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M: Hello everyone welcome back to English pod, my name is Marco.

E: and I’m Erica.

M: and today we’re gonna be bringing you another great sports lesson.

E: yes this one is for all our hockey fans.

M: I know we have a lot of listeners from Russia so this is a very popular sport in Russia Czech Republic.

E: yes, so Canada.

M: and Canada right? very very popular in Canada.

E: it’s our national game.

M: well I guess because you guys have so much ice.

E; I know there’s nothing else to do.

M: skiing and hockey. all right so it’s gonna be a really fun lesson we’re gonna have a lot of great vocabularies so before we start in the dialogue let’s take a look at vocabulary preview

vocabulary preview.

E: well we have three words for you now.

E: the first one really simple puck.

M: puck.

E: puck.

M: puck .

E: puck. Puck.

M: so it’s almost like duck but with the P.

E: yes.

M: and this is actually kind of like the ball that you use in hockey.

E: but it’s not a ball.

M: but it’s not a ball, it’s flat.

E: it’s flat and round.

M: and round. so it looks like a disc.

E: mm-hmm.

M: kind of like a mini frisbee.

E: yes.

M: and this is what the players do, this is what they..

E: they chase this around.

M: They chase it yeah .

E: yeah.

M: so in basketball you have a ball and talker you have a ball, in hockey you have a puck.

E: yeah.

M: okay. our next word…

E: key game.

M: a key game.

E: a key game.

M: so this word key.

E: important.

M: it means important.

E: really important

M: really important.

E: yeah.

M: so I can say a key game is a really important game.

E: exactly, you could also maybe say a key player.

M: key player is a really important player

E: or even a key goal.

M: key goal okay so let’s take a look at our last word now finals.

E: finals.

M: finals.

E: the finals.

M: so the finals are the last games.

E: that’s right and the winner of the finals wins the championship.

M: okay for example in the World Cup in soccer,

E: mm-hmm.

M: there’s only one game played in the finals so after everyone gets eliminated there’s one game where the winner is the champion.

E: Yes

M: okay so now we’re ready to listen to our dialogue and it’s gonna be a little bit faster than usual.

E: hmm.

M: because it’s a sports commentator.

E: and it’s exciting.

M: and it’s exciting.

E: yeah.

M: there’s a lot of action so don’t worry about it listen to it and then we’ll come back and talk about some of the vocabulary.

A: Hello everyone! I’m Rick Fields, and here with me is Bob Copeland.

B: Howdy folks, and welcome to today’s game! You know, Rick, today is a key game between Russia and Canada. As you know, the winner will move on to the finals.

A: That’s right, and it looks like we’re just about ready to start the match. The ref is calling the players for the face-off… and here we go! The Russians win possession and immediately set up their attack!

Federov gets checked hard into the boards!

B: Maurice Richard has the puck now, and passes it to the center. He shoots! Wow what a save by the goalie!

A: Alright, the puck is back in play now. Pavel Bure is on a breakaway! He is flying down the ice! The defenders can’t keep up! Slap shot! He scores

B: What an amazing goal!

M: all right, so the Canadiens versus the Russians huh?

E: it reminds me of a classic, classic game.

M: exactly the classic match.

E: yep.

M: so let’s take a look at some of the vocabulary that we heard in the dialogue in language takeaway.

language takeaway

E: we have five phrases in language takeaway today and the first one is face off.

M: face off.

E: face off.

M: face off.

E: so Marco a face off here is a noun right?

M: it’s a noun exactly and it’s, so in the beginning of a match the two players will stand face to face.

E: yes.

M: right? that’s why it’s called kind of a face-off.

E: mm-hmm.

M: and the referee will drop the puck.

E: yes.

M: and they’ll try to get it.

E: exactly so that’s the face off.

M: that’s the face-off.

E: yeah.

M: okay let’s take a look at our next word check.

E: check.

M: to check.

E: to check, so an interesting verb here hey?

M: yeah it’s really interesting because it’s different from the way that you would say check or revise right?

E: yes, yeah.

M: this is actually kind of a violent move.

E: yeah, so what do you do?

M: so basically in hockey you take your body and you hit another person with it.

E: okay, so to check someone is to hit them with your body.

M: with your body right, you can’t use your arms or your legs or your hands you can only hit them like with your shoulder or your. your hip

E: yeah.

M: the hip check.

E: okay.

M: so, yeah. it’s very cool.

E: all right.

M: our next word goalie.

E: goalie.

M: goalie.

E: goalie.

M: goalie is a person.

E: right.

M: and probably the bravest…

E: yeah.

M:of hockey match.

E: no kidding.

M: so why don’t you tell us what the goalie does?

E: the goalie prevents the puck from coming in the net.

M: from going into the gold right?

E: yeah, so the goalie stops the other team from getting a goal.

M: a goal.

E: yeah.

M: okay, so the goalie prevents the goals all right very interesting.

M: now our fourth word is related to goalie.

E: yes.

M: save.

E: save.

M: save.

E: a save.

M: a save.

E: yeah it’s a noun.

M: it’s a noun here so the goalie makes saves.

E: that’s right when he stops a goal, he makes a save.

M: makes a save.

E; yeah.

M: right?

E: yeah.

M: okay we have some examples so we can understand this form of using save.

