Номер 5, страница 115 - гдз по английскому языку 5-7 класс (Solutions) учебник Фалла, Дэвис

Culture eight.

Exercises five and six.

Interviewer: My guest today is Nick Wheeler, a sports journalist. He writes about women's football. Welcome, Nick.

Nick: Thank you.

Interviewer: Now, tell me, when did women start playing football? The first women's World Cup was in nineteen ninety-one, wasn't it?

Nick: Yes, that's right. But the first women's clubs started before nineteen hundred.

Interviewer: Really?

Nick: Yes, the first match was in eighteen ninety-five. And in those days, thousands of people went to watch women playing football. For example, in December nineteen twenty, fifty-three thousand fans saw a match between Preston and St Helens in the north of England.

Interviewer: Wow! That's more people than at most Premier League games today.

Nick: Yes. But one year later, the FA, the English Football Association, banned women from men's clubs.

Interviewer: You mean they stopped women using the men's pitches?

Nick: Yes. Their opinion was, football is a man's game and women shouldn't play it.

Interviewer: That's very sexist.

Nick: Yes. And a lot of women stopped playing football.

Interviewer: When did that change?

Nick: In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Then, in nineteen sixty-nine, the Women's Football Association started. And three years later, the Women's England team played their first match against Scotland.

Interviewer: Did they win?

Nick: Well, it was two-nil to Scotland at half-time, but in the end, England won three-two.

Interviewer: And now we have a women's World Cup too.

Nick: Yes, as you said, that started in nineteen ninety-one.

Interviewer: And which is the best team?

Nick: Not England, I'm afraid. Germany and Japan are very good, but the best team is the USA. They came first, second, or third in every World Cup between nineteen ninety-one and twenty fifteen.

Interviewer: What about money? How much do women footballers earn?

Nick: They don't earn as much as men. An English Premier League footballer earns more in one week than a women footballer earns in a year.

Interviewer: But that's because men's football is more popular.

Nick: Yes, the men's game gets lots of money from television companies. But the women's game is becoming more popular. Fifty-three thousand fans watched the World Cup final between the USA and Japan in twenty fifteen. And twenty-four million Americans watched it on TV. So, I hope that the players are going to start earning more money.

Interviewer: Yes, I hope so too. Nick, thank you for talking to me today.