The document discusses the sport of tennis and its history in the Olympics. It provides background on tennis being played since the 11th century and first developing in the 19th century in England. Tennis was included in the 1896 Olympics but then removed until being added again in 1988. The document notes that around a quarter of Olympic sports involve balls and explores possible reasons for tennis' unusual scoring system from 15, 30, and 40 points. It also discusses theories on why players say "love" instead of zero in tennis scoring.
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2. 1. Vocabulary
a. Write the correct words in the spaces provided.
a. Serve
b. Tennis ball
c. Tennis racket
e. Backhand
f.
g. Forehand
Umpire
1
d. Tennis court
3
2
4
5
6
7
3. 2. The rules of Tennis
Tennis is played on a court, 23 metres long and 11 metres wide.
There is a net in the middle of the court. Players stand at both ends of the court
Players use a racket to hit a ball. The ball must go over the net and land inside the
court.
To start, one player hits or ‘serves’ the ball. The other player tries to hit the ball
back (or ‘returns the serve’).
When players hit the ball to each other, this is a ‘rally’. The rally continues until a
player misses the ball, hits it into the net, or out of the court.
The aim of the game is to hit the ball so that the other player misses it.
A match consists of ‘games’ and ‘sets’.
The same player serves throughout one game, then the other player serves in the
next game.
A set is a group of games. Usually the first person to win six games wins the set.
The winner of the match is the first to win either two or three sets.
Tennis has individual (or ‘singles’) and team (or ‘doubles’) events for men and
women, and mixed doubles.
a. Match the words in the table with their definitions below.
a. a set
b. a rally
c. singles
e. to serve
f.
g. to return the
serve
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
mixed doubles
d. a racket
A player does this to start a rally.
This part of a tennis match has six or more games.
In this kind of tennis match, men and women play together.
This is what a player must do after his (her) opponent serves the ball.
This piece of equipment has strings and a handle, and is used to hit the ball.
This part of a tennis game starts with a serve, and ends when a player fails to hit the
ball back.
7. In this kind of tennis match, a man plays against a man. or a woman plays against a
woman.
4. 3. Questions & Answers
Tennis? That’s not an Olympic sport, surely?
Yes it is. Why shouldn’t it be?
Well, I’m not sure… it just doesn’t seem like an Olympic sport. It’s a ball game.
Yes, it is, but the Olympics isn’t just running and jumping around, you know. In fact,
about one quarter of the summer Olympic sports are ball games.
Oh. And has tennis always been played at the Olympics?
It was played until 1924, and was then removed from the programme until 1988. But it’s
been played in every Games since then.
So, there was no tennis at the Olympics between those years?
Well, not quite. It was played as a demonstration sport in the Mexico City Olympic Games
of 1968, and in Los Angeles in 1984.
Why does tennis have such a strange system for scoring: 15, 30 and 40 points?
Why not just 1, 2 and 3 points?
Nobody knows for sure. One theory is that a clock face was used to show the score. The
hand was moved to the 15-minute position for the first point, and the 30-minute position
for the second point.
Well then, why do players go from 30 to 40 points? Shouldn’t it be 45?
Perhaps ‘45’ took too long to say, so it was abbreviated to ‘40’.
I’m not convinced. Anyway, why do they say ‘15 - love’, rather than ‘15 - zero’, or
‘15 - nil’?
Well, here’s one theory. It comes from the French ‘l’oeuf’, or ‘the egg’, because the
shape of the 0 looked like an egg.
Oh come on. You’re not serious are you?
Absolutely! And get this - scientific research has shown that top players are actually less
likely to win matches once they are married!
Really? Do we know why?
Perhaps because in tennis, ‘love’ means nothing!
5. a. What does the text tell us? Choose Yes or No.
1. The proportion of Olympic sports that use a ball.
a. Yes
b. No
2. The names of the other Olympic sports.
a. Yes
b. No
3. Reasons why tennis was removed from the Olympics after 1924.
a. Yes
b. No
4. The year when tennis reappeared as an Olympic sport.
a. Yes
b. No
5. Possible reasons for the odd scoring system in tennis.
a. Yes
b. No
6. A possible explanation of the word ‘love’ in tennis scoring.
a. Yes
b. No
7. The names of the scientists who investigated tennis and marriage.
a. Yes
b. No
8. A joke about tennis.
a. Yes
b. No
b. Complete the text with a preposition: for , for, like, from, from, than.
Tennis doesn’t seem to some people 1_______________ an Olympic sport. After
featuring in the first seven Olympics, tennis was removed 2_______________ the list
of official sports. Nobody can say 3_______________ sure why tennis has such an
odd system 4_______________ scoring (15, 30 and 40 points). It is also unclear why
players start with ‘love’, rather 5_______________ ‘nil’, like in other sports. It may be
that this comes 6_______________ ‘l’oeuf’, which means ‘the egg’ in French.
6. 4. Solution
Exercise 1a
1. b; 2. a; 3. g; 4. c; 5. e; 6. d; 7. f
Exercise 2a
1. e; 2. a; 3. f; 4. g; 5. d; 6. b; 7. c
Exercise 3a
1. Yes (Y); 2. No (N); 3. N; 4. Y; 5. Y; 6. Y; 7. N; 8. Y
Exercise 3b
1. like
2. from
3. for
4. for
5. than
6.from