Lecturas complementarias en Inglés

Introducción

De gran importancia ha sido siempre el interés
por el estudio de las lenguas extranjeras. El aumento acelerado
de los avances tecnológicos, la inminente necesidad de
comunicación entre las personas de diferentes
especialidades, en todas las sociedades, los países,
continentes, en todos los eventos nacionales e internacionales
desarrollados en todas las partes del mundo ha impuesto el
dominio de los idiomas extranjeros como una necesidad imperiosa
en las prioridades educativas y sociales de cada
país.

Aprender un idioma no es asunto de adquirir una serie de
reglas y un amplio vocabulario. El esfuerzo del profesor debe
estar encaminado no sólo a informar y orientar a sus
estudiantes en cuanto al idioma, sino a capacitarlos para
usarlo.

El quehacer pedagógico de los profesionales de la
educación cubana  ha estado caracterizado por la toma
de medidas de carácter práctico, dentro del cual la
enseñanza del idioma inglés y sus necesarias
transformaciones han sido prioridades en la práctica
pedagógica. El proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje del
Inglés necesita de perfeccionamiento pues todavía
existen  dificultades, por lo que  es obligación
de los propios profesores de  Inglés
responsabilizarse con mejorar, crear, elaborar, diseñar,
desarrollar estrategias metodológicas, medios de
enseñanza, nuevas técnicas de aprendizaje y todo un
sinnúmero de aspectos necesarios para seguir
revolucionando la enseñanza del idioma inglés como
lengua extranjera para que al final se puedan obtener resultados
satisfactorios que es en definitiva el objetivo   y la
meta final de todo educador dedicado a este importante
tema.

Con este material de apoyo las autoras se proponen
brindar a los profesores de Inglés de la Universidad de la
Ciencias de la Cultura Física y el Deporte, una serie de
lecturas complementarias relacionadas con el deporte para ser
utilizadas en la clase no 4 " lecturas complementarias" de todas
las unidades debido al déficit de materiales en
inglés relacionados con la Cultura
Física.

What is
Handball?

Handball is a combination of basketball, soccer and
netball. It is played indoors on a court about the size of two
basketball court. At the each end of the court is a net which is
9 feet wide by 6 ½ feet high. The object of the game is
simply to score more goals than the other team.

The ball is usually moved around the court by passing.
However, the ball can dribble, but like in basketball you can not
double-dribble. You can dribble for as long as you want (though
you risk getting the ball taken away). You can only take at most
three steps after catching a pass. You can not hold the ball for
more than three seconds without passing it. If a player is fouled
he is allowed a free zone 9 feet wide to restart play. Each team
has 12 members, two of which are goalkeepers, 7 team members"
play and substitutions can be made at any time. There is a
halfway line on the court. There is also a safety area that
extends about 20 feet around the goal. A player is not allowed to
be in this area. Shooters may leap into this area if they shoot
before they land.

If there is a penalty a player is warned. The next two
penalties are two-minute suspensions. After that, a player can be
disqualified (which means they are removed, but can be replaced
after two minutes). They can also be excluded, which means they
ca not be replaced and the team will have one less player on the
court.

Each goal counts as 1 point. Usually 20 goals are scored
in a game. The game consists of two 30 minutes halves with a 10
minute rest period in between the halves. The handball weights 16
ounces (13 ounces for women) and it is about the size of a
cantaloupe. There are four types of players: Goalies: Defend
goal. Not expected to stop as many goals as goalies in hockey or
soccer.

Circle runners: Large players who block shooters and try
to disorganize the defence. They also are shooters, usually from
close-in range.

Wings: they are offensive players who shoot at odd
angles, usually from the sides.

Big Shooters: they are tall, agile players who much like
quarterbacks lead the offence. They shoot from the backcourt over
the head of defenders.

Chess
Grandmaster

Leinier Domínguez Pérez was born in September
23, 1983 in Havana Cuba. He is a Cuban chess grandmaster. He won
the Cuban Chess Championship in 2002, 2003 and 2006. During the
2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he reached the quarter finals,
losing to Teimour Radjabov in the tie-break.

His best tournament result was Barcelona 2006, where he scored
8/9 and finished first, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, with a
performance rating of 2932. In 2008, he won CPA 2008 chess
tournament, he also won the 43rd Capablanca In Memoriam
tournament and in Biel 2008 he is second (he and Evgeny Alekseev
had 6.5 / 10, but he lost Alekseev in tie-break), ahead of Magnus
Carlsen. On the November 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is
2719.

On November 8, 2008 he won the World Blitz Championship 2008,
held at Almaty in Kazakhstan, with 11.5 points out of 15, ahead
of Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk and many
other top grandmasters.