UNIVERSITATEA SPIRU HARET

Departamentul de Limbaje specializate

FACULTATEA DE EDUCAŢIE FIZICĂ ŞI SPORT

SPECIALIZAREA: SPORT
LIMBA ENGLEZA

Denumirea cursului: English for Sports Students

Manual recomandat: Iulian Cănănău, English for Sports Students, Ed. Fundaţiei România de Mâine,
Bucureşti, 2001

Prezentarea cursului/Rezumatul cursului: This practical English course is designed as an ESP course
(English for Specific Purposes) and its main purpose is to make students familiar with the basic
specialized vocabulary necessary in the sports field. The practical handbook used during the
seminars – English for Sports Students – is divided into 8 Units, each consisting of texts about the
major sport events and competitions, vocabulary exercises and grammar exercises. The grammatical
elements that are to be reviewed in this year of study are: verbal tenses, adverbs – degrees of
comparison, Gerund and Participles and modal verbs. The study of sports related vocabulary is
focused on assimilating a considerable number of terms designating names of sports, sports events
and International Sports Organizations. Each Unit contains an exercise of Comprehension Check and
basic information about the grammatical element specific to that Unit. Students will be encouraged
to use the new vocabulary in contexts of their own and to practise their conversational skills in
artificially created situational contexts (Role playing: interviewing an athlete, commenting live on a
football match, presenting the Sports Flash News, etc.).
Considering the limited period of time allocated to this English course (1 semester), only the first 5
Units of the above mentioned handbook are obligatory for the final exam, the rest of the Units
being optional.

Lista subiectelor posibile

1) When did the Olympic games begin and who was their promoter?
2) Which is the authority that governs the Olympic Games?
3) What is the difference between the Olympic Games and the Olympian ones?
4) Enumerate the main sports events that are part of the Olympic Games.
5) Name the track and field events and describe each of them.
6) Name the running events and mention what type of physical skills are tested in these events.
7) Name the jumping events and describe the steps that are to be followed by athletes in each
event.
8) Name the throwing events and search on the Internet the best records in the history of
throwing events.
9) What do you understand by combined events?

Aplicaţii /Teste pentru autoevaluare la temele tratate:

Final exam - test sample (Blackboard Platform) – Test yourself!

Multiple choice exercises:
Choose the correct answer (only one answer is possible for all exercises):
1. The Olympic Games represent the modern revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of
international athletic and sporting contests held ..................... in a selected country since their
inception in Athens in 1896.
a. every two years
b. every four years
c. every year
d. every three years

2. IOC is the abbreviation for ............................................, an organization based in Lausanne,

Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, on June 23, 1894.
a. International Olympic Contest
b. International Olympic Commission
c. International Olympic Committee
d. International Organization Committee

3. The National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are .................. for organizing their country’s
participation in the Olympic Games.
a. responsible
b. committed
c. guilty
d. entitled

4. The Romanian Olympic Committee was ............... in 1914 and is a member of the Association of National
Olympic Committees (Paris, France) and the European Olympic Committees (Rome, Italy).
a. invented
b. discovered
c. found
d. founded

5. The categories of Sports that group all International Sports Federations are:
a. spring sports, autumn sports and extreme sports
b. summer sports, winter sports and recognised sports
c. summer sports, autumn sports and dangerous sports
d. water sports, snow sports and indoor sports

6. Skating, skiing, bobsleigh, ice hockey, curling and biathlon are all ............................ .
a. snow sports
b. ice and snow sports
c. winter sports
d. unrecognised sports
7. Motorcycle racing, mountaineering and climbing, squash and racquetball are all .......................... .
a. recognised sports
b. unrecognised sports
c. unknown sports
d. imaginary sports

8. .............................. is a group of running, hurdling, jumping and throwing events held between individuals
or teams at indoor and outdoor meets.
a. Running events
b. Track and Field
c. Jumping events
d. Combined events

True/False Exercises:
9. The running and hurdling competitions make up the field events, while the jumping and throwing
contests comprise the track events.
a. True
b. False

10. The word athletics is a synonym for the expression track and field events.
a. True
b. False

Vocabulary exercises ((only one answer is possible for all exercises):

11. The angry football supporters … their fists at the referee.

a. clenched
b. pressed
c. clasped
d. gripped

12. There is a/an …......... training period before you start playing.
a. initial
b. first
c. primary
d. beginning

13. The children on the skating rink wore thick gloves and scarves to protect them … the cold.
a. for
b. by
c. from
d. at

14. The children were … despair when their favourite school football team lost the game.
a. about
b. in
c. on
d. with

15. Many African football players are so poor that they can hardly live from hand to …... .
a. hand
b. leg
c. head
d. mouth

Rezolvari si raspunsuri:

1. b; 2. c; 3. a; 4. d; 5. b; 6. c; 7. a; 8. b; 9. b; 10. a; 11. a; 12. a; 13. c; 14. b; 15. d