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Read the blog. What time of year do people do your favourite sport?

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Reports When we do some sports, we need the
right weather.

Sports for all seasons

We can only do some sports in the
winter because we need snow and
ice. A lot of people enjoy skiing in
the winter holidays. Today a lot of
young people like snowboarding,
too. Sledging is also very good fun in
Athletics is a sport which winter. You can sledge down a hill.
we usually do outside. It's
difficult to do in the cold
and rain so, at school, we There are other sports which you can do in any season. In the
do athletics in the summer. UK and Europe, cycling is a very popular sport. A lot of people
Lots of people play golf. cycle in spring, autumn and winter, not only in the summer.
You play Some people have racing bikes and enter competitions. The
golf
in any most famous bicycle race is the Tour de France, which is in the
season summer.
of the
year, but The dates for the seasons are different in
not when different parts of the world. In Europe,
it snows! North America and Asia, spring is from
March to June, but in Australia, Africa,
India and South America, it is from about
September to December.

Read again and correct the sentences.

1 At school they do athletics in the autumn. 5 People go sledging in the summer.
2 It's easy to do athletics in the cold and rain. 6 Spring comes between autumn and winter.
3 You can play golf in the snow. 7 Winter comes after summer.
4 To do winter sports we need fog and rain. 8 The Tour de France is a snowboarding race.

Ask and answer.
I enjoy playing basketball in the summer
1 Which sports do you enjoy doing in the summer? because I can play outside.
Why?
2 Can you practise any of these winter sports where I can go sledging where I live
you live? Why? because it snows in the winter.

74 Vocabulary: sports and seasons