Unit 1 audio Zaipishna Meradin Kuprazny NYU Adin Listen to the text and match its parts with their titles.0:00
In your workbook, there is one title you don't have to use.0:08
A lot of people in Russia enjoy watching and playing ice hockey.0:12
We often think and say that it's our national sport, though.0:16
In fact, ice hockey was born in Montreal, Canada in 1877.0:20
That was the year when Canadian students at McGill University invented the first seven rules for the game.0:26
Two years later, in 1879, the first organized team, the McGill University Hockey Club, was formed.0:33
Very soon, the sport became popular all over Canada.0:41
By 1893, there were almost a hundred teams in Montreal alone.0:44
By the beginning of the 20th century, the game of ice hockey quickly spread to Great Britain and other European countries.0:50
In in 1917, the USA and Canada founded the National Hockey League.0:57
Nowadays, ice hockey is an Olympic sport and the most popular team sport played on ice.1:03
Hockey is also the world's fastest game.1:10
Players often skate 48 kilometers per hour.1:13
They get tired very quickly.1:17
Hockey players leave a game quite often and other players come in to substitute them.1:19
In hockey, players use hockey sticks and a puck.1:26
The colder it is, the better the puck slides on the ice.1:30
That's why players often put the puck in the freezer before a game.1:34
In some games, players use more than 30 pucks.1:39
The puck moves faster than the players.1:43
Hockey players are heavy and pucks are not.1:46
Sometimes pucks go at 160 kilometers per hour.1:50
As you see, hockey looks easy to play, but it isn't.1:54
Hockey is a dangerous game.1:59
Today, players wear special clothes to protect their bodies.2:01
Goalkeepers wear special masks to protect their faces.2:06
A goalkeeper without a mask can break his nose or teeth.2:10
In the past, there were many plays without their front teeth.2:14
People play hockey not only on ice fields.2:19
For example, there is street hockey, for which you don't need any ice.2:22
This type of hockey was also born in Canada and is now popular in many countries because you can play it all year round and in lots of places.2:26
Car parks, school yards, empty streets.2:34
You wear tennis shoes, not ice skates.2:36
And you can use a ball or a puck.2:39
But the tactical methods and the rules are the same.2:41
Street hockey is especially popular with young people.2:44
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