SPORTSBY: SARA,NATALIA,

MARIO AND RAUL.G

EUROPE:

One common sport in Europe is the football:The most common sport in Europe is association football (soccer). European club teams are the highest paid in the world, and the UEFA Champions League (the European clubs championship) is one of the sport's most prestigious tournaments. European national teams compete in the UEFA European Football Championship. The most popular and successful football leagues are the Spanish La Liga, the English Premier League, the Italian Serie A, the French Ligue 1, and the German Bundesliga.

EUROPE:Tennis is a racquet sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racquet that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent´s court.

The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good return.

AUSTRALIA:Another common sport of Australia is SURF:For centuries, surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture. Surfing

may have first been observed by Europeans at Tahiti in 1767 by Samuel Wallis

and the crew members of the Dolphin who were the first Europeans to visit the

island in June of that year. Another candidate is the botanist Joseph Banks[2]

being part of the first voyage of James Cook on theHMS Endeavour, who arrived

on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant James King was the first person to write

about the art of surfing on Hawaii when he was completing the journals of

Captain James Cook upon Cook's death in 1779.

When Mark Twain visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote,

AUSTRALIA:Buroinjin has been added to the curriculum of around half of all Canberra

schools and it is one of more than 100 traditional sports being taught to

Australian teachers.

The rules have been adapted from the game played by the Kabi Kabi people of

southern Queensland, with modern-day teams having 15 minutes to score goals

with minimal contact

"It's just everyone working together as a team," Wanniassa Hills Primary School

student Samir Ezzat, 11, said.

"Once you have the ball you are only allowed to take five steps to bounce it five

steps. You can't bounce it again."

AFRICA:

The most important sport in Africa is the MARTIAL ARTS:Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a variety of reasons: self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development.Although the term martial art has become associated with the fighting arts of Africa.

AFRICAANOTHER COMMON SPORT IN Africa is Nuba:

Training for both wrestling and stick fighting includes practicing under the supervision of former champions, performing athletic dances, learning traditional songs, and drinking lots of milk while avoiding promiscuity and beer.

The goal of Nuba wrestling is to slam the opponent to the ground. Wrestling is relatively recreational, and serious injuries are rare.

NORTH AMERICA:Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to abackboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.[1]

The inventor of basketball is James Naismith.

NORTH AMERICATHE MOST IMPORTANT SPORT IN NORTH AMERICA IS THE RUGBY:

Rugby is a sport born in England the inventor of rugby is Willian Webb Ellis.The rugby is a sport in which face two hardware of fifteen players in which the main objective fundamental is to get more points than the opponent, the points can be obtained from 5 ways are: Try, penalty try, drop goal, goal from a penalty and conversion or transformation.

SOUTH AMERICA:Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964.

SOUTH AMERICA:A very common sport in south america is the ajutatut.Players form a circle, standing or kneeling, and placed a hand on his back.

The goal is that a ball go past a player to his right, hitting it with the palm of the free hand and preventing it from falling to the ground. Obviously it is not allowed catching the ball at any time.

Sometimes players count the number of turns the ball hits before falling to the ground.

ASIA:KOK-BORU is a traditional sport of Asia,consist of people who go on horse and struggle to get the skin of a sheep.

ASIA:PIRAGÜISMO is tipical sport of Asia.Canoeing is a paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and propel yourself with a single-bladed paddle, under your own power. Kayaking is a comparable activity in a kayak which usually has a closed deck and is propelled with a double bladed paddle. In a kayak the paddler typically sits with legs extended forward.

CREDITOS:

Hecho por 4 alumnos del colegio Publico Maestro Juan Alcaide. En: Valdepeñas,(CASTILLA-LA MANCHA)ESPAÑA.