Today we’ll speak about sport. Sport plays an important 1) in the life of the English people. All sports are very popular in Britain. The British are proud that many 2) originated in their country and then spread throughout the 3) . The national British sports are: football, cricket, table tennis, lawn tennis, racing and 4) . Football is the most 5) game in the world. There are two kinds of it in Britain: association football (soccer) and rugby. Soccer played almost in all countries remains one of the most popular games in Great Britain. Rugby football originated in Rugby public 6) . In this game players may 7) the ball. Rugby is played by teams of 15 men with an oval ball.
Golf, one of the most popular sports in Britain, originated in 8) .
Englishmen are fond of cricket. It is played in schools, colleges, universities. Matches with other countries are held 9) . Cricket is a slow game.
Table tennis originated in England in 1880. But the British players are not lucky in tennis international 10) .
Englishmen like all kinds of racing. Horse-racing, motor-car racing, boat-racing, dog-racing, donkey-racing are very popular in England. The most famous 11) race in England is between Oxford and Cambridge. It first started in 1820 and has been held almost every 12) since 1836. A lot of people come to watch it.

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