Olympic Sports: Manual for Studying the Course “English for Specific Purposes for the first and second-year students of the specialities “Physical Training”, “Sport” and “Human’s Health”. - 2013.

Abstract

The manual is designed for studying the course “English for Specific Purposes” for the first and second-year students of the specialities “Physical Training”, “Sport” and “Human’s Health”. The manual consists of 14 units for learning the main peculiarities of Olympic sports, wordlist for expansion students’ professional vocabulary, grammar section for learning grammar constructions in use. Each unit includes a number of texts on sport topics, which are intended for reading in a class and for independent students’ work. Different complication of authentic texts allows using them for reading with understanding, translation, discussion and annotating. Various exercises will help to prepare students for speaking on professional topics, to compare truthful information about different Olympic events, improve their communicative and social competence, develop creativity and positively influence on forming of students’ motivation to study English.