Reading. Task 1. Read the text.
Playing football
We know that football was first played in England about 150 years ago, but the game is really much older. Games with ball were well known hundreds of years ago. The old Roman game “Harpastum”, the Old French game “Suolt”, Georgian “Lelo”, Russian “Shalyga” and many others were all forms of ball games. In the past all these football games were not played at the stadiums or on a football field. They were played in the squares and streets of cities and villages, and they were dangerous to the windows and doors of the houses. People in those days enjoyed their ball games and got as excited about the game as they do now. Young workers used to leave their work to take part in the game. At the beginning of the XVII century, special laws were made against playing ball games. Nobody was allowed to play, and for two hundred and fifty years, there were no ball games.
People began to play again in the second half of the XIX century. In 1863, a meeting was called in a pub in Great Queen Street in London, for the purpose of deciding the rules of the game. The people were very excited, they shouted: “only feet” and “hands and feet”. It was decided to introduce 13 rules of playing football at this meeting. These rules were published in December 1863, and later became the international rules of football game all over the world.
 Task 1. Read the texts carefully. Select if the statements are TRUE or FALSE, put a tick in an appropriate column and EXPLAIN your choice.​

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. Nowaday Greek games took place very four years.They included not only sports competitions but also in music, oratory and theatre perfomances.The ancient Olympic Games had only one athletic event-a footrace. Only men could compete or watch the games. During the Games there was peace in the country. The Olympic Games are probably the most important international sports event. Many things have changed but like in ancient times winners of the Olympics become national heroes in their countries.    

Олимпийские игры - это  международный фестиваль спорта, который начался в Древней Греции. В те дни греческие игры происходили раз в четыре года. Они включали в себя не только спортивные соревнования, но и соревнования по музыке, соревнования в ораторском искусстве и театральные представления.

Наиболее ранние сведения об Олимпийских игр относятся к 776 году до н.э., но историки считают, что игры начались задолго до этого.

В древних Олимпийских Играх был только один вид спортивного единоборства - бег или гонка  спринтеров около 183 метров (длина стадиона). Только мужчины могли участвовать в Играх или наблюдать за ними.

Во время игры в стране был мир. когда мощные, воинствующиее спартанцы начали выигрывать, была  изменена программа игр и в них были включены и другие виды спорта.

Победители игр становились национальными героями. Римский император Феодосий закончил Олимпиискиу Игры в 394 году нашей эры, потому что он думал, что они были языческим фестивалем.