1. Listen to the text «Baseball» and choose the best variants to complete the
sentences.
1) In baseball players must … .
a) hit a ball with a bat
b) catch a ball
c) catch another player
d) hit another player with a bat
2) … there were professional teams in other cities.
a) Within ten years
b) Within a few years
c) Within one year
d) Within twenty years
3) Each year since then the National League winner and … have been playing
in
the World Series.
a) the British League winner
b) the Australian League winner
c) the American League winner
d) the Canadian League winner
2. Listen to the story and mark the sentences «True» (T) or «False» (F).
1) Baseball is America’s worst sport.
2) There are two teams in this game.
3) The players run around four bases.
4) The team wins that finishes with more runs.
5) Everybody believes that baseball originated in Great Britain.
6) The first professional team was organized in the USA.
3. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
World two businessmen baseball
1) The early teams were not professional.
2) The event was called the Series.
3) teams from New York played a game following Cartwright’s rules.
4) saw that they could make money with professional baseball teams.
The action of the book happening in the country "Middle Earth", populated by many characters of fairy tales and myths - dwarves, hobbits, goblins, trolls, elves.
The hobbit Bilbo, the country stay-at-homea of a middle-aged man , is the main hero of this book.
Bilbo was persuaded by magician Gandalf and he goes on a journey full of dangerous adventures, along with a group of dwarves.
Dwarves are going to return the treasure of their ancestors, which was captured by the evil fire-breathing dragon. Dangers await to friends on their way as trolls, pirates, goblins troops but the dragon in itself became a dangerous enemy.
However, thanks to the courage, skill and ingenuity of the main hero and his companions as well as helping their many friends, all the adventure end happily: the dragon was defeated , the attack of goblins was stopped, and the main hero was sent to his home, along with a some share of treasures and with magic ring.