Костя и физкультура

Kostya and PE

A2 · Elementary · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An elementary story for anyone who ever dreaded a PE lesson. Kostya is twelve, always last in the ten laps, and always picked last for football — until a table tennis table appears in the school corridor. He never learns to love football. He finds something else instead.

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Characters

Kostya (Костя) — Year Six, hates PE
Igor Petrovich (Игорь Петрович) — The PE teacher
Mama (Мама) — Kostya's mother
Dasha (Даша) — Classmate

Vocabulary from this story

спорт — sport
физкультура — PE
футбол — football
волейбол — volleyball
теннис — table tennis
мяч — ball
ракетка — bat
круг — lap
игра — game
игрок — player
капитан — captain
защита — defence