Making Old Sports New (1)

New ways to play your favorite games

Basketball, baseball and soccer are classic sports that people will always enjoy. And yet we keep changing popular games like these in new ways to keep them fresh.

Underwater hockey 
This game is played in swimming pools with two teams of six players. Each player has flippers, a snorkel and a stick used for hitting a puck. Each team earns points by hitting the puck into its underwater goal.

Other team members must be ready to take the puck when a team member goes up for air. That makes underwater hockey a true team sport.

Chessboxing
A sport can also be revised by mixing it with another game. In chessboxing, two players compete on the chess board and in the ring. First, their minds are tested in a game of chess. Then they use their strength in a round of boxing. They repeat this for 11 round. The winner beats the loser in chess, knocks him out while boxing or gets more boxing points.


Info Cloud
Teaching Topic: How to Cheer on a Team

This month's sports feature gives us a good excuse to discuss how to cheer on a sports team.

Knowing how to cheer a team on to victory in English isn't as easy as it might be in certain other languages.
The reason is the cheer depends on who it is exactly you want to cheer for.

That's right!
You can cheer the whole team on or just the team's offense or just the defense or you can cheer on an individual player.

Or if you and your friends feel like it, you can cheer against the other team.
But again, each cheer would be different, depending on who you're cheering for.

Also, the cheer you use will depend on which sport is being played.

If we use basketball as an example, a good cheer to use at the game would be, "Defense! Defense!"
But that's not something you hear at a baseball game.

OK.
Here is a good all purpose cheer you can use in any sport including under water hockey and chess boxing.
Insert the team's name or player's name between the phrases, "let's go."
The cheer will sound something like this, "Let's go, Ken, let's go! Let's go, Ken, let's go!"

OK.
Got it.

Language Lab
popular adj.受歡迎的、廣受大眾喜愛的
liked by a lot of people
- The Eiffel Tower is one of the most popular sites in Europe.
艾菲爾鐵塔是歐洲最受歡迎的景點之一
unpopular adj.不受歡迎的
not liked by most people
- Such an attitude made him unpopular in the company.
這種態度讓他在公司裡不受歡迎

underwater adj.水中的、水面下的
below the surface of an area of water, or able to be used there:
- The underwater lights make the fountain shine at night.
水中的照明燈讓這個噴水池在夜裡閃閃發亮
- Underwater aerobics is great for expecting moms because it's mild yet burns a lot of calories.
水中有氧舞蹈非常適合孕婦，因為既溫和又可消耗許多卡路里

revise v. 修改、修正；調整
to change something because of new information or ideas;
to change a piece of writing by adding new information, making improvements, or correcting mistakes
- Teresa spent a lot of time revising her English report.
Teresa花了許多時間，修改她的報告。
- After comparing themselves with their competitors, the company revised their prices.
經過與競爭者的比較後，公司決定要調整他們的價格。

compete v.競爭 competition n.
to try to gain something and stop someone else from having it or having as much of it
compete against
- Our team will compete against last year's state champion tonight.
我們的隊伍今天晚上要和去年的州冠軍決勝負
- The fierce competition attracted a large audience.
激烈的競爭，吸引了許多的觀眾


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