节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2013-07-18
难易度:Medium
关键字:tournament, stroke, refer, assume, British Open
Hello, and welcome to Studio Classroom.
My name is Gabe.
And my name is Carolyn.
And we're glad that you could join us for an interesting lesson today about how
English is taking some words from a sport. OK.
The title is Swing into Golf Idioms.
OK. We're going to be learning about some English idioms today that come from
the sport golf.
Well, I do wonder if you have ever played golf.
Carolyn, have you ever played golf?
Well, I've played putt-putt golf, and I've walked around on a golf course.
There were a lot of beautiful golf courses in West Virginia, and I've been on a
few of them.
But I have not actually played the game of golf.
You know, neither have I.
I like golf courses, too.
I like riding around in the carts on golf courses.
I, too, have played what Carolyn just called "putt-putt golf." It's not a real
golf game.
It's actually quite fun.
It's similar.
You can look it up sometime.
But today we're going to be learning about some idioms that come from the sport
of golf.
So, let's get right into our lesson.
Swing into Golf Idioms.
Golf has introduced some interesting phrases into English.
Today top golfers will compete in the sport's oldest major tournament, the
British Open.
Also called The Open, this year's tournament will take place over the next four
days.
Golf fan or not, you can still thank the sport for adding some colorful phrases
to the English language.
Par for the course.
Golf courses set the number of strokes required to put the ball in each hole and
to finish the entire course.
To make par for the course, a player must finish the course within a set number
of strokes.
Well, how are you doing?
Are you par for the course?
Well, let's go back to the beginning of our article.
Golf has introduced some interesting phrases into English.
And it certainly has.
We're going to be learning all about them.
Today top golfers will compete in the sport's oldest major tournament, the
British Open.
Well, let's take a look at that good word there.
It's from our Word Bank: tournament.
If you enjoy sports and you enjoy competing against others, then maybe you have
participated in a tournament of some kind.
Usually it's held at one place.
But it could be held at a place over many days.
And what kind of sports do you like to play?
I remember when I was in high school on the basketball team, we had basketball
tournaments.
Many schools would show up at our school and play basketball against each other.
That's right.
So a tournament is a big game between many different teams to see who is the
best in the region.
And here this one is talking about the British Open, and it is golf's oldest
major tournament.
They want to determine who is the best golfer.
That's right.
Well, you know there are other kinds of tournaments, too.
If you enjoy playing card games or chess and there's the competition, that's
also called a tournament - to determine who is the best.
Well, let's continue learning about this.
Also called The Open, this year's tournament will take place over the next
couple of days... actually the next four days.
So the British Open is also called The Open.
That's right.
And it is a very big tournament if it takes four days.
Golf fan or not, you can still thank the sport for adding some colorful phrases
to the English language.
So whether or not you are a fan of golf, it doesn't matter, you can still thank
this sport for some very interesting phrases that we use in English.
Well, I think we need to look at a word from that sentence.
The word is "colorful." Usually I use this word when I'm thinking about a
painting or a drawing, something that I can see with my eyes.
Oh, your clothes are very colorful.
But how can you use this word in other ways, Carolyn?
Well, here we're talking about colorful phrases in a language.
You might also talk about emotions being colorful.
Maybe someone has a lot of different emotions.
They have colorful emotions.
It's true.
Maybe someone has a colorful personality.
They're very interesting to spend time with because of their colorful
personality.
Or maybe someone is sharing a story.
It's not boring at all.
It's quite a colorful or interesting story.
So what's the first idiom we're going to talk about here?
Par for the course.
Golf courses set the number of strokes required to put the ball in each hole and
to finish the entire course.
Now in that sentence we see a word from our Word Bank, the word "stroke." Now
what is a stroke, Gabe?
Well, a stroke is when you use your hand or arm in a sport.
Many sports you might have some strokes, and then you hit something like a ball.
So in golf, then you have a number of strokes.
That means you swing your golf club.
That is considered a stroke.
That's right.
And so if you swing your golf club once, that is one stroke.
And each golf course will set their own number of strokes for that course, and
that is called par.
That's right.
And let's continue learning about par.
To make par for the course, a player must finish the course within the set
number of strokes.
So they tell you how many strokes you're allowed.
And if you can do it in... under the number that they give you, then you make
par for the course, which is a good thing.
You want to do have less amount of strokes, not... not more amount of strokes.
That's right.
Well, right now it is time for us to go join Michelle in the Language Lab.