Audio Zepis Nomercious Naziti kopra Adin Speaker 1 People in Great Britain, like everyone else, like sports and games.0:01
If you ask them what their favorite sports are, they will probably name football, cricket and tennis.0:14
Though many of them play golf, rugby or hockey or do athletics, rock climbing, mountaineering, horse riding or boating.0:20
Speaker 2 Football first appeared in England.0:32
Nowadays it is one of the most popular team games all over the world.0:38
People love football and play it in all parts of the United Kingdom, in England and Wales.0:44
In Scotland and Northern Ireland, they play it all year round.0:51
There are many football clubs in the UK.0:58
Speaker 3 Cricket is another popular game in Britain.1:03
Sometimes people say it is typically English.1:10
They play cricket in schools, colleges and universities.1:12
In most towns in Britain, teams play weekly games from late April to the end of September.1:16
Cricket is a long game.1:23
It is a slow game too.1:25
Some cricket matches can last for five days.1:27
Speaker 4 Boxing as a British sport is one of the oldest, but it had appeared long before it came to the British Isles.1:32
The first boxing matches took place in Greece.1:42
The Greek sportsmen didn't wear boxing gloves then and it was a very dangerous sport.1:47
Boxing became quite fashionable in Britain in the 18th century.1:53
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