In our class there are many good skiers.0:06
John thinks he's the best, but I know that Andrew ski is much better.0:09
I am not bad at skiing.0:14
There are three more boys in my class who are not bad at skiing either.0:15
Mike is probably the worst skier in our class.0:20
He's quite a bad skier.0:22
The sport I like best is skiing.0:27
I think it's the most exciting sport of all.0:30
I believe it's certainly more interesting and more fun to go skiing than to go swimming or anything else.0:33
I also think that it is more fun to do cross country skiing than normal skiing.0:39
The kind of skiing I like least is downhill skiing.0:44
It's much too dangerous.0:47
Last Christmas I spent two weeks at a skiing school.0:52
It wasn't much fun really.0:55
First we all got up at 6:30 every morning.0:58
We also made our beds ourselves.1:03
Then we went to the gym to do 20 minutes of exercise.1:06
And then after that we had our breakfast.1:09
At 9 o' clock the training began.1:12
We didn't stop until 10:30 and then we had a 20 minute coffee break.1:15
After the break we went to the hills again and skied till lunchtime.1:20
You can imagine how tired we were.1:24
Some people say that skiing goes back to the Stone Age.1:30
Long before Christianity appeared, people used skis in Scandinavia.1:34
They even had a goddess of skiing and they went to God when was shown on a pair of skis.1:39
The first skis were often made of animal bones and were used as a kind of transport.1:45
Skiing as a sport began in Norway in winter.1:53
Snow covered the ground there for long periods of time.1:57
It was necessary to use skis to get about.2:01
When people went hunting in the mountains or had to visit neighbouring villages or go to visit the market, they had to use skis.2:05
It may surprise you to know that there were skiing competitions for prizes in 1767.2:14
In his interview, Tony Klemmer, a famous downhill skier, speaks about his favorite sport.2:23
He says skiing is an exciting and healthy sport that keeps people fit.2:29
It is great fun for many skiers to take part in competitions.2:34
But Tony admits that sometimes accidents happen when people ski.2:39
He says that skiing can be dangerous.2:44
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