TOPIC: LEISURE TIME: ORGANIZED SPORTS, RECREATION AND TELEVISION

GROUP LEISURE TIME � 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 � 2.5 Television I Introduction - Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time - The popularity of sports as leisure activities grew as people began to see the importance of exercise to health - Sport can build character and promote the virtues of honesty, respect, selfless teamwork, dedication - "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 - The number of people participates in regular sports practice reaches 363,000 people, accounting for 33% of the population - 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   2.4.3 American Vietnamese Exerciseor - Less than half of American exercise in their leisure time - More than half of Vietnamese exercise in their leisure time (60%) Working out - Men, who have more leisure time on average, spend 6.6% of their - Can be seen throughout the day, ranging from before dawn to very late at time exercising, while women spend 5% night   Compare with Obesity Vietnamese people - 30.5% of American adults were obese, meaning they had a body - Vietnam is the least obese country with 2.1% of the population classified as mass index of 30 or higher That rate helped to fuel related health obese issues like diabetes and some cancers – all of which are among the - The highest rise in the number of obese people those with a body mass leading causes of death in the U.S index above 25 This contributes the number of Vietnamese people with metabolic disorders, obesity, cancers, has considerably increased Eating habits - They eat what they really want - Their foods are healthy and balanced - 50% of Americans eat pizza once every two weeks - Dishes and ingredients can cover all the dietary needs on protein, lipids, - They love fast food so much such as: hamburgers, KFC, French vitamins and minerals fries, and soft drink, - out of meals of the day often consist of steamed rice with side dishes of - Eating “on the run” vegetables, meat, fish or tofu   - They often eat with all members in the family • Reasons for these differences:  Western countries Eastern countries  American: spend time on using phone, others, Vietnamese: like doing exercise => keep fit => body  American: the wives go out to work => prefer fast food Vietnamese: many housewives => take times to cook nutritious meals  American: save time => choose fast food Vietnamese: agricultural country => enough nutritious fruits and vegetables 2.5 TELEVISION IN AMREICA 2.5.1: Ironically, as Americans have gotten heavier as a population, the image of a beautiful woman has gotten much slimmer As a result, many teenage girls have become insecure about their bodies and obsessed Negative with losing weight impact Eating disorders are now common among young women In a recent study, 72 percent said that they believed there was too much violence on television They are not getting as much exercises as they should, but the effect on their bodies may not be serious as the effect on their minds One of the most worrying problem is that children are watching TV programs and videotapes an average of four or five hours a day 2.5.2 ▸ of their viewing time watching commercial television ▸ Solutions Public television provides many educational show -> children still spend majority Many parents think they can use the help in monitoring what their children see -> reality, both parents are working and nearly 50% of children between the ages of 6and 17 have their own TV in the bedroom… and results 2.5.2 - The popularity of home computers and surfing the net has brought a whole new world of leisure-time activities to Americans - Now parents have to worry about monitoring the computer in addition to monitoring the TV 2.5.3 Aspects Vietnamese American Reasons Popularity In the past, during the War, Television appeared earlier than In Vietnam, because of the War people have little chance of in Vietnam American could and poverty prevents people watching TV Nowadays, TV watch TV long time ago haing chance of watching becomes more popular in televiosion in the past almost country However, in   some remote areas, Tv is still Compare uncommon with Vietnam TV shows Is completely controlled by Is not completely controlled by goverment goverment   CONCLUSION Leisure time of Americans nowadays *Leisure time *Sports *Recreation *TV Leisure time Having more leisure time than recognized Men generally having a bit more free time than women Americans report they spend most of that time looking at screens Spending even 7% of their free time on physical activity ching TV was the leisure activity that upied the most time Socializing and communicating The birth of Tiktok Most people working That changes the way from home and a large young people number of people As the coronavirus pandemic has changed Using their free time ranking in unemployment people’s lives Some have more spare time and be lazier Some consider as chance to break bad habit, enjoy themselves Sports An inspiring example of opportunity in action also a way to stay healthy and fit 21 St 70s century sports not resemble what your father watched back in the 60s and More ports celebrities Sports “me first, team second” attitude Coronavirus pandemic E-sport Football without fans ... 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 � 2.5 Television I... 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... 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