Sports
To keep fit we should live a healthy life. This means doing some sports
regularly. I often work out in the gym or do aerobics or yoga. I don’t pursue
any sports regularly, but sometimes I go to play games with my friends. I like
ball-games. So far, I have tried almost all of them, but of course I
like ……………. the best, because I like teamwork and it is
good fun. There are quite a few ballgames like: football,
handball, volley-ball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, ice-
hockey and water-polo. In Britain other ball games are
popular like: cricket, rugby and golf. I’m a member of the
local ………………. team. We travel a lot with the team. I
have scored …. goals this season. Sometimes I want to lose
weight so I do some kind of sport to be in good shape. I also like
swimming and hiking in the hills. We sometimes go on bicycle-tours.
Doing sports keeps you healthy both mentally and physically. I have read
that keeping fit protects you from several diseases. When you are expected to do
a lot of brain work, doing some physical activity is extremely important. Sports
contribute to your self discipline and mental development; teach you endurance
and team spirit which help you concentrate outside the world of sport.
At school we have five PE lessons a week. In my opinion it is ideal. We
have a well-equipped gym: there are balls, weights, multigyms. In spring we go
out and jog on the tracks or play ballgames on the field. Sometimes our lessons
are held in the swimming pool.
We can group sports in many ways. If we take into
consideration the seasons there are winter and summer
sports. The basic winter sports are: skiing, skating,
snowboarding, sledding, snowmobiling and ice-hockey.
During this season children like snowballing, building
snowman and sledging. As there aren’t any high
mountains in Hungary, skiing or skating or ice-hockey isn’t very popular. But I
like watching them on TV. Typical summer sports are: soccer, water sports or
tennis.
There are in-door sports and out-door sports too. Chess is played indoor,
but you can only windsurf outdoors.
The water sports are: swimming, rowing, sailing,
windsurfing, water-skiing, water polo and diving. I like
swimming and I often go to swimming pools and spas. Hot
water is very fine for the human body.
Football, handball, volleyball, water polo, table tennis
are the most popular games in Hungary. Then can come target
shooting, wrestling, boxing, rowing and gymnastics. But of course any game or
sport becomes more popular when Hungarians win their heat and qualify for the
final. We are also famous for our swimmers and water-polo team. Although
there has been a decline in football. We used to be very good at
football but I firmly believe it’ll change.
Athletics is also very popular. It includes: long or short
distance running, hammer, discus and javelin throwing high and
long jumping.
There are lots of extreme sports nowadays, such as
gliding, bungee-jumping, rafting or rock-climbing. These are said
to be dangerous. I wouldn’t like to try it because I can’t see the point
in jumping from high and then hanging upside down. A lot of people
do combat sports like kung fu, karate or judo. These sports train
our souls too.
In my opinion the most difficult sport is pentathlon where you
have to be good at 5 kinds of sports: swimming, fencing, riding,
running and shooting. I think it is very difficult to be the best in one sport, it
needs endurance.
The Olympic Games is the
most important sport event. It is
organized in every fourth year and it
is a great honour to get a gold, silver
or bronze medal. We have quite a few
Olympic winners e.g.. Krisztina
Egerszegi, Szilveszter Csollány and
our water-polo team.
