Презентация, доклад на английском языке Sport in Great Britain.

are neither playing, nor watching games, they like to talk about them. Many of the games we play now have come from Britain.

organized sports, which attract huge crowds to encourage their favourite team to victory, athletic games played for recreation and others.

is greater than the number of people playing in the game. Other sports are called participant, sports attracting large crowds only on special occasions such as tournaments.

been played for hundreds of years.In the English Football League there are 92 professional clubs. These are semi-professional, so most players have other full-time jobs. Hundreds of thousands of people also play football in parks and playgrounds just for fun. The highlight of the English football year is the FA [Football Association] Cup Final each May. Some of England’s football teams are world famous, the most famous being Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.
  

from April to August.  The rules of cricket became the responsibility, in the 18th century, of the Marylebone Cricket Club[MCC], based at Lord’s cricket ground in north London.  

Rugby  
Rugby originated from Rugby school in Warwickshire. For many years Rugby was only played by the rich upper classes, but now it is popular all over the country. There are two different types of rugby – Rugby League, played mainly in the north of England, and Rugby Union, played in the rest of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, together with France and Italy, play in an annual tournament called the Six Nations. 

small club in south London in the nineteenth century. It begins on the nearest Monday to June 22, at a time when English often have the finest weather. Now people all over the world know  Wimbledon as the centre of lawn tennis. The Wimbledon championship, in which the leading rackets of the world compete, is held annually in the southern suburb of London. Millions of people watch the Championships on TV live.  It is traditional for visitors to eat strawberries and cream whilst they watch the tennis.

Horse racing  
Horseracing, the sport of Kings, is a very popular sport. Horse racing and greyhound racing are popular spectator sports. People can place bets on the races at legal off-track betting shops. Some of the best-known horse races are held at Ascot, Newmarket, Goodwood and Epsom. Ascot, a small town in the south of England, becomes the centre of horse-racing world for one week in June. It’s called Royal Ascot because the Queen always goes to Ascot. She has a lot of racehorses and likes to watch racing. 

Britain’s two oldest universities, were huge fans of rowing. In 1829, the two schools agreed to hold a race against each other for the first time on the Thames River. The Oxford boat won and a tradition was born. Today, the University Boat Race is held every spring in either late March or early April.  

races for donkeys. The famous boat-race between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge attracts large crowds of people.
A great number of people play and watch tennis. Tennis tournaments at Wimbledon are known all over the world. The innumerable tennis courts of Britain are occupied by people between the ages of 16 and 60 who show every degree of skill — from practically helpless to the extremely able.

forms of athletics, such as running, jumping, swimming, boxing are also popular. You can sometimes hear that there are no winter sports in England. Of course the English weather is not always cold enough to ski, skate, or toboggan, but winter is a good season for hunting and fishing. Indeed, sport in one form or another is an essential part of daily life in Britain.