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2. Several thousand people drown every year while they are swimming or boating.
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, Choose carefully a place where you can do it. Do not do it on streets, where there can be cars. Steep hills are dangerous because you can go too fast and be unable to stop. The ideal spot is a broad, gentle slope that is free of trees and far from any road.
Use the proper equipment, including well-fitted boots, and keep it in good shape. If you are a beginner, get expert instruction. Stay with other people. Go on difficult slopes only if you have enough experience.
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3. People can get different injuries while sledding.
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Things We Can't Live Without
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I ■ A ball is the oldest piece of sports equipment known to people. Listen to some descriptions of different balls and match them with the pictures.
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2. a) Sort out the sentences into groups, read about three inventions and name them.
1. Sled is a vehicle that has parallel runners instead of wheels, so that it can move easily over snow or ice. 2. In the Far North, where snow and ice cover the ground for many months of the year, sleds are the chief means of transportation. 3. As people in the northern part of the planet started to live closer to the Arctic, they had to learn how to move in deep snow. 4. Skis started out as something more like snow shoes: short, wide wooden frames covered in leather. 5. You may expect ice skates to come from somewhere with plenty of ice, and it seems that skating began in Scandinavia about
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