TOPIC: LEISURE TIME: ORGANIZED SPORTS, RECREATION AND TELEVISION

GROUP 7

LEISURE TIME


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CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

MAIN CONTENT

CONCLUSION

General view about

2.1. Sport and American

Take a look at the leisure

American’s leisure time

values

time of American nowadays

activities

2.2. Competition
2.3. Recreation
2.4. Health and Fitness

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2.5. Television


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Introduction

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Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time

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The popularity of sports as leisure activities grew as people began to see the
importance of exercise to health


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Sport can build character and
promote the virtues of honesty,
respect, selfless teamwork,
dedication

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"5 major sports“

2.1. Sport and
American
values

American football
Baseball
Basketball
Ice hockey
Soccer


BENEFIT OF SPORT WITH CHILDREN

help children learn many things when they are accompanied by teammates

2.1.1. Features
of sports in
America

children have a happy state, develop skills of perseverance and morality

help children increase physical strength and resistance


2.1.1. Features of
sports in America
In sports, people of different
races and economic background
get an equal chance to excel

Women's sports are growing in

The 1996 Olympic, American women

popularity in the US.

won gold medals for several team
sports - softball, basketball, soccer and
gymnastics.


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The number of people participates in regular sports
practice reaches 363,000 people, accounting for 33%
of the population

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Vietnam is increasingly focusing on developing
sports that are both entertaining and healthy


2.1.2

How America values affect
organized sports ?


The competitive ethic in

organized sports contains
some elements of hard work.

first

The idea of competition is at
the very heart of organized
sports in the United States.

second

last

Organized
sports as
“national religion”


Ideal of
competition

Many Americans believe

It is commonly held that the

Parents who are willing to

that learning how to win in

competitive ethic taught in

shoulder the expense of

sports helps develop the

sports must be learned and

their children’s sports and

habits necessary to

ingrained in youth for the

drive their kids to practices

compete successfully in

future success of American

and to competitions hours

later life.

business and military

away.

efforts.

"Hustle-you can't survive
without it".
"A quitter never wins, a

Hard
work

winner never quits".
"It's easy to be ordinary,
but it takes guts to excel."


Mixture of patriotism and
national pride on the one
hand with religious ideas
Organized sports
as “national
religion”

“The Bible says leisure and lying around are morally dangerous...
sports keep us busy. There are probably more really committed
Christians in sports than in any other occupation in America."
--Billy Graham


Tebowing

Does
GodBroncos
influence

football games?
Denver
quarterback
Tim

Organized sports
as “national
religion”

"God
will
give
you power
to do your
Tebow
has
become
the poster
child for
best,
then athletes,
it's up to and
you his
make
decisions
Christian
one-knee
and
choices
that

cause so
you
to win or
prayers
have
become
common
that
lose."
"Tebowing" is now synonymous with
public prayer.


US

2.1.3

VietNam

The equality of

Organized sports are "a laboratory in which young men, regardless of

opportunity

social class, can learn the advantages and rewards of a competitive
system.”

Ideal of competition

Compare with

Learning how to win in sports helps

Vietnamese can compete against

develop the habits necessary to

others, receive a challenge and strive

compete successfully in later life.

to be better, and to set winning as a
goal for sports and for life.

Vietnam

Organized sports as

Amateur athletics, associated with

Organized Sports are used as a

“national religion”

schools and colleges, are valued for

bridge to link people from all age

teaching young people traditional

groups as you can see children

American values

participating in karate classes or two
elderly men playing a game of chess
or badminton in the parks.


2.2. Competition


Competitive sports became popular in the United States from 1850 – 1950 because of lighting technology, mass
media, and developing labor and education laws.

Competition in the
past

Sports are an essential and important aspect of American society; they are indispensable when it comes to their impact on a
plethora of public arenas, including economics and the mass media.


▸

For 10 years ago, many Americans
adults agreeing that sport places too
much emphasis on winning.

Winning is the

only thing that
matters in sport

▸

Many regard U.S. society as one in
which winning is rewarded and effort
and participation are often overlooked.


Many believe that the focus on winning in professional sports is acceptable and appropriate.

While winning should not be the only goal in sports, many coaches admit to believing that it is
important to strive to win.

The coach focused on outcomes. . Results mattered a lot.


CRITICISM AND
REBUTTAL


CRITICISM

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Both disorder and violence in sports

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Happy to see fight during the games

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Bring players closer together, increase the winning spirit

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Sport Fans expect fighting as a part of the entertainment.

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Eliminating competition leads to laziness and accomplishment.


- Appear articles criticizing these violences in games
- Increasing numbers affect students playing sports
- The criticism attempts breakdown the basic foundation of the society
- Fans have to pay more for tickets


The similar

Both sports competition in VietNam and America become a good factor for ethical education when the success of
each individual is considered as the victory of the whole team when individual achievements can be achieved
through the group.

Compare with
Viet Nam

While many people believe that this
density is too large and can lead to
injury of many players. However, the
insiders are not really worried that the
quality of the tournament expertise will

Compare with

The differences

still be guaranteed.

Viet Nam

They concern about concentrating

Vietnamese take

more on growing personalities of

interest in

competitors than having winning in

personalities more

competition relate to country’s

than winning.

education system


2.3. RECREATION


a. The well-known expression "we like

2.3.1

b. The high level of physical activity

to work hard and play hard“
What began in the 1970s, as the "physical fitness
craze" has become a way of life for many. A number

Yet the people who enjoy these physical activities

of people regularly work out at sports clubs - lifting
POPULARITTY

Long-distance
marathon
races
areor
soracquetball,
popular that
weights, swimming,
playing

squash
the
organizersinoften
have
to limit
the number
participating
aerobic
exercise
classes,
or using of
exercise
bikes,
rowing
machines,
stairpeople
who
cantreadmills,
participate.
In addition
toorthe
steppers.
famous
Boston and New York marathons, there

are races in many other cities and even in small
towns.

often say that they find them very relaxing mentally
because the activity is so different from the kind of

activity they must do in the world of work, often
indoor office work involving mind rather than body.