Learn American idioms related to “sports”. Topic: Sports-related expressions in American English. Level: advanced.
Every year sports fans in America – каждый год спортивные фанаты в Америке wait for the biggest football game of the season, - ждут самую большую игру сезона в футбол The Super Bowl – суперкубок.
This game is always on a Sunday, - эта игра всегда проходит в воскресенье, so we call this - поэтому мы называем ее Super Bowl Sunday –воскресный суперкубок.
Today is Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 3, 2008), - сегодня воскресный суперкубок and I thought – и я думаю, it would be a good time – что это было бы хорошее время to share with you – для того, чтобы поделиться с вами some expressions connected to sports – некоторыми выражениями, относящимися к спорту.
I found it interesting – я нахожу интересным, that there are a lot of expressions – что есть много выражений in everyday English - в повседневном английском языке that come from sports - что пришли из спорта .
I’m going to share three of them – я собираюсь поделиться с тремя из них with you today – с вами сегодня.
The first expression is – первое выражение:
“kick off – удар по мячу"
Kick off is the beginning of game.
One player kicks the ball, and the playing begins. We often ask “when is kick off time?” That means when does the game start? And in fact kick off time is any second now.
The players are going to the field, and soon one player will kick that ball, and the Super Bowl will begin. But what does kick off mean in every day English? Let’s start with the first meaning:
Note that when it takes an object this phrasal verb (kick off) can be separated. We can say; kick off the new year right, or you can kick the new year off right.
So note it can be transitive or intransitive, meaning we can use with an object or without. Here’s second meaning (kick-off),
In business, kick-off meetings are very common.
This year, two teams playing for Super Bowl are New England Patriots and New York Giants. Well, kick off was around 6:30 (PM). We’re now in the third quarter. The New England Patriots are leading.
Now to win a game like a football, which is a team sport, you can’t just have one player that’s very good. All the players have to work together.
So we have this expression: “team player.” I think it’s obvious what that means in sports. But, how do we use this expression in everyday English?
People on their job interviews and their resumes love to mention this as a quality that they have. They can say on a good team player.
All right, now it’s the fourth quarter and there’s less than 2 minutes to go.
I’m sure one of the teams is going to call a
“time out.”
I think you know that in sports a time out is a short rest for the players. They stop playing and the coaches usually give instructions. But, what is the time out for other settings? Let’s look at this first meaning:
Now I don’t know about other cultures, but it’s quite common in American families for parents to give children time outs. I know I do.
And the second example,
Now let’s look at this meaning:
- To go, “To here or to go?”
How many years do you need to finish your study? Yeah, only one semester to go.
- Settings, situation, circumstance, environment
Is he working good?Well, he might be good on his previous job, but he seems having hard time in our settings.
Well, it’s end of the game and the end of our lesson. The new Super Bowl Champions are the New York Giants. I hope you enjoyed the lesson, thanks for watching!
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