E: yes.

Example one.

that was an unbelievable save.

Example two.

the goalie didn’t make the save.

Example three.

what a save, the Russians win.

E: yeah a little bit unusual here that save is a noun instead of a verb but I think those examples were helpful.

M: mm-hmm.

M: now let’s take a look at our last word breakaway.

E: breakaway

M: breakaway

E: a breakaway.

M: okay, so you have two words there that we know already break,

E: yes.

M: right and away.

E: yeah.

M: so what are these two words together actually mean?

E: well imagine a group of hockey players all fighting to get the puck right? and then one player breaks off, breaks out of the group. yeah, yeah and he’s he skates down the ice and he has the puck and he’s far away from the other player.

M: right, right so he’s going away from the other players by himself.

E: yep.

M: okay so break away.

E: mm-hmm

M: all right, so we’ve looked at a lot of hockey language here.

E: yep.

M: and I think it’s time now to listen to our dialogue again this time we’re gonna slow it down a little bit.

E: yeah I think this will help you to understand these words a little bit better.

A: Hello everyone! I’m Rick Fields, and here with me is Bob Copeland.

B: Howdy folks, and welcome to today’s game! You know, Rick, today is a key game between Russia and Canada. As you know, the winner will move on to the finals.

A: That’s right, and it looks like we’re just about ready to start the match. The ref is calling the players for the face-off… and here we go! The Russians win possession and immediately set up their attack!

Federov gets checked hard into the boards!

B: Maurice Richard has the puck now, and passes it to the center. He shoots! Wow what a save by the goalie!

A: Alright, the puck is back in play now. Pavel Bure is on a breakaway! He is flying down the ice! The defenders can’t keep up! Slap shot! He scores

B: What an amazing goal!

M: okay this dialogue is interesting because we have commentators narrating or describing what’s happening.

E: yeah.

M: in that moment right?

E: yeah and they’re using some interesting grammar aren’t they?

M: exactly they are. because some actions are happening in that moment but we noticed something a little bit strange.

E: all right, well let’s look at grammar breakdown.

Grammar breakdown.

M: okay let’s listen to this sentence that we previously heard in the dialogue.

Maurice Richard has the puck now and passes it to the center, he shoots.

Maurice Richard has the puck now and passes it to the center, he shoots.

E: I noticed that he’s using the present simple right?

M: yeah.

E: yeah even though the action is now, it’s in present simple.

M: yes even though the action is happening in that moment he’s not using the present progressive.

E: yeah.

M: as in continuous.

E: yeah.

M: this is because if you notice the actions are very very brief.

E: and fast.

M: and fast.

E: and exciting.

M: exactly, so you don’t really have enough time to say for example, he is shooting.

E: yes.

M: because it’s only one quick action he shoots the puck very fast right?

E: humm

M: or for example you wouldn’t really say he is passing.

E: yeah.

M: he is passing the puck.

E: right,

M: it’s just one quick action he takes it and passes it and the action is finished.

E: yes, I think we can see a few more examples of this, let’s listen again.

The Russians win possession and immediately set up their attack.

The Russians win possession and immediately set up their attack.

E: here we can hear that he is using the present simple again because these are very short actions that finish quickly right?

M: exactly.

E: and it’s actually very very common when you’re describing something you see

M: mm-hmm.

E: that’s happening now, that’s really exciting it’s common to use present simple.

M: exactly if you pay attention most sporting events are in the same way.

E: yep, yeah.

M: they would describe the actions that are happening in the present simple.

E: yeah.

M: not the present progressive.

E: yeah, but Marco you have an example of of some present progressive here right?

M: yes, let’s listen to this sentence.

He is flying down the ice.

He is flying down the ice.

M: now we heard the sentence he is flying down the ice.

E: hmm.

M: right? now this one isn’t progressive.

E: yeah. why is that?

M: well first of all when we say he’s flying down the ice is not that he’s literally flying.

E: no he’s not an airplane.

M: he’s just skating really fast.

E: yep.

M: right? so we kind of exaggerate and we say oh he’s flying down the ice but he’s actually skating so this is a progressive action.

E: so

M: he’s doing it.

E: it’s happening for more than one second.

M: yeah,

E: yeah.

M: exactly so that’s why we would say he is flying down the ice instead of he flies down the ice.

E: yes.

M: right?

E: yeah.

M: unless it was like really really really fast.

E: yeah

M: okay.

E: okay so here we see that sometimes in English we do use present simple to talk about what’s happening now right?

M: humm

E: when it happens really really quickly.

M: mm-hmm

E: or when we want to show that it’s really exciting.

M: exactly.

E: yep.

M: makes it much more exciting. if we just use the present simple.

E: yeah.

M: okay let’s listen to this exciting dialogue one more time and we’ll come back and talk a little bit more.

A: Hello everyone! I’m Rick Fields, and here with me is Bob Copeland.

B: Howdy folks, and welcome to today’s game! You know, Rick, today is a key game between Russia and Canada. As you know, the winner will move on to the finals.

A: That’s right, and it looks like we’re just about ready to start the match. The ref is calling the players for the face-off… and here we go! The Russians win possession and immediately set up their attack!

Federol gets checked hard into the boards!

B: Maurice Richard has the puck now, and passes it to the center. He shoