Text 4.2. The day I came face to face with a tiger.

Jesse Owens

Text 4.1. Jesse Owens

Look at the photo. What sport is it, do you think?

Exercise 4.1.1. Read the article and match the headings with the paragraphs (A-D).

Early successes

Greatest achievements

Family and early years

First experience of sport

A. Jesse Owens was born in 1913 in Alabama His family was poor, and Jesse worked in his spare time to support his family.

B. Jesse was a fast runner and so he joined the school athletics team He set a new schoolboys’ world record for the 100-yard sprint.

С. While at university Jesse had to work to pay for he stocks He also faced cabal discrimination and wasn't allowed to live with white students. On 25th May, 1935, he broke four world records within 45 minutes: the 100-yard sprint, the 220-yard sprint the long jump and the 220-yard hurdles. He was still a student!

D. At the 1936 Olympic Games Jesse won the 100-metre sprint the 200-metre sprint the long Jump and the 400-metre relay He also broke three Olympic records It was a fantastic achievement

Exercise 4.1.2. Answer the questions.

1. When and where was Jesse Owens born?

2. Why did Jesse have to workin his spare time?

3. In which event did Jesse break the world record while he was still at school?

4. In what ways was university life difficult for Jesse?

5. How many world records did Jesse set on 25th May 1935, andhow long did i t take him?

Exercise 4.1.3. Match the sentences about Owens with the four topics in exercise

· By the end of his first year at college, Jesse realised he could compete at the highest level.

· Jesse was the first American to win four gold medals in a

single Olympics.

· Jesse couldn't do sports after school because he had to work.

· When Jesse was eight, his father lost his job and the family moved toOhio.

· The Nazis hoped to prove at the Games that white people

were physically superior to blаск people.

· Jesse's school sports teacher realised that Jesse was

immensely talented.

· Jesse had nine brothers and sisters.

· When he travelled with fellow students he had to stay in 'blacks only' hotels.

5. Write an article (130-150 words) for a student magazine about a famous sportsperson from the past (someone who has retired or died). Include paragraphs on three or four of these topics and your own ideas.

- family

- early years and education

- first experience of sport

- early successes

- greatest achievements

^- why you admire him/her

Check your work

Have you

-divided your article into paragraphs, each with its own topic?

-put the paragraphs in a logical order?

-checked your spelling and grammar?

-written 130-150 «words?

Exercise 4.2.1. Vocabulary. Learn the words below

to describe описывать

face to face лицом к лицу

a few days’ holiday несколько выходных дней

guide проводник

to escape уйти, скрыться

equipment снаряжение

to get a better view чтобы лучше видеть

creep (Past Simple – crept) красться, подкрадываться

deer олень

like a flash of lightning как вспышка молнии

a sight зрелище

a snake змея

throat горло, гортань

to grab внезапно схватить

to wear носить, надеть (одежду)

Exercise 4.2.3. Read and translate the text:

Tony Russell describes how the sight of a tiger in Nepal –‘500 kilos plus and four meters long’ – will stay with him forever.

Last year I went to Nepal for three months to work in a hospital. I think it is important to see as much of a country as you can, but it is difficult to travel around Nepal. The hospital let me have a few days’ holiday, so I decided to go into the jungle and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me.

We started preparing for the trip at six in the morning, and left camp with two elephants carrying our equipment. It was hot, but Kamal made me wear shoes and trousers to protect me from snakes. In the jungle there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find big cats, especially tigers. We climbed onto

the elephants’ backs to get a better view, but it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in the heat of the day.

Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept nearer and found a dead deer, still bleeding. This was the tiger’s lunch! Suddenly I started to feel very frightened.

We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five hundred kilos plus and four meters long. I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal’s throat. It grabbed Kamal’s leg between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away. One of our elephants ran at the tiger and made it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch. That night it was impossible to sleep!

Exercise 4.2.4. Give the three forms of the verbs below and the Russian meaning.

to creep

to feel

to find

to go

to leave

to make

to run

to see

to sleep

to think

to wear

Exercise 4.2.5. Answer the question.:

1. When did Tony go to Nepal?

2. Where did he work?

3. What is important for Tony?

4. Where did he decide to go during the holiday?

5. Who was his guide?

6. What animals did they take with them?

7. What animals did they want to find?

Exercise 4.2.6. Translate the questions below from Russian into English and answer them.

1. В какую страну поехал автор?

2. Где он работал?

3. Куда автор отправился на выходные?

4. Кто был его проводником?

5. Как долго автор провел в Непале?

6. Что увидели в джунглях автор и его проводник?

7. Что случилось с автором и проводником?

Exercise 4.2.7. Check your memory. Speak about the event that happened to Tony Russell

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