节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-09-30
难易度:Medium
关键字:confidence, calculate, prevention, competitive, good sport, lifestyle
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And your English will improve today.
Our lesson is called The Benefits of Sports.
Of course, people love to play sports.
People love to watch sports.
And in today's lesson, you're going to learn how sports can be good for you in
many ways.
But my question for you, first, is: What kind of sports do you like to play and
what kind of sports do you like to watch?
Carolyn?
Well, I don't play a lot of sports.
I don't think that I'm a very athletic person.
But one sport that I would love to try and I really love to watch is ice
skating.
Hmm, ice skating.
Well, that can be quite fun.
I'm not a very good ice skater myself.
I enjoy watching baseball sometimes.
I love watching basketball games.
They can get very exciting.
For playing, I enjoy a game called ultimate Frisbee.
And of course, I love playing badminton with some friends.
What about you?
Think about that.
Talk about it.
Share it with your friends later.
But for now, let's get into our lesson The Benefits of Sports.
The Benefits of Sports.
Seven good reasons to start playing your favorite sport today!
Hitting a tennis ball, throwing a baseball or kicking a soccer ball bring hours
of enjoyment.
But did you know that participating in sports has lots of benefits, too?
The benefits include:
Greater confidence: Winning helps you feel a sense of accomplishment and feel
good about yourself.
Becoming a good sport:
Winning feels great, but losing teaches you how to deal with disappointments in
life while still maintaining a positive attitude.
Improved math skills: Players use math skills as they calculate team scores,
etc.
New friends: Playing on a team gives you the chance to meet people with the same
interests.
Those sound like some pretty good benefits to me so far.
And at the beginning we see:
Seven good reasons to start playing your favorite sport today!
So we will be talking about seven great benefits that you can get from playing
sports.
And at the very beginning here:
Hitting a tennis ball, throwing a baseball or kicking a soccer ball bring hours
of enjoyment.
That's right. I couldn't agree more.
I think that playing sports, especially with other people or when you're just
doing it for exercise, it can be very enjoyable.
We continue.
But did you know that participating in sports has lots of benefits, too?
OK. So aside from being enjoyable (I think that's a benefit), but aside from
that, there are other benefits.
That's right.
It's not just fun.
Playing sports is very good for you.
Other than being fun, it has other benefits.
And these benefits include... or the benefits include greater confidence.
The first one is confidence.
And that's a word from our Word Bank.
If you have confidence, then you believe that you can do something, that you are
able to do it and do it well.
And I think that many people want to have more confidence.
And you know what someone looks like when they have confidence.
The adjective form of this word is confident, C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T.
They are a confident person.
Of course we all know what that looks like.
And I hope that you are being... or becoming more and more confident every day,
that you have more confidence especially when it comes to learning English and
using your English.
That's right.
Well, it is one of the benefits of sports: greater confidence.
Winning helps you feel a sense of accomplishment and feel good about yourself.
So when you succeed in doing something, you have more confidence, or you feel
more confident, as Gabe said earlier.
And you feel a sense of accomplishment here.
Now we see another benefit here.
I like this one a lot.
Becoming a good sport.
Carolyn, what does it mean to be a good sport?
Well, if you are a good sport, that means that when you win, you are very happy
but you don't make fun of the other team.
And when you lose, you accept that you lost and you don't get upset.
That's right.
Now we're learning the word or the phrase "to be a good sport" today.
But I also want to share with you the opposite - it means to be a sore loser.
If you lose and you're not a good sport, you could call that person a sore
loser, S-O-R-E loser. OK.
Don't be a sore loser.
No matter whether you win or lose, you want to be a good sport.
And we read here:
Winning feels great, but losing teaches you how to deal with disappointments in
life while still maintaining a positive attitude.
And I think that's very true.
So if you play sports and you win, you can have more self-confidence.
You can be more sure of your ability to do something.
But if you lose, you can still be a good sport and learn how to accept when
things don't go the way you want them to.
Well, right now it's time for us to enjoy time with Liz in the Grammar Gym.
She has something important she wants to share with us there.
Hi there, friends.
Welcome to the Grammar Gym.
My name is Liz.
We find this statement in today's article: ... losing teaches you how to deal
with disappointments in life while still maintaining a positive attitude.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence.
Today our focus is on the patter: [Situation 1] + while still maintaining
[situation 2].
So in today's sentence, we have situation 1: losing teaches you how to deal with
disappointments in life, and then situation 2: a positive attitude.
Put the two together and then add in "while still maintaining" in between the
two situations,
and this is a good pattern to use to describe how a subject can still be doing
something even with another situation going on at the same time.
Here are some examples.
Let's say Robert was able to study well and play lots of tennis, so we can say:
Robert was able to compete in several tennis tournaments while still maintaining
good grades in school.
Or, let's suppose Miriam had two jobs but was still able to go to school during
the day, so we can say:
Miriam was able to attend classes during the day while still maintaining two
jobs.
So give this pattern a try.
And that's it for today.
This is Liz from the Grammar Gym.
See you next time.
Thank you, Liz.
Well, we will continue maintaining our positive attitude throughout this lesson
as we go to our next point - Improved math skills.
So if you play sports, you can improve your math skills.
And how can they do that, Gabe?
Well, players use math skills as they calculate team scores, etc.
Well, let's look at that word from our Word Bank: calculate.
When you calculate something, that means you're trying to figure it out.
And often we use this word with math.
Adding and subtracting, multiplying, dividing, you are calculating these numbers
in your head.
That's right.
So you might want to calculate the total number of games that you've won this
season or the number of points that you scored in the last game.
You can calculate your winnings, how often you have won.
So you can improve your math skills.
And this is a great point since many people think that athletes don't do well in
other subjects in school.
That is very interesting and very true.
A lot of people feel that way about athletes, but many of them are quite smart.
Well, this word "calculate" kind of makes me think of the word "calculator"
because many of us know how to use a calculator.
C-A-L-C-U-L-A-T-O-R.
That's the machine that you use.
And many smartphones have these now, too, and cellphones.
Carolyn, does your cellphone have a calculator on it?
It does.
As I have mentioned before, I use my cellphone to do math.
I use it to calculate numbers.
Very good, very good.
Well, you can calculate with a calculator or calculate just inside your head.
Of course another benefit here we're talking about is new friends.
Playing on a team gives you the chance to meet people with the same interests.
And I think that's a great benefit for playing sports.
That's right. And it's very true.
If you are on a team sport and you are playing with other people, then you meet
people that are like you.
And they also enjoy playing that sport, so.
Join a baseball team, a basketball team, any kind of team sport where you can
meet people who enjoy playing it as well.
Well, I know someone else who has the same interests as Carolyn and myself,
someone who wants you to improve in your English.
And that is Michelle waiting for us in the Language Lab.