Wha
t´s your favourite sport?
1. How often do you practice?
2. What equipment do you need?
3. Some Rules
The students in 1st
ESO answered to these questions and here is their report:
Basket-Ball is
good fun because it is a fast exciting sport and it is very technical. I like seeing the
American basketball but I love playing it. I practice this sport very often:
normally, I play with my friends in the team and in the street, too. I play in the
team of my town called “CB Jaca”, with my friends and acquaintances. We train
twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting at 19:00 and finishing at 20:00,
and sometimes on Fridays, but not always. Then, on Saturday mornings, I play a
basketball match with my team. We sometimes have to travel and we have to
wake up very early. There´s team spirit and we think that’s important.
Equipment In basketball, you need some specific wear because you have to run
and jump so you need basketball trainers with socks and a basketball kit with a
long basketball T-shirt (like a normal T-shirt but it doesn’t have sleeves) and
shorts.The basketball trainers are very important to play this sport. With them, you
can jump and run faster and more comfortably. And, of
course, you also need a ball and two baskets!
Rules There are from 8 to 12 players in each team but
for the game you only need 5 players in the court.
There are five positions: it depends on how tall players are, the control of the ball
and the capacity to finish the play.
To play you must bounce the ball and run very fast to the other field and put the
ball in the basket for adding two points.
Federación española de Baloncesto
It has many rules, so it’s a bit complicated, but when you play it for some time, it’s
easier.
Foul: There are some fouls in basketball, for example: Attack foul, personal foul,
technical foul… When you make a foul, the other team throws in.
Steps: You cannot walk without bouncing. When you stop and have the ball in
your hands, be careful: you can´t walk with the ball without bouncing.
Doubles: when you stop with the ball in your hands you don´t bounce it again. You
can´t walk more than two steps.
Pivot: Turn on one foot to dodge the contrary.
Foot: The basketball ball can´t touch the foot of the player.
Possession: there are 24 seconds of possession of the ball before shooting into the
basket.
Back-wards: The ball returned to the backcourt (back field) occurs when a team
has control of the ball in the front-court and one of their players is the last to touch
the ball in the frontcourt and then a team-mate touches next but he or she is still
on the back part of the court.
Don’t bounce the ball with two hands!
When the ball goes out of the field, the other team throws in.
Video: 10 best scenes ever!
Basketball We have fun with our friends.
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I like dancing, I love music and I enjoy taking part in international
contests!
Martial Arts : Judo and Taekwondo. Judo is a really fun, useful, and original sport. I like doing Judo because people usually think that it’s
only for boys, and I want to make a difference!
It consists in throwing into the floor your opponent, but no worries, there’s a pad in the floor called
“tatami”.
Equipment: you must wear the “judogui” that means in Japanese “Judo-suit”. Also, you must be in
bare feet. But you also need a belt and a pair of flip-flops!
I practice judo on Monday and Wednesday; I sometimes have a competition at the weekend and I like it
very much because, in occasions, I travel to many cities in my country but also in France
This year I’m taking a Judo-break, though. I have been doing it for the past three years but I’m not doing
it this year..
International Judo Federation
Taekwondo is fun but it’s also a little bit difficult. Taekwondo is typical from Korea. It consists in
doing exhibitions,” punsets” or fights. “ Punsets” are a combination of positions for self-defense. In the
fights you must try to overcome your opponent.
Equipment: for doing Taekwondo you need a “kimono”. Also, you must be bare-feet. The same as in
Judo, you need a belt and a pair of flip-flops to walk around the gym.
I’ve been in Taekwondo for the pasts seven years. I practice three days a week.
Video with Korean kick-names.
My favourite sport is volleyball because it is good fun and you can play
with friends or in P.E. It is easy but sometimes it can be complicated, too.
Read about the Rules in this page: FIVB
I’m not very good at sports but I love playing volleyball.
If you play with friends, you don’t need any equipment so we often play
with a pair of shorts and trainers and one t- shirt; but if you play in a team,
in your free time, you need a special tracksuit for the team, a uniform.
I play volleyball in the school or with my friends but I am
not playing in a particular team. So I often watch volleyball
on TV.
TENNIS My favorite sport is tennis because it´s fun and good exercise.
I play tennis on Thursday and Friday.
I wear a T-shirt, sweatpants, a tennis racket, tennis shoes
with socks and tennis balls.
Once, I won a 3rd category league of tennis club Jaca and
they gave us a €10 voucher (discount) to spend at
“DEPORTES CHUS” so I bought a blue jacket.
Last Friday, I broke some strings.
I love rackets
Next year, I will travel to Madrid and I will see my
tennis mates and also the tennis matches of MADRID OPEN.
Rafa won agai9n Madrid Open, on 11th May 2014.
My favourite sport is swimming because I love the water and it`s
a relaxing sport. But sometimes it´s very hard because there are
competitions and there are many people around. I`m going to be
like Michael Phelps… but, oh, it is not possible because I’m very
weak and little. �
I need a towel, a pair of goggles, a
swimming cap and a swimsuit to go
swimming and I also need a pair of flip-
flops.
My goggles are made of crystal and my
swimsuits are popular retro-style.
For practicing it, I go to the municipal swimming
pool. There I train all the Tuesdays and
Thursdays, We start at half past six and I finish at
half past seven;
Find here lots of tips for swimming lovers!
SKIING
We are from or we live in Jaca in Spain so there are many mountains
around….
Our favourite sport is skiing because it is exciting and very good fun and
we love the snow. Skiing is a fun winter-sport but it can also be
dangerous.
There are many types of skiing: ski touring, cross-country ski, alpine
skiing…
Nowadays, to practice ski you need a helmet, a pair of skis, ski- poles, a
pair of heavy boots and outdoors wear.
We practice this sport every weekend during winter and we started
about 7 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPT9vlfxQkg
Hockey
My favorite sport is ice-hockey because it is the fastest sport in
the world.
The goalkeeper needs: a mask, overalls, pass-catcher, blocker,
stick, pads and skates.
We usually train on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with sub
15 and on Fridays some weekends, too.
☺ OSTRICH RACES �
Hello I´m Mariano. I´m from Spain and my favourite sport is
Ostrich-races, but I´m not doing this sport at the moment
because in Spain there aren’t many ostriches so I sometimes
watch this sport in the internet.
An ostrich-jockey needs a helmet, comfortable clothes and a
saddle for an ostrich.
I want to do this sport when I´m older, because I love this animal
and it is fun.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4sWKo0FyEE
PS: the English teacher doesn´t agree with the use of animals
for people´s business and fun.