Question

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Read the text and choose True or False.

The origins of popular
British sports

Football
Some people think that the Ancient
Chinese invented a kind of football. However, there is evidence that
the Ancient Romans and Egyptians also played an early form of
football. Football became popular in England during the fourteenth
century. These games were chaotic and violent. Large crowds of
hundreds of people played. Broken arms and legs were frequent and
sometimes people were killed. In 1314, football was forbidden by the
King of England but people continued to play it.

Cricket
The
traditional English game of cricket originated in the English
countryside, probably in the fourteenth century. An early form of the
game was played by farm workers who threw balls against trees.
Another worker stood by the tree and tried to hit the ball away with
a stick. The game later developed and became popular all over
England.

Tennis
Some people believe that tennis originated
in Ancient Egypt but there is little to prove this. The most popular
theory is that it was first played in twelfth-century French
monasteries. It is thought that the game was played by monks who hit
a ball with their hand against a wall. The game became increasingly
popular and eventually gloves were worn to protect players’ hands.
Later, the gloves were replaced with a racquet and the ball was hit
over a low rope hung across a courtyard.

1 We do not know for
certain who invented football. True / False
2 Football was a
dangerous game in fourteenth
century England. True / False
3
The King of England played football in 1314. True / False
4 People
stopped playing football in 1314. True / False
5 Cricket is a
traditional English game. True / False
6 English farm workers used
to play an early form of
cricket in the fourteenth century.
True / False
7 The farm workers hit trees with sticks. True /
False
8 Most people think that tennis was invented in France. True
/ False
9 Monks used their hands to hit the ball in tennis. True /
False
10 Tennis racquets were replaced with gloves. True / False

Answer 1

1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
5. False
6. True
7. False
8. True
9. True
10. False