today's lesson is on vocabulary for the Olympics

so the Olympics happen every four years the summer olympics happen every four

years and the winter olympics happen every two years

so the things that happen quite regularly and as a result this

vocabulary is is pretty important to know if you want to talk about the

Olympics

so let's get started so first of all the first vocabulary we're going to learn

today are the people of the olympics

so the first word i have here and all of these are announced the first word i

have here is athletic meet

so who are the athletes the athletes are the people who play the sports or who

enter the tournament's so for example David Beckham

he is an example of an athlete

Michael Jordan Luis Suarez yuming there are hundreds of athletes

I could give examples of so these are the athletes

the next word is coach who are the coaches they're almost like the bosses

of the athletes so there

if there's a team the coaches the person who decides who's playing and who's

going to sit out the coach decides how the team will win or how the athlete

will win the sport

so the coach often tries to motivate athletes to do better and their main

goal is to help the team when through strategies and game plan

next we have the trainer so the trainer is a little different than the coach

they work with the athlete to get them into top physical shape

so the athletes are nice strong able to run long distances able to compete well

so the trainer focuses on the athlete's body and getting it up to speed

next we have the word referee also known as the rep so the referee or the Rev is

the the person who usually has a whistle and they make sure that the athletes

follow the rules if the athlete doesn't follow the rules they blow their whistle

and usually give some sort of penalty

so this is the referee the next word we have judge

now a lot of people think judge in sports well a judge is a person who

usually gives marks and in certain events

so you don't find a judge in all events but you do find judges and figure

skating boxing and these types of these types of events where they usually hold

up a sign and with points on it

so 10 points for example finally we have the word spectator

so who are the spectators the spectators are the people who watch the event

so if you've ever gone to a soccer game of baseball game to the Olympics maybe

and you watched people play a sport you are the spectator

so usually during the Olympics there are thousands and thousands of spectators

people watching sports

actually i'm going to add one more word here

fan so fans are there are usually tip of spectator their people who really love a

certain team or a certain player

so are you fans of any athletes are any of you at their huge david beckham fans

or big Michael Jordan band

yuming let me know if you're a fan of any athletes

ok so next we are going to look at places and things of the olympics

so here are some of the places of the olympics and you will hear them

constantly talked about in the news if you're you're reading up on the Olympics

these are really good words to know so these are all nouns as well and so is to

keep that in mind

so the first word we have is the venue so venue

what's a venue it's a very simple word which means a place where an event is

held

so we don't just use it for sports

we also use it for concerts for any type of event we talk about the venue where

the event is going to take place

so there are different types of venues at the Olympics so venue is almost like

the umbrella term the rest of the words are underneath venue so they're all

types of venues

so the first word we have is stadium so a stadium is a circular building or an

oval shaped building that has a lot of seats usually thousands of seeds and

this is where you sit and you watch different sports take place or or

concerts

so in general not that great of a draw a little

just tried to

so you notice it's oval shaped and inside the stadium there would be

thousands of seeds and of course the closer you are to the floor

the better there are some seats near the top these aren't really that good to

have you can't really see anything

sometimes we actually call this the nose lead section

ok I'm so stadiums are often without roofs so often times you can see this

the sky when you're in a stadium now an arena is very similar to the stadium

often the word arena and stadium are used interchangeably

so you can say stadium or arena they usually mean the same thing

although sometimes some people say that an arena has a roof and so it's

completely indoors where as a stadium is outdoors

although again this depends usually they are used interchangeably

so again you could use stadium or an arena to describe this type of building

the next word we have is swimming pool a lot of you probably know this word

already

it's a venue for the Olympics a lot of sports are water sports and they take

place at the swimming pool

finally we have the word track

so what is a track well it's also this shape and people either run on the track

so they run around other sports take place there too

I with horses for example we have the racetrack where the horses run around

the track or sometimes we have car racing on a track

so all of these use the same word track alright so now let's look at some

objects of the olympics

ok so first of all we have

the torch this is almost the the it's the symbol of the olympics

so what is a torch I can't I don't know if you can tell what this is but this is

supposed to be fire and this is supposed to be like a stick

so the torch is the object that Olympians hold

usually you the torch is taken through many different countries throughout the

year

people run with the torch from one country to another country to another

country

so here's an example of what it would look like the next word we have is the

metal now this is the goal of the all the Olympians they want to win a medal

what color do the metals come in at the best one is gold so you can be a gold

medalist and that's what we call somebody who wins the metal a medalist

if you come in second you would be a silver medalist and you would win the

silver metal and for third place

it's bronze the bronze is the third place and you would be a bronze medalist

if you want a third place

next we have the word podium so the podium is this thing these little people

are standing on

so these imagine them as Olympians I know they're kind of skinny for

Olympians but and so usually the person who wins the gold would be at the top of

this part of the podium silver or second place is here and third places here so

this whole thing with the three levels is the podium so after somebody wins an

event they get to go on the podium

smile for the cameras wave to everyone and get awarded with a metal

now let's look at some of the common sports at the Olympics

ok so let's get started on some of the common sports at the Olympics

the first one we have here is weight lifting

so what is weight lifting well i have here what are called barbells

it's when both men and women they lift very heavy weights and whoever lift the

heaviest amount of weights wins the competition

that's weightlifting usually the people in weightlifting they have these huge

muscles

the second sport

we're going to talk about wrestling now I i don't know if you can really

understand this picture - well I tried

this is a mat and on this mat there are two people who are wrestling which means

it's a form of fighting and the point of wrestling is to try to get your opponent

on the ground whether i think their shoulders are supposed to touch the

ground

so it's a form of fighting that you often see in the Olympics

ok and in the Olympics

it's different from WWE wrestling a head is it is very different so this is

olympic wrestling

the third one is archery bow archery

here we have the bow and here we have the arrow

so that's where you shoot an arrow from a bow that archery our next sport of

boxing

so here i have a boxing glove so this is a type of fighting where people box

after that gymnastics so i've drawn here there are there are different forms of

gymnastics

there are many different types of gymnastics

here's an example we have this beam and we have somebody who's doing a cartwheel

or a flip on this being so it a here we also have the a

the bars where this person is probably going to do some flips up to here

more flips and then they land. These are just two examples of gymnastics

there are many different types hurdles

so hurdles are when somebody runs and there's an obstacle in the way it

usually looks like this and somebody has to jump over it run a little more jump

Jump, run, jump,run, jump

we also use the word hurdles not only when we're talking about the Olympics

but we use it as a synonym for obstacles

so for example i faced many hurdles in my life

so this is a way this is not only Olympic vocabulary

the next part is full so this is actually my favorite Olympic sport

just because I i I've seen people do it it's just it's such an interesting one

for me or you have a long stick and you run with the stick you shove a stick

into the ground and you flip over a very high bar

so if i can choose any Olympic sport to compete and it would be pulled

next we have relay

so this is where you have a team of runners and each one has something

called a baton

so its bigger than this but they hold it behind her back

sorry they hold it behind the bag was sort of awkward to do and somebody comes

running

I hand some the baton and then they run with a baton and then they run it to the

next person who runs with a baton so it's a type of race where you have

multiple people in the race on your team

finally we have the discus throw the discus this is a circular shaped object

and its its throne

so it's very heavy object that's that's thrown so of course there are many more

olympic sports on this list this is just some of the common summer olympic sports

we have an events so i hope that you found this video interesting and

hopefully you have learned some vocabulary from it

I hope you're watching the upcoming Olympics so if you would like to

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got him in a full understanding of these words so until next time take care