Match the headings 1-6 with the texts A-F. One of the headings is extra. 1. Favourite subject 2. After-class activities 3. School classroom 4. School library 5. School book exhibition 6. Difficult situation Sports in Great Britain It is interesting how many of todays sports games originated in Britain football, rugby rowing and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing footbal another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created spec sports and sports games. Football is a good example. In the Middle Ages people in Europe, Japan and Asia all p of the game. A sort of football was also very popular in England, especially as a contest But at that time there were very few rules. When the students of English schools starte rules then became necessary. They were changed several times and by the middle c football had become very much the game that we know and like today. By the way, the rules were written at Cambridge University. A similar story can be told about some other sports. Why did this happen in Countries? There are some possible explanations: after the Norman invasion of 1066 Deaceful country. As a result people had time to develop sports. Later, after Britain's English factories were based on highly organized work and strict time keeping. The pplied to sport. So uniforms, referees and punishments were introduced to football ar uthorities thought that team games were good training for future military and industri Every country has its own list of favourite sports. What is the British list? There rom football. Schoolgirls, for example, play a game which seems a lot like basket etball is different from basketball in many details: for example, the ball is lighter etball has seven players in each team (not five). There is something very strange a ayed by boys. There is no biological reason for this, it is simply a tradition. It i nglish-speaking world, and the Australians and New Zealanders usually win the c But the most famous and popular British sport is cricket. Cricket is an importa e. You can watch it all day on TV or even listen to it on the radio. News progra th the score. Men, when they meet, always exchange a few words about the stat One of cricket's distinguishing features is that the games are very long. In a ool it takes up to a whole afternoon. But the big international games are up to 1. The British mass media pay lots of attention to cricket.