9. Sports and healthy lifestyle. Part 1

  

 

Attract attention - to make someone notice you;

Amateur - taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job;

Develop - to (cause something to) grow or change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form;

Tournament - a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left;

Extremely - very;

Race - a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to finish first;

Event - anything that happens, especially something important or unusual;

Rowing - the activity of making a boat move through water using oars (= poles with flat ends);

Devote - to give your time or effort completely to something you believe in or to a person, or to use a particular amount of time or energy doing something;

Essential - necessary or needed;

Derive - to get something from something else;

Bat - a specially shaped piece of wood used for hitting the ball in some games;

Exist - to be, or to be real.