This document provides information about various sports and places for playing sports. It lists different types of stadiums, fields, pitches, courts, tracks, and rinks where different sports can be played. It also lists some other places like gyms, pools, and health clubs. It then provides a matching activity to connect different sports with their equipment. Finally, it discusses the differences between using "do", "play", and "go" with different types of sports and activities.

1. What do you like?
SPORTS

2. Sports and places
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Stadium:
a large sports field with seats all around it for people to watch team sports or
track and field competitions:

3. Sports and places
field :
a large area of ground, usually covered with grass, where team sports are
played:

4. Sports and places
pitch:
a pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game

5. Sports and places
court:
an area with lines painted on the ground

6. Sports and places
track:
a track is a piece of ground which athletes, cyclists, cars, or horses race around.

7. Sports and places
rink:
a building with a specially prepared area with a smooth surface where you can
skate

8. Sports and places
Other places:
gym: a large room with machines which you can use to do exercises
.
(swimming) pool: a place where you can swim
.
health club: a building where you can do various different sports
course:
an area of land or water where races are held, or an area of land designed for playing
golf

9. Equipment
Match the name of sport with its equipment:
ski poles, skis, boots, goggles table tennis
net, bat, little ball diving
snorkel, fins, goggles football
horse, saddle, jockey skiing
balls, cue, table ice-hockey
ball, racket, court horse-racing
stick, puck, helmet billiards
ball, goal, goalkeeper boxing
gloves, ring, referee chess
king, queen, chessboard tennis

10. Do, play or go?
Play is used with ball sports or competitive games where we play against
another person:
'How often do you play tennis?' - tennis is a ball sport.
'I play poker with my friends on Friday night.' - poker is a competitive game. We play to win.
'I don't like playing computer games.' - again, computer games are competitive so we use play.
Do is used for a recreational activity or a non-team sport that does not use a
ball:
'I heard that you do karate.' - karate is a non-team activity.
'I do crossword puzzles in my free time.' - crossword puzzles are not competitive.
Go is used with activities that end -ing. We go somewhere to do something:
'I'm going fishing on Sunday.'
'Are you going skiing this winter?'
'She said she was going swimming.'

11. Activity 1
This sport is played on a pitch in summer or in a sports hall
in winter. There are eleven players in each team.
The players are dressed in shorts and T-shirts and they
have got special boots on their feet. They play the game with
a ball. The aim of the game is to score a goal. It takes 90
minutes to play this game, sometimes there is extra time or
penalties. This sport has become very popular all around the
world and the best players are well-paid - they have become
millionaires.
What´ s its name?
now you choose a sport and describe it

12. Activity 1I
Go to the suggested website, browse through and decide
on the equipment we need to buy for our next camping
trip.
Make a list and calculate the expenses.
http://www.basecamp.ie/