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Hello English learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco

and I’m Erica

and today we’re swimming

That’s right, a nice summertime lesson

summertime lesson

So we’re going to be talking about swimming and well it’s a very popular sport. Right?

Yeah so this is another lesson in our sports series

In our sports series, okay. So why don’t we preview some of the language we’ll find in the dialogue

vocabulary preview

all right we have two words to look at here uh the first word is sailing

Sailing

Sailing

Sailing

Well this is the verb to sail, right

ohm

So sailing is traveling in a boat.

In a boat with no engine

Right so you must use the wind to push you forward

Exactly that’s a sailboat

Yes

Okay so sailing

ohm

Now let’s take a look at our other word anchor

Another boat word here

yeah

Anchor

anchor

anchor

Now it’s spelled a-n-c-h-o-r

Right

But you don’t pronounce the c-h as you normally would right

Another one of these really difficult uh to spell English words

Right so you don’t say eng chor you would say anchor

anchor

anchor

anchor

So the anchor is a verb and a noun

that’s right well when anchor is used as a noun it means the hook that you throw over the boat into the water and it keeps you staying in the same place.

Okay but the verb to anchor

Yes

What does it mean?

To do that

To do that. Right. So you so to throw the anchor into the water you would just say to anchor the boat.

Exactly to keep it in the same place

Okay great words related to sailing but now let’s listen to our dialogue for the first time what’s, what’s happening here Erica.

We’ve got two friends here who are sailing in their boat and they decide to take a swim

ohm, let’s see what happens

This is such a beautiful day! Great day for sailing!

It sure is! The water looks so nice! Anchor the boat for a little while. I’m going to take a dip.

Why are you doggy-paddling? I taught you how to swim! Do your breast stroke!

I get too tired! I’ll just backstroke, it’s easier!

Try kicking your legs more. That’s good. Don’t go out too far!

It’s fine! Jump in!

Kathy! Get back here! I see a shark!

Ahhhh! Help me! Help! Bring the boat closer!

The shark is coming straight towards me!

It’s right under you! Kathy!!!!!

Alright so a shark attack

I know this is my worst fear when swimming

Really in the in the ocean right

Yeah, well also in the lake but

ha-ha, no sharks in lakes

I know but I’m still afraid of them

Alright so don’t worry about it. I’m sure the girl is okay. Uh it’s probably not a shark maybe it was a dolphin

Yeah or maybe she’s goanna punch the shark in the face and she’ll, she’ll escape.

Okay let’s take a look at some of the words that we saw in language takeaway

language takeaway

we have three excellent swimming words for you. The first one is doggy paddling

Doggy paddling

Doggy paddling

So doggy paddling it’s not really a proper way of swimming right.

No you don’t see this in the Olympics.

So if you’ve ever seen a dog swim

ohm

that’s why they call it doggy paddling

Right you’re sort of moving your hands quickly in front of you.

ohm and your legs are all over the place

Yeah

and you’re basically not really swimming. you’re just trying to stay afloat

yes

you’re trying not to drown

Trying not to sink

Yeah

Yep

Okay so doggy paddling

Again this can be a noun or a verb. The doggy paddle

ohm.

This swimming style or doggy paddling the verb.

Okay interesting all right let’s take a look at our second uh swimming style

Breast stroke

Breast stroke

Breast stroke

The breaststroke

it’s like

how is this one?

Well it’s sort of like swimming like a frog

So you have your legs that are similar to like a frog

yeah

Right and what are your hands doing

Um your hands are moving in front of you together

ohm

then out towards the side

Okay

so

You’re kind of doing like circles

Yeah half circles

Half circles

ohm

Okay breaststroke

Yeah but you get kind of tired when you swim like this right

Yeah maybe yeah

Ohm

yeah

Now let’s take a look at our third word backstroke

Backstroke

Backstroke

Backstroke

So this one’s pretty easy Backstroke you are

Lying on your back

You’re lying on your back

In the water

And you’re king your feet as well

Yep

But what are your hands doing?

They’re going back behind you see I’m doing it now

Alright if you guys could be here in the studio you would see Erica doing her backstroke.

yeah I’m pretty good at it.

Okay so let’s listen to this dialogue again and then we’ll come back and look at some great phrases

This is such a beautiful day! Great day for sailing!

It sure is! The water looks so nice! Anchor the boat for a little while. I’m going to take a dip.

Why are you doggy-paddling? I taught you how to swim! Do your breast stroke!

I get too tired! I’ll just backstroke, it’s easier!

Try kicking your legs more. That’s good. Don’t go out too far!

It’s fine! Jump in!

Kathy! Get back here! I see a shark!

Ahhhh! Help me! Help! Bring the boat closer! The shark is coming straight towards me!

It’s right under you! Kathy!!!!!

Okay so we have some really good phrases related to swimming and water.

Yep

Okay let’s take a look at these in fluency builder

fluency builder

all right the first one I love this phrase um take a dip

Take a dip

Take a dip

So if I say I’m going to take a dip

You’re going to have a quick swim

A quick swim

Yep

So you can take a dip in the pool

Yeah

In the lake

In the ocean

The Ocean even you’re in your bathtub right

No

No?

No it’s just for swimming unless your bathtub is really really really big

Alright so not for the bathtub but for swimming

Yep

Okay now let’s take a look at our second phrase. For a little while

For a little while

For a little while

For a little while

This is really common I use this a lot

Yeah me too I probably use it 500 times a day

Okay so let’s listen to some examples with for a little while and then we’ll come back and explain it.

Example one: I’m tired, I’m just going to sit down for a little while.

Example two:

It will only hurt for a little while

Example three:

Do you want to play tennis for a little while?

so it means for a short time

For a short time and you can change it right you can say oh I’m going to play for a little while

Yeah or I’m going to sleep for a little while

Aha, for a short time

Yep alright so if learners use this phrase um I find it sounds really really great because it’s not something that students normally use.

Yeah I guess a student wouldn’t really use this phrase normally

Yeah so guys use it because you’ll sound awesome

Yeah you’ll sound really really fluent, okay and let’s take a look at our last phrase straight towards

Straight towards

Straight towards me

Straight towards

Okay so straight means directly

Right in a line

In line not going anywhere else but directly

Yeah not moving side to side

And towards is in that direction

ohm

So the shark was coming straight towards me it’s coming directly at me

Moving in a line and not moving side to side

Okay so can you give me another example of how you would use straight towards.

Watch out there’s a car coming straight towards you

Okay directly towards you

Yeah or maybe um when I get home from work I go straight towards the fridge

Really

Yes

I believe this, all right so straight towards directly okay so we’ve looked at a lot of great words really good phrases let’s listen to this dialogue one last time and then we’ll come back and Erica is goanna tell us a really great story about own.

This is such a beautiful day! Great day for sailing!

It sure is! The water looks so nice! Anchor the boat for a little while. I’m going to take a dip.

Why are you doggy-paddling? I taught you how to swim! Do your breast stroke!

I get too tired! I’ll just backstroke, it’s easier!

Try kicking your legs more. That’s good. Don’t go out too far!

It’s fine! Jump in!

Kathy! Get back here! I see a shark!

Ahhhh! Help me! Help! Bring the boat closer!

The shark is coming straight towards me!

It’s right under you! Kathy!!!!!

alright well Marco I was telling you um that I used to spend every summer on the lake

ohm

um and my family had a really small house on a small island

ohm

and my cousins had another small house on another small island

okay

So our families are really close and we used to go to one house for dinner one night and the other house to dinner

ohm

The next night so everyone was over at my cousin’s house except for my grandfather

ohm

Um and so he was thinking okay, its late maybe I better go pick up my wife and see what’s going on. so he goes into the boat. It’s dark

Okay

There’s no light on the boat

ohm

He’s driving straight towards the island when suddenly my, my cousin in his boat drives directly into my grandfather

so they crashed.

they crashed.

Two boats crashed into the lake.

Yeah and then my, my grandfather’s boat flipped over it turned upside down

Wow

And he fell in the water

But he was okay right

Yeah he was okay but um you know what he was really angry about this

And the boat?

The boat stayed in the water and you know the the engine fell down to the bottom. So we had to go the next morning to get the boat and we actually had to um hire some scuba divers to go to the bottom of the lake to get the engine.

Wow

Yeah

Yeah I imagine your grandpa was pretty angry

Yeah he tells the story um

every year

Exactly um but you know what I’ve got a million of these crazy lake stories because my family

It always happens

Yeah um yeah

All right guys well do you have any crazy stories or any stories related to boats or to swimming or to shark attacks.

Or shark attacks

Yeah. Uh so come to our website englishpod.com leave your story share with us and also if you have any doubts or questions Erica and I are always there to answer.

Well we’re out of time for this lesson but um until next time

Good bye

Bye.