节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-10-25
难易度:Low
关键字:popular, underwater, revise, compete, hockey, chessboxing
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
We're talking about Making Old Sports New.
You are going to learn about some sports in our lesson over the next couple of
days.
And they're very unique sports.
They look like traditional sports like basketball and volleyball and soccer, but
they're kind of new.
They're very different.
People have changed the rules, or they've even added new rules.
Now do you ever play games and maybe change the rules to make it more
interesting?
Carolyn, do you ever do that?
Well, it can make games more interesting.
And I think a lot of times people will change the rules to card games most
often.
But sometimes my siblings, my brother and sisters and I, we would change the
rules to games like hide-and-seek,
where we would add rules from the game tag where you had to hide from the
person,
and then run to the base where the person had been counting while they were
gone.
And if they see you, it's not just you have to get back to the base, you have to
get there before they tag you.
OK. Well, that's a good rule to make it very interesting and very challenging.
I like that rule, that addition.
Well, what do you do to games to make them more interesting?
Talk about that with somebody in English.
But of course, let's get started now.
Open up your magazine - Making Old Sports New.
Making Old Sports New.
New ways to play your favorite games.
Basketball, baseball and soccer are classic sports that people will always
enjoy.
And yet we keep changing popular games like these in new ways to keep them
fresh.
Underwater hockey.
This game is played in swimming pools with two teams of six players.
Each player has flippers, a snorkel and a stick used for hitting a puck.
Each team earns points by hitting the puck into its underwater goal.
Well, we're going to continue learning about underwater hockey.
But first, let's go back to the top of this section here.
We read: Making Old Sports New.
OK, so you're making something new.
There are new ways to do things in life, right?
Make something new, do something in a new way.
And here we read: New ways to play your favorite games.
And that's what we're going to be talking about.
That's right.
And we start off with some very common popular games.
Basketball, baseball and soccer are classic sports that people will always
enjoy.
And it's true, lots of people enjoy playing those sports.
And they will be enjoyed for many years to come.
But we continue.
And yet we keep changing popular games like these in new ways to keep them
fresh.
Well, let's take a look at that word from our Word Bank.
It is "popular." Yes.
If something is popular, that means many people enjoy it.
If someone is popular, that means many people like that person.
That's right.
So maybe you are a popular person at school or you know who the popular people
are.
But these sports are also very popular.
And we're going to be talking about some sports that are combining a few
different elements from other sports to make these old sports new.
And they are becoming very popular new sports.
That's right.
And we are keeping these sports fresh. OK.
These are some fresh things we're talking about.
Let's look at that word "fresh." New ways to keep these sports fresh.
Well, how else could you use that word?
You could talk about fresh ideas.
It's good to have fresh ideas.
Maybe you want to invite someone new onto your team so that you have some fresh
ideas.
So fresh is not just an adjective we use to talk about food or air.
But you could talk about other things, too.
What else could be fresh