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The Olympics is one of the world's biggest sporting events. This lesson will teach you key Olympic vocabulary that will help you talk about the Olympics with your friends. It will also help you to understand sports news.

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hi there my name is Emma thank you for clicking 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 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 blog 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 handsome 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 practice some of those big vocabulary and i invite you to come visit our site at www.petland.com we have a quiz there where you can definitely see if you've got him in a full understanding of these words so until next time take care.