SPORTS AND GAMES WARM UP SPORTS AND GAMES

SPORTS AND GAMES

WARM UP! SPORTS AND GAMES WHICH ARE SPORTS AND WHICH ARE GAMES? ORGANISE THEM IN TWO SETS.

SPORTS Badminton Basketball Cricket Cycling Darts Football Gymnastics Hockey Marathon Netball Rugby Running Swimming Table tennis Tennis Weightlifting

GAMES Bridge Call of Duty Chess Cluedo Connect 4 Twister Kerplunk Monopoly Nintendo Pictionary Poker Pontoon Scrabble Super Mario Trivial pursuit Dominoes

• What are the differences between sports and games?

SPORTS are usually: GAMES are usually: physical use the mind played in public private / at home played in teams alone or in the family in competitions not in competitions can make lots of money don’t make money

WHY ARE THE OLYMPIC GAMES CALLED GAMES, NOT THE OLYMPIC SPORTS? • The modern Olympics were started by a Frenchman, Baron de Coubertin, in 1896 and French at that time had the same word for sport and game (jeu). Les jeux Olympiques was translated into English as the Olympic Games. French has subsequently taken the word sport from English. The same is true in German where both games and sports were called Spielen until German took sport from English in the 20 th century. )

Why do people play sports and games? Which is more important in most people’s lives – sports or games?

SOME REASONS FOR PLAYING SPORTS AND GAMES • fitness • improving skills • enjoyment – satisfaction at doing something well • enjoy being part of a team / working together • social / team mates can become friends • inspired by famous sports people • want to be famous • want to be professional/make a lot of money

Why do sports and games need to have rules? Jot ideas down…

READ JONAH Is it right for Jonah to be banned from competing in the Olympics?

AMANDA: Alice and Ted are having a baby and the scans show it will be born with one leg much shorter than the other. Gene therapy allows doctors to implant stem cells from another baby into the foetus so the leg grows to the same length as the other before the baby is born. This is done. When the baby (Amanda) grows up, she is good at sport and wants to compete in competitions. Should she be allowed to when one of her legs was grown by gene therapy?

REFLECTION. . YOUR RESPONSES If gene therapy is allowed, will competitive sport still be worthwhile? If not, can anything be done about it?

BRIDGING: EXTENSION TASK • Write a science fiction story about someone who is genetically modified. • In what way would they be enhanced? For what purpose? • Does it have a happy ending or a disturbing ending? (Disturbing is always better!)