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Sports and Exercise

Many people enjoy sports and physical activities. Some prefer team sports like football, basketball, or volleyball because they are fun to play with others. These sports help people make friends and work together. Other people like individual sports such as running, swimming, or cycling. These activities allow you to exercise alone at your own pace.

Some people don’t play sports but love watching games on TV or at stadiums. Popular sports to watch include tennis, baseball, and boxing. There are also relaxing activities like yoga, which improves flexibility and reduces stress, or walking, which is a simple way to stay active.

Playing sports has many benefits. It keeps your body strong, improves your health, and makes you feel happier. Do you like playing or watching sports? What is your favorite way to exercise?

VOCABULARY

• team sports: games played with a group of people
• Football and basketball are team sports.

• individual sports: activities done alone
• Swimming is an individual sport.

• flexibility: the ability to bend or move easily
• Yoga helps improve your flexibility.

• reduce stress: to feel less worried or tense
• Exercise can help reduce stress.

• benefits: good things that come from something
• One benefit of sports is better health.

ACTIVITIES

1 - Choose the correct answer:

2 - Match the words with similar meanings: