Unit 6
Part I
A
1. straight 2. apart 3. by your sides 4. Relax
1. breath 2. your arms to shoulder height /them out sideways
3. your right arm down to touch your left toes / your left arm stretched out
Your knees
5. your left hand down to touch your right toes
6. up again
Right everyone. Stand straight ---- feet apart --- hands by your sides. Relax. Everybody ready? Right ---- a nice deep breath --- now raise your arms to shoulder height and stretch tem out sideways. Good --- now swing your right arm down to touch your left toes --- keep your left arm stretched out. Don’t bend your knees --- your legs should be straight --- and up straight again. Now your left hand down to touch your right toes --- and up again. Everybody happy? Now let’s do this with a bit of rhythm. Right down, touch
your toes and up --- left down, touch your toes and up --- and again. Right down, touch your toes and up --- left down, touch your toes and up ----keep those knees straight. Now keep going until I tell you to stop.
B
1. In track events, Usain Bolt from Jamaica is the fastest man in 100 meters dash. His recod is seconds and was set on August 16, 2008.
2. Florance Griffith-Joyner from the USA set the record for the women’s 100 meter dash in seconds on July 16, 1988.
3. The men’s 1,500 meter race world record was set by Hicham El Gurerouj from Morocco on July 14, 1998, and his record is 3 minutes 26 seconds.
4. The fastest woman in the world in 1,500 meters race is Qu Yunxia from China. Her record is 3 minutes 50,46 seconds and she set the record on September 11, 1993.
5. The world record for men’s 110 meters hurdles was set by Dayron Robles from Cuba on June 13, 2008. the record is seconds.
6. The gold medal winner for the women’s 100 meters hurdles is Yordanka Donkova from Bulgaria, and her record is seconds. That was set on
August 20, 1988.
7. in 20 kilometers race walk for men, Vladimir Kanaykin from Russia is the gold medal winner. His record is 1 hour 17 minutes 16 seconds. It was set on September 29, 2007.
8. in 20 kilometers race walk for women, the record is 1 hour 25 minutes and 41 seconds, which was set by Olimpiada Ivanova from Russia on August 7, 2005.
9. Who is the wrodl record holder for men’s marathon? It’s Haile Gebbrselassie from Ethiopia, and his record is 2 hours 4 minutes 26 seconds. He set the record on September 30, 2007.
10. Fro women’s marathon, Paula Radcliffe from Great Britain holds the record in 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds. The record was set on April 13, 2003.
11. In field events, Javier Sotomayor from Cuba is the man who jumps highest in the world. His record is meters. It was set on July 27, 1993.
12. Stefa Kostadianova from Bulgaria seized the gold medal fro women’s high jump on August 30, 1987. her record is meters
13. The world record fro men’s long jump owes to Mike Powell from
the USA, whose recored is meters. He set his record on August 30, 1991.
14. The world record fro women’s long jump owes to Dalina Chistyakova from the fromer Soviet Union, whose record is meters. She set this record on June 11, 1988.
15. In the men’s javelin throw, the world record holder is Jan Zelezny from Czech Republic. His record is meters, which was set on May 25, 1996.
16. Osleidys Menendez from Cuba is the world holder for the women’s javelin throw. Her record is meters, which was set on August 14, 2005.
C.
China/ 110-meter hurdles / Switzerland / finish line / seconds / shared with / three one hundredth / old record / seconds / seconds / 22-year-old 75,000 km Jason Lewis, 40, crossed five continents , two oceans and a sea to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe under his own steam.
He finally returned to the UK on Saturday, crossing the Greenwich Meridian Line, in his custom-designed, 26ft (8 m), pedal-powered boat, “Moksha”. It was the same point where his journey began on 12 July, 1994 when he was just 26 years old.
Jason used a variety of modes of transport during his epic journey, including cycling, swimming, kayaking, and in-line skating. His route took him west from Britain to the USA and then on to Australia, Asia, and Africa before returning to Europe from the east.
The journey was not without dangers: in Colrado Jason was run over by a drunk driver while in-line skating at the side of the road. He spent six weeks in hospital an nearly had a limb amputated.
As well as surviving the car accident, Jason was robbed and beaten several times on his journey, chansed by a giant crocodile in Australia, and arrested by the Egyptian military as a suspected spy. But on the way he has raised money fro children’s charities around the world as well as developing an education program for schoolchildren based on his travels.
What now for the world traveler?
Jason is happy to be back and may hang up his boots for a while.
“I’ve seen enough deserts. I’ve missed green rolling hills and cozy pubs, sitting by the fire drinking a pint of warm beer, ” said Jason.
“I do miss British humor. It’s nice to be with people who take the Mickey out of each other.”
B:
German ace Michael Schumacher is widely recognized as being the world’s best ever racing driver. In 1995 Michael became the youngest double Formula 1 World Champion (1994-1995 seasons) ever. He is also the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 World Champion. This phenomenal record speaks for itself. In 2003 he beat Juan Manuel Fangio’s five championships form the 1950s, by taking his sixth! He has now retired form F1, at the end of the 2006 season.
The 2004 championship was secured by Michael before its conclusion, making it tile number 7. He did it by finishing 2nd at Spa in Belgium, in Ferrari’s 700th race, to accumulate enough points to seal the deal.
Michael also holds the F1 records for : most career wins (91), most wins in a season (13 in 2004 ), most career pole positions ( 66), most points during a season ( 148 in 2004), most consecutive world championships ( 5 from 2000 to 2004), most consecutive race wins (7 in 2004 ), most laps leading ( 69),most fastest laps ( 76), plus several others!
Michael is the highest paid racing driver in the world and second highest earning sportsman in the world, earning a reputed US$80 million in 2004 ( $40 million of which was his salary from Ferrari)
Part III
A
1. March 29, 1981 / 20,000 / 7,474 /6,255
2. grow in size
3. over 413, 481
4. 30,809 / 1999
5. a charity fund-raising event / over 80 million pounds
B
Twice
26 miles and a little bit more.
Running a maximum of about 20 miles a week.
Worried / nervous / concerned about the injury to his ankle.
When he realized that he was not able to complete the last 3 miles as fast as the previous 23
2 hours 47 minutes.
J --- John R --- Ruth
J: I did the Marathon, that’s the London Marathon, last year and this year, those are the only Marathon I’ve done.
R: so you’ve done it twice?
J: (I’ve) done the London Marathon twice --- that’s right!
R: Wow --- how far is it?
J: It’s 26 miles and a little bit more ---- I don’t know exactly how many extra yards and by that stage I’m not counting.
R: well, wh-what do you do to prepare for it?
J: ah… in my case, I did a little bit more running than I normally do….
R: And what do you normally do?
J: Well, I go out running about once a week, for about an hour, and I only did a little bit more for the London Marathon than I would normally do, so I was running a maximum of about 20 miles a week. I never did any more than that.
R: And do you do keep fit exercises and things, or is it just running?
J: When I go out running I tend to get home and within a couple of minutes of getting home, I’m out there --- on the streets --- with no warming up exercises or anything. But it’s best to do warming up exercises beforehand. I never seem to get round to doing them.
R:Ha ! Why not?
J: laziness, I think!
R: How did you feel at the start of the race?
J: I was still very worried about an injury to my , to my foot….
R: To your foot?
J: Well, actually to my ankle
R: From running?
J: I hurt my ankle playing football about three days before.
R: so you were quite nervous.
J: I was quite nervous. So I was nervous about my ankle and I was very concerned about making sure I kept up with the time that I hoped to run each mile during the race. And I was hoping to run each mile in round about seven
minutes. Because the whole field moved very slowly at the start, the first mile marker went by and I’d taken nine and a half minutes to run.
R: so you were going too slowly
J: so I was going too slowly. And I remembered then same thing happened last year when I did the Marathon.
R: What was your …. Can you remember your worst moment in the race?
J: I didn’t really feel in pain or worried until right at the end when I realized that I was unable to complete the last three miles of the race as fast as I’d done the previous 23.
R: So what was your final time?
J: my time was 2 hours and 47 minutes
R: that’s pretty good, isn’t it? That’s quite fast!
J: it was certainly half an hour faster than the time I put up last year anyway!
R: That’s wonderful! Are you going to do it next year?
J: I tried to do it next year, but I’ve missed the qualifying date.
R: so you haven’t got a place.
J: I haven’t got a place. But there’s a running club I belong to, and they get one spare place. So all the runners who haven’t got in, their names go into the hat and with any luck my name will be the lucky one. And in fact that’s how I got into the London Marathon in the first place, it was really just a lucky chance last year.
R: oh I see. Well, good luck with it then.
J: Thank you very much, Ruth.
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