Sport is very important in our life. It is popular among young and old people. Many people domorning exercises, jog in the morning, train themselves in clubs, in different sections and take partin sport competitions. Other people like sports too, but they only watch sports games, listen tosports news. They prefer reading interesting stories about sportsmen. But they don`t go in forsports. Physical training is an important subject at school. Pupils have got physical training lessonstwice a week. Boys and girls play volley-ball and basket-ball at the lessons. There is a sportsgroundnear our school and school-children go in foi sports in the open air. A lot of different competitionsare held at schools, a great number of pupils take part in them. All participants try to get goodresults and become winners. Sport helps people to keep in good health. If you go in for sports, youhave good health and don`t catch cold. Children and grown-ups must take care of their health anddo morning exercises regularly. There are some popular kinds of sports in our country: football,volley-ball, hockey, gymnastics, skiing, skating. Athletics is one of the most popular kinds of sports.It includes such kinds of sports as running, jumping and others. Everybody may choose the sporthe (or she) is interested in. There are summer and winter sports. My favourite sport is swimming. Igo to the swimming-pool twice a week. But I prefer to rest by the lake or the river and swim there.My friend Kostya goes in for boxing. He is a good boxer and he is a brave and courageous boy. Hishobby helps him in his everyday life.