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A team is characterized by several attributes that make up an efficient and high-performing team:
1. Clear Direction and Purpose: A team knows the reason for its existence and is working for established goals.
2. Clear Roles and Responsibilities: With clear roles, team members understand individual role assignment and contributions to the success of the team. Each member is interdependent on each other to function efficiently.
3. Team Norms: Norms are rules that keep the team members within the standards and defined boundaries of the team goals. These ground rules also maintain a harmonious working relationship in a team.
4. Knowledgeable Team Members: A team functions effectively with members who demonstrate the right skills and knowledge to carry out a task. Team members have to have complementary skills to mutually work together.
5. Interpersonal Relationships: Every team member must be able to interact well with each other considering that a team is a collective group of diverse individuals with personal traits and values.
6. Sharing Success and Failures: Every team success must be celebrated equally among members with pride. Each member must be recognized for every effort and contribution. Also, the members must be open to criticisms and must hold everyone responsible for team failure.
Ex. 2. Read the text. Decide how sport team differs from other types of teams.
TEAM. COMPETITION
When the National Federation wants to take part in some international games, it must form the national scratch team. First of all, the list of possibles is made. These are picked up by their former performances and personal bests. A preliminary selections being made, the coaches get down to building up the team. This pre-games conditioning consists in week-to-week stamina and technique training. Then the make-up of the team is decided in many trials and tryouts. These practice games show who of the sportsmen brings himself up to splendid form, who shows off-form. Thus, it becomes clear who can fill in for the team.
When some international competitions are to be held, the organizing committee sends out invitations to different countries to enter the contest. After preliminary eliminations matches the national teams may file their applications to participate in the competition. The entries are closed on the fixed deadline and those who are late don’t go on the list.
If the certain team withdraws from the games, all its matches with other teams are called off.
In many sports, players and teams play every week in a league. The team that wins the most games in a season is the winner of the league championship. In most sports, there is also a cup competition, which is usually a knock-out competition.
Task 2. Read and translate the following words and word combinations. Consult the dictionary if necessary.
Entry, amateur, team-mate, skipper, drawing lots, encounter, competition, fixture, event, league, entrant, competitor, final, quarter-final, claimant.
Task 3. Find the most suitable Ukrainian equivalents for the following wordcombinations. Use the dictionary.
To take part, the list of possibles, former performances, personal bests, preliminary selections, to get down to building up the team, pre-games conditioning, stamina and technique training, trails and tryouts, regularly scheduled meets, practice games, to bring up to splendid form, to show off-form, to fill in for the team, to be left out to stage a competitive tour, to trade games, to get a berth on the team, first-string sportsman, a longbench, to get on injured list.
Тренировочная игра, тренировка выносливости и техники, получить место в команде, не быть включенным в команду, предпринять спортивную поездку, войти в отличную форму, не выступать из-за травмы, быть не в форме, провести встречи с какой-нибудь командой, спортсмен основного состава, хорошие резервы, предварительный отбор, список участников, спортивное выступление, принимать участие, личный рекорд, приступить к подготовке к соревнованиям, тренировочная игра, регулярно проводимые встречи, подготовка к играм, замена.
Task 4. Make up a summary of the text. Translate into English.
1) Матч между российской и канадской сборными назначен на 23 января.
2) В какой лиге играет ваш клуб?
3) Турнир пяти городов по регби состоится через неделю.
4) Замена произошла на 3 минуте матча.
5) В этом сезоне игроки находятся в отличной форме.
6) Выносливость и хорошая спортивная техника позволили этому спортсмену занять место в команде.
7) Список участников должен быть подан к 3 марта.
8) Спортсмены основного состава далеко не в лучшей форме.
9) Тренер объявил о начале предварительного отбора в сборную команду Олимпийских игр.
10) Наш любимый спортсмен не участвует в соревнованиях из-за травмы.
IV. PERSONAL CHALLENGES
Ex.1. Read the following stories that people put up on their personal web pages and write the title for each story. All the stories are about moments of challenge.
Story A
30/4/01 Today I ran my first five-kilometer race. I wanted lo prove that I could go die distance. I was so nervous before the race that I felt my legs shaking as I walked across the track. "Debbie, you can do it." I told myself. The race started, and the runners began running as fast as they could. "Why are they running so fast?" I thought. "The race is live kilometers long!"
But I went with them. 1 ran side by side with the other runners. I heard someone shout out our time after the first kilometer. Then came the second kilometer. "Come on, you can do it." I heard the crowd yell. "1 can do it," I said to myself. "I can do it." 1 was amazed to see that I was still running with the others. As I neared the finish, the voices of the crowd seemed to disappear. I was hot and tired and I began to feel dizzy.
My legs shook as I ran up the last hill. My heart was pounding, and I could hardly see. But somehow I reached the finish line and then 1 collapsed. Someone helped me get to the first aid station. A medic gave me a glass of water and told me, "Drink more next time." It took me an hour before I began to feel better. Now—twelve hours later—I feel fine and I know that I have done it. I have gone the distance.
Story B
1/9/00 I joined the soccer team a couple of weeks ago, and my teammates said that the team was not for people like me. "Go back to the library and to your schoolbooks," one of them said at the first practice. "You don't know how to kick a ball." I could face that my teammates didn't think much of me. They didn't pass me the ball and they tried to make me look bad in front of the coach.
Well, yesterday, I kicked the winning goal for the team. We were tied 2-2 with one minute left to go when our right fielder made a corner kick. I trapped the ball and then kicked it into the net. All the guys cheered, rushed toward me and slapped my back. I was really proud of myself and, for the first time, 1 felt a part of the team.
After the game, the captain of the team turned to me and said, "Hey Jack. Where did you learn to kick like that? You're something special." He was particularly happy because we had won the game against a bigger and stronger team. I'm going to work extra hard in practice this week. I want to be ready for the playoffs. This time my teammates are going to pass me the ball.
Story C
22/7/01 Today is the third day of our hike. Alaska is amazing. 1 can't believe that we're actually hiking on the Chilkoot Pass. It's the same trail that the gold miners used to take in search of gold in the 1800s. It was called the "meanest thirty-two miles" in the country. But that was when the miners traveled in the winter with their dog sleds and equipment.
We are traveling light. I have everything I need in my backpack: food, a pot, water, bug spray, a camera, a map, a compass, matches and a change of clothes. I have only one change of clothes for the whole week! Yesterday, as we crossed a small river, I missed one of the rocks and fell into the water. Luckily, we reached the campsite an hour later and I put my wet clothes near the fire to dry.
The best part of our hike today was the climb to the top of Mount Teton. We climbed over rocks and boulders. I was dead tired by the time we reached the summit. But all the hard work was worth it. The view was incredible. I wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Ex.2. Read each of the following sentences and decide what the highlighted word means. Write the word and its meaning in your notebook.
1. Many athletes like the personal challenge of sport. They like trying to do something enjoyable / trying to do something difficult.
2. My teammates slapped me on the back when I scored the goal. The other players on the team / coaches of the team were really proud of me.
3. The City High School swimming team won the championship. They took first place in the competition / exhibition.
4. When the home baseball team scored the winning run of the game, the crowd went wild. The people watching the game /people playing the game were very happy and excited.
5. After running ten kilometers in the race, the runner collapsed. She had no more energy and so she rested /fell down.
6. 
The goal of climbing a mountain is to reach the summit. Every mountain climber wants to get to the top of the mountain / end of the hike.
Ex. 3. Read the following dialogues. Dramatize them.
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