My summer holidays

Exercise 5. According to the text make up your own topic.
SPORTS

Sports serve a great purpose, helping to bring up a strong and healthy generation of courageous young men and women. Sports teach people how to work together, improve coordination and increase players’ self-confidence.

Our republic pays a great deal of attention to physical education and sports. Hundreds of stadiums, gymnasiums, basketball grounds, tennis courts, swimming pools and other facilities have been built all over the country for the millions of people who enjoy sports.

Physical training, sports and games are an important part of the education of the youth. The sports programme for the youth sometimes includes boxing, wrestling, swimming, karate, kurash, running, weightlifting, cycling, shooting, gymnastics, as well as team games such as football, volley-ball, basketball and others.

Numerous sports clubs have fostered dozens of athletes who have achieved great fame for our country. Uzbek athletes win many new world records in various sports.

This year at the end of May Andizhan city received the participants of the Republic Universiada – 2010. Students from different institutes and universities of our country were admitted in well-equipped “students’ sports towns”. Sportsmen from Andizhan State Medical Institute took an active part in sports competitions on different sports events and won many prizes.

As for me I like sports and understand that it is very useful to keep my organism in a good condition. If I have free time I like to play basketball in amateur team of my group-mates. I shall always remember the Latin saying “Mens sana in corpore sano”.