• Vocabulary … [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [vid] ⇔ [vidquiz]⇐
A-K ⇐… Sports illustrated …⇒ L-Z
∞ Guessing Game⇐[pairwork sports worksheet]
¤ Extreme sports⇐
Sports classified as extreme are always changing. People who enjoy these sports (usually young and fearless!) tend to consider themselves part of a subculture, and they might refer to them simply as «action sports».
The X-Games are the Olympics of extreme sports! They are held twice a year in the summer and winter: the best athletes from around the world are invited to compete and try to outdo each other with the biggest, highest, fastest, most difficult tricks. A trick is a stunt, an action like a jump, a flip, or a spin. Competitors are give a score for their tricks by a panel of judges. They compete to win medals (gold, silver, and bronze), AND a lot of money! They also try to impress the fans with never-before-seen tricks.
• ‘ PLAY’ – ‘DO’ – ‘GO’ [collocations] … Quizzes ⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐
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| Go skiing | Do karate | Play tennis |
There are three verbs that collocate with sports and other free time activities: go, do and play, but they are not interchangeable:
- Go is used with activities and sports that end in -ing. The verb go here implies that we go somewhere to practice this sport: go swimming.
- Do is used with recreational activities and with individual, non-team sports or sports in which a ball is not used, like martial arts, for example: do a crossword puzzle, do athletics, do karate.
- Play is generally used with team sports and those sports that need a ball or similar object (puck, disc, shuttlecock…). Also, those activities in which two people or teams compete against each other: play football, play poker, play chess.
| Go | Do | Play |
| riding | aerobics | badminton |
| jogging | gymnastics | table-tennis |
| hitch-hiking | taekwondo | football |
| fishing | judo | basketball |
| sailing | karate | chess |
| windsurfing | kung-fu | cricket |
| skiing | ballet | board games |
| snowboarding | excercise | snooker |
| swimming | yoga | hockey |
| dancing | athletics | baseball |
| skating | archery | rugby |
| cycling | a crossword puzzle | volleyball |
| running | tai chi | squash |
NOTICE: We use ‘do’ in informal English to talk about activities that take a certain time, or are repeated (like jobs and hobbies). In the same way we ‘do’ collocates with 
household chores (‘do the cleaning/washing-up /shopping…’) we can use ‘do’ with most -ing forms; only, we replace the definite article with other quantifiers:
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•→ Idioms [Sports – Games – Athletics] ⇐
Φ ‘Punching Bag’ [a 2012 tune by Josh Turner] ⇓
• Glossaries . . .
• Hiking & Trekking . . .
• Pictionary: ⇒camping⇐
WALK_DON’T RUN …
⇒[01]⇐ / ⇒[02]⇐ / ⇒[03]⇐ / ⇒[04]⇐ / ⇒[05]⇐
Ways of walking ⇒
♣ Mind your step!
⇒[quiz 01] ⇔ [quiz 02] ⇔ [quiz 03]⇐
¤ Swimming ⇓
•→ Swimming idioms + exercises⇐
≈ The swimming song by Earl Scruggs ↓ [animated run & walk cycles]
This summer I went swimming – This summer I might have drowned
But I held my breath, I kicked my feet – Moved my arms around – I moved my arms around
This summer I swam in the ocean and I swam in a swimming pool
Salt my wounds, chlorined my eyes I’m a self-destructive fool – Self-destructive fool
This summer I did the back stroke and you know that that’s not all
I did the breast stroke, the butterfly and the old Australian crawl – The old Australian crawl
This summer I swam in a public place and a reservoir to boot
At the latter I was informal, at the former I wore my suit – I wore my swimming suit
Oh, this summer I did swan dives and jack-knives for you all
And once when you weren’t looking I did a cannon-ball – I did a cannon-ball
This summer I went swimming – This summer I might have drowned
But I held my breath, I kicked my feet and moved my arms around – I moved my arms around
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¤ Olympics _ London, 2012
¶ «You Can’t Have It _. . . And that is that_»
I still can’t believe it – they didn’t let Usain Bolt keep the relay as a souvenir just after winning his umpteenth medal at 2012 London Olympics and breaking the world record for the 400m relay! I mean, he did earn the yellow dildo, didn’t he?
Besides mean and miserable, the gesture suggests a very un-British short-sighted view on business: a worthless gadget is offered the chance of multiplying its value by millions, and somebody simply says ‘no’.
You’re making History, Mr Bolt; the British gesture, we´ll forget.
¤ Olympics _ Munich, 1972
The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the first in Germany since the 1936 Games in Nazi Berlin, are today remembered primarily for its «Munich Massacre.» Black September, a Palestinian terrorist organization, took eleven athletes and coaches from the Israeli team (along with a West German police officer) hostage, all of whom were eventually murdered, most during an unsuccessful rescue attempt.
Visions of Eight (1973) is an excellent record of the 1972 Munich Olympics, a collage imaginatively recording the event from varied perspectives, each with a different focus. Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world – Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch and John Schlesinger.– each contribute a segment averaging about 10 minutes in length. For instance, Forman focused on the comic aspect of the games; Lelouch kept his sights on the losers rather than the winners; and Mai Zetterling examined obsession in the form of weightlifting. The movie does not attempt to comprehensively document the ’72 Olympics and does not aim for a unified vision. Instead, it showcases the talents of these directors under the inspiration of this most dramatic of gatherings.
• Olympia ⇓ [Leni Riefenstahl_1938]
Jesse Owens won four gold medals . . .
«Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.»
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