1 Unit 6 For the Glory of Sport Part I Warming up A． Key words: the “firsts” Olympic Vocabulary: hemisphere Melbourne Munich Tapescript Women competed in Olympic events for the first time in Paris in 1900. In 1924, the first Winter Games were held in Chamonix. In 1932, the first Olympic village was built to accommodate athletes in Los Angeles. In 1936 in Berlin TV cameras broadcast Olympic events for the first time. The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne were the first Olympic Games to be held in the southern hemisphere. Tokyo hosted the first Asian Olympics in 1964. In 1972 for the first time, over one billion TV viewers watched the Munich Olympic opening ceremony. B. Tapescript What is the most popular sport in the United States? That may be an impossible question to answer. There are different meanings of the words "most popular." One way to measure the popularity of a sport is by the number of people who pay to watch it played by professional teams. Experts say the most popular American sport by that measure is baseball. Each professional baseball team plays 162 games every season. Or the popularity of a sport can be measured by the number of people who watch games on television or listen on the radio. Then the answer might be American football. And the popularity of a sport could be measured by the number of people who play the sport instead of just watch it. The answer, in this case, is the game people in the United States call soccer. It says more than 18 million people play soccer in the United States. C. Tapescript: 2 Right, everybody. Stand up straight. Now bend forward and down to touch your toes- and up -- and down -- and up. Arms by your sides. Raise your rig...
