Unit 3

Ice Hockey – General Background

Present Perfect Simple and Continuous (Murphy - English Grammar in Use: Unit 7 – 10)

Ice Hockey – one of the fastest sports, “game of speed and strength”, in which two opposing teams
of skaters use long, curved sticks to try to drive a hard rubber disc into each other’s goal. It is
especially popular in Canada, where it developed.


A/ Work in pairs. Write as many information as you can.


1.      Team





2.      Play





3.      Penalties





4.      Ice hockey skills





5.      Equipment





6.      Referees

B/ Describe the rink





C/ Ice Hockey Quiz – Choose one correct answer:


1.      Where is the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) based?

a)      Montreal, Canada

b)      Zurich, Switzerland

c)      New York, USA


2.      Which of these shirt numbers did Wayne Gretzky wear when he played for Sault Ste Marie
Greyhounds?

a)      9

b)      19

c)      29


3.      In which year was the first HHL All-Star Game played?

a)      1933-34

b)      1935-36

c)      1937-38


4.      Why was not there and an NHL All-Star Game in 1995? Because of…

a)      a blizzard

b)      a player strike

c)      a TV boycott


5.      Where was Wayne Gretzky born?

a)      Ontario, Canada

b)      Kladno, the Czech Republic

c)      Pskov, Russia


6.      When did Czechoslovakia first appear in the World Championships?

a)      1920

b)      1922

c)      1924


7.      In 1933, the World Championships were held in which Czechoslovakian city?

a)      Bratislava

b)      Prague

c)      Vsetin


8.      In 1947-48 Czechoslovakia won silver medals in the Olympics and World Championship. What
was the colour of their European Championship medal that season?

a)      gold

b)      silver

c)      bronze


9.      Which team won the Czech Republic Championship in 1999-00?

a)      HC Olomouc

b)      HC Petra Vsetin

c)      HC Sparta Prague


10.  Which team won the Slovakia Championship in 1999-00?

a)      Dukla Trencin

b)      HC Kosice

c)      Slovan Bratislava