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АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК ТЕКСТЫ ДЛЯ ЧТЕНИЯ ПО ТЕМЕ «СПОРТ В АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ СТРАНАХ» Учебное пособие по развитию навыков устной речи для бакалавров ФГБОУ ВО «РГУФКСМиТ» Москва-2016 1 Учебное пособие рекомендовано Экспертно-методическим советом Гуманитарного института ФГБОУ ВО РГУФКСМиТ Протокол № 58 от 1 июня 2016 г. <...> Пособие содержит достаточный специальный запас лексики для усвоения общепрофессиональной спортивной терминологии. <...> Sport in Canada consists of a wide variety of games. <...> There are many contests that Canadians value, the most common sports are ice hockey, lacrosse, Canadian football, soccer, basketball, curling and baseball, with ice hockey and lacrosse being the official winter and summer sports. <...> Ice hockey, referred to as simply "hockey", is Canada's most prevalent winter sport, its most popular spectator sport, and its most successful sport in international competition. <...> It is Canada's official national winter sport. <...> Lacrosse, a sport with Native American origins, is Canada's oldest and official summer sport. <...> Canadian football is Canada's second most popular spectator sport, being the most popular in the prairie provinces. <...> The Canadian Football League's annual championship, the Grey Cup, is one of the country's largest annual sports events. <...> While other sports have a larger spectator base, Association football, known in Canada as soccer in both English and French, has the most registered players of any team sport in Canada. <...> Statistics Canada reports that the top ten sports that Canadians participate in are golf, ice hockey, swimming, soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, skiing (downhill and alpine), cycling and tennis. <...> As a country with a generally cool climate, Canada has enjoyed greater success at the Winter Olympics than at the Summer Olympics, although significant regional variations in climate allow for a wide variety of both team and individual sports. <...> Major multi-sport events in Canada include the 2010 Winter Olympics. <...> Some sports, especially hockey, lacrosse and curling enjoy an international reputation as particularly Canadian. <...> Canadian sports attract large numbers of participants and huge audiences; hockey, played by 1.4 million Canadians <...>