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
Today we're talking about The Benefits of Sports.
And of course, people love to watch sports.
Maybe you love to play different kinds of sports, and I hope you enjoy it.
But of course, there are many benefits to playing sports.
Some that we've talked about so far are greater confidence, becoming a good
sport, improved math skills and developing or making new friends.
And of course, we have more to learn in the next part of our lesson for today.
The Benefits of Sports.
Disease prevention:
Playing sports helps prevent cancer, heart disease, depression and other
diseases.
Playing also helps to build healthy bones.
A healthy lifestyle:
Kids who play sports are less likely to smoke or take drugs because of the
negative effects on their performance.
Reduced stress:
Playing sports helps to reduce stress.
Exercise releases a chemical in the brain that makes you feel happy and less
anxious.
Whether playing competitive sports or just a social game, you should have fun.
So get up and get active because there are lots of good reasons to go out and
play!
There are many good reasons to be playing sports.
And in our lesson, we are talking about seven of the benefits of playing sports.
We have three more to talk about in this section.
The first one: Disease prevention.
And that's one of the words from our Word Bank.
Gabe, what is prevention?
Well, when you prevent something from happening, that means you stop it from
happening.
So disease prevention is stopping a disease from happening to you or stopping
yourself from getting a disease. OK.
So the word "prevention" can be used in other ways.
We're talking a lot today about cancer prevention, ways to stop cancer from
happening around the world.
Well, that is one disease that we do want to prevent.
Another topic we've talked about this month was cellphones in schools and how
that can be affected by... or how bullying can affect that, so.
You might have bullying prevention.
You want to prevent other students from being bullied.
That's right.
And of course, we're talking about pollution prevention today as well.
Around the world, there are many cities that are being polluted.
Let's try to prevent that from happening.
OK, so we're talking about... disease prevention.
Playing sports helps prevent cancer, heart disease, depression and other
diseases.
So playing also helps to build healthy bones.
Wow! It sounds like there are a lot of health benefits to playing sports.
If you want to prevent these different kinds of diseases, then maybe you should
get out and play.
Go do something.
Join an active sport.
And we have another great benefit here on our list: a healthy lifestyle.
And lifestyle just means the way that you live.
That's right.
So do you have a healthy lifestyle?
Well, we read more about this here.
Kids who play sports are less likely to smoke or take drugs because of the
negative side effects... or the negative effects on their performance.
I said "side effects." Actually, that's true.
These are often called side effects.
There might be something that you do, and you think it's OK for you, but it has
bad side effects.
That's right.
And usually we use that when talking about drugs.
What are the side effects of this drug?
But here we're talking about the benefit of sports and how they can help you
lead a healthier lifestyle.
Because if you smoke or drink or take other kinds of drugs, it can really affect
your performance and you're not able to play as well as you should be.
And I know some people who think about this when they are playing sports.
Actually, their lifestyles.
They are tempted sometimes to smoke or drink or do drugs.
But they remember it will have a negative effect on their performance while they
play some sports.
And so it helps them to say no to those things.
Let's look at our last tip for today.
The last benefit here is reduced stress.
Well, that sounds great.
We all want to reduce the stress we have in our lives, and playing sports helps
to reduce stress.
I think I might need to pick up a sport, Gabe.
Well... why?
What... what does that mean?
Carolyn, are you stressed out a lot?
Well, you know, sometimes there's just... life happens, and there's a lot of
stress.
I think we all need to be playing more sports.
You know, I agree with you.
And I think that if you do have a lot of stress, if you experience a lot of
stress, sports would be great for you.
Playing sports helps to reduce stress.
Exercise releases a chemical in the brain that makes you feel happy and less
anxious.
And this chemical is actually... it's called an endorphin, E-N-D-O-R-P-H-I-N.
And exercise releases this in your brain.
Well, that sounds great.
And in our last little paragraph here:
Whether playing competitive sports or just a social game, you should have fun.
And we have another word from our Word Bank: competitive.
That means that you are competing against someone else, another company,
business, a person or another team.
And some people in life are very competitive.
Other people don't like to compete very much.
When they realize that you are a competitive person, they say: It's OK. I don't
want to take part.
So what about you?
Are you a competitive person?
Or are you not a competitive person?
Personally, I like competition.
I love to compete with other people.
Sometimes I can be a very competitive person.
Oh, well.
Then I will probably not play sports with you, Gabe.
No... You just need to play on my team, Carolyn.
This is true, this is true.
Well, so get up and get active because there are lots of good reasons to go out
and play!
So you don't need to be sitting inside all day.
Go outside and play.
Well, let's take a look at a phrase there.
Actually we see the word "get" twice: get up and get active.
And if you get something, like getting active, that means you are going to start
doing that.
But how else could you use that word?
What other words could you use with this word, Carolyn?
Well, you might say get up and get moving.
OK.
Get out and get working.
So you can use this "get something, get something," two verbs after the word
get.
Well, I think we need to get going.
It's time for Steve and Ken to take over.
And then we'll visit Michelle in the Language Lab.
Now that you know all the benefits of playing sports, there is one more thing
we'd like to talk about when it comes to the word sport.
And that is sport, the verb.
Hey, Steve, have you seen the funky hat people are sporting these days?
Yeah, Ken. It looks really cool.
I'd love to sport one of those.
OK, friends, did you catch that?
You can sport a hat.
Now even though it's basically used as a noun, sport can be a verb.
To sport means to display or show off.
So if you're sporting that funky hat like Ken is, you're wearing it so that
everyone can see it.
Some men like to sport a mustache, a goatee or a beard because they think they
look good with it.
Maybe I'll grow a goatee and sport it.
I like to see that.
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OK.
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OK. Now get ready to learn more from our teachers.
Today we've enjoyed learning about seven of the benefits that you can get from
playing sports.
But you know, some sports are very specific in what they can help you do.
There is a sidebar on specific benefits for certain sports.
Gabe, which one is your favorite?
Well, actually I like the one for basketball.
Many people want to be taller.
Well, sometimes if you play basketball a lot, that will help to stretch out your
body because you're doing a lot of jumping.
And actually, some people do get taller through playing basketball.
Yes, but I think you would probably need to start at a young age when you are
still growing.
Yeah, you're right.
Well, I hope that you have learned a lot here on Studio Classroom today about
The Benefits of Sports.
And we'll see you next time.
See you later.