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Lesson 9 - Sports/Hobbies
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This page: Review the vocabulary of Olympic sports.

sports

What's the sport?

Instructions
Guess which sport they are describing.

1. In this sport players use a light racket to hit a small object called a birdie over a net. It is commonly played at backyard parties and barbecues in the U.S.

2. People who play this sport use a bow to shoot an arrow towards a target.

3. In this sport players wear protective clothing and masks and do battle with thin swords.

4. This sport is played in a court. A team is assembled on each side of a net. Players hit the ball back and forth using their arms and hands.

5. This sport combines skiing with archery.

6. In this sport a granite stone is thrown across the ice by one player. Two other players use brooms to buff the ice in the path of the stone and thus control its movements.

7. This is a sport that involves hand-to-hand combat. The object is to throw your opponent to the floor as often as possible.

8. In this sport players race in boats pushed through the water by riders using oars.

 

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