický Jazyk - Maturitní Téma c.2 Maturitní Téma Č.2 Sports and Games

Sport and games are important for physical and mental health, providing active relaxation. The main difference is that games involve collective participation like football or basketball, while sports tend to be more individual activities like tennis or swimming. Some sports and games are played indoors, like basketball and gymnastics, while others are outdoors, such as golf, skiing, baseball, and riding. Many sports originated in Great Britain, including cricket, football, golf, and tennis. Major annual sporting events in the UK include Wimbledon, the British Open Golf Championship, and the Grand National horse race. In the US, popular sports are baseball, basketball, ice hockey, and golf, with strong school and college sports programs. Important worldwide sporting events

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Anglický Jazyk - Maturitní Téma c.2 Maturitní Téma Č.2 Sports and Games

Sport and games are important for physical and mental health, providing active relaxation. The main difference is that games involve collective participation like football or basketball, while sports tend to be more individual activities like tennis or swimming. Some sports and games are played indoors, like basketball and gymnastics, while others are outdoors, such as golf, skiing, baseball, and riding. Many sports originated in Great Britain, including cricket, football, golf, and tennis. Major annual sporting events in the UK include Wimbledon, the British Open Golf Championship, and the Grand National horse race. In the US, popular sports are baseball, basketball, ice hockey, and golf, with strong school and college sports programs. Important worldwide sporting events

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Anglick jazyk - maturitn tma c.

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MATURITN TMA .2
Sports and games
Sport and games are very important for active relaxation and are also important for our physical
and mental health.
The main difference between sport and game is that game is the collective and the sport is more
individual - it means football or basketball are games and e.g. tennis or swimming are sports.
We can practise some of sports and games indoor and some of them outdoor. In the first group
there are e.g. ice-hockey, basketball, handball, figure skating or gymnastics and in the second group
there are e.g. baseball, golf, winter sports such as skiing (slalom, down-hill, ski-jump), rellyes or
riding. There are also sports for both indoor and outdoor - swimming, athletics (sprint, jump,
javelin), football, tennis, volleyball etc. Some sports such as diving, windsurfing or racing can be
quite dangerous and very expensive.
Many sports have their origin in Great Britain (England). The most specific is cricket, often called
the English national sport. It has never been adopted in foreign countries (expect the
Commonwealth states). Also football, golf and tennis are very popular there. Rugby (rugby football)
is very popular in Scotland and has its origin there, quite popular are rowing 1 and horse-riding too.
The major sports events of the year in UK are The Grand Slam Tennis Tournament in Wimbledon (in
London), The British Open Golf Championship and The Grand National (horse-riding steeple-chase
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). In Great Britain the old clubs of aristocracy and very rich people have a big prestige and very long
tradition.
In the USA there are especially baseball and basketball (NBA), which have its origin there, icehockey (NHL) and golf very popular. There is a long tradition of school sport clubs at all of the high
schools and collages. Many Americans exercise for good health every day - fitness and keeping fit is
an important part of American way of life.
There are also very important worlds sport events. The most famous are The Olympic Games
(the Olympics), which are held every four years and have got its summer and winter part, which
change once every two years. Other important events (which are held annually or every two years)
are The World and The European Championships and Cups in almost every type of sports (e.g. in
football, athletics, swimming, skiing etc.), The Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments, The Formula One
Championship etc.

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