FC 1)Bunyodkor/Pakhtakor Tashkent is an Uzbek 2)amateur/professional football club, based in the capital Tashkent. Pakhtakor's first official match was on 8 April 3)1956/1965, and it is the club's "birthday". The first goal in Pakhtakor’s history was scored byLazizMaksudov when the team won the game. In 4)1959/1968 Pakhtakor was the only Central Asian club to reach a Soviet Cup final. Pakhtakor was the only 5)Asian/Uzbek team in the highest echelon 22 times, and recording 212 wins.
In 6)September/August 1979, Pakhtakorwas in the Soviet Top League. The plane with the team was flying to the Ukraine to play with Dinamo Minsk. But Pakhtakor's7)plane/train had the accident with another plane in the air. All 178 people on the both planes died.
f) take the ball with your hands when someone passes to you
Read and match the titles and paragraphs. (3x2=6)
Paralympics
1 Can people with disability do sport? In Uzbekistan and other countries these people can do sport and take part in Paralympic Games. The Paralympic movement in Uzbekistan began at the end of the 1990s. Many sports centres appeared for these people.
2 The country first took part in the Summer Paralympics in Athens in 2004. Only one athlete took part ‒ the power lifter YusupKadyrov. Two athletes took part in Paralympis 2008 in Beijing. And in 2012 (London) the Uzbek Paralympic team won its first medal ‒ FarhodSaydov won silver medal for swimming.
3 More and more Uzbek athletes with disabilities took part in international events. In 2014, during the General Assembly of the Asian Paralympic Committee in Abu Dhabi, the National Paralympic Association of Uzbekistan (NPAUz) was named as the best sports organization of the Asian continent.
4 In the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, the Uzbek team won 31 medals (eight gold and six silver medals). Their strongest results were in athletics, judo and swimming. In 2017 in theJudo Championship male and female Uzbek athletes won 17 medals. Uzbek teams participate in other competitions, generally in the Asian Para-Games, with great success.
a The best sports organization in Asia
b Beginning of Paralympics in Uzbekistan
c Great success in Summer Paralympics
d The first victory
e.g. 1b
Read and say True or False. (5x2=10)
e.g. People with disability can do sport. True.
1 There were no people with disability before 1990s.
2 The first Summer Paralympics was in Beijing.
3 FarhodSaydov was the first Uzbek paralympian who won a medal.
4 The Asian Paralympic Committee is in Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates.
5 Uzbek athletes with disabilities are good at athletics, judo and swimming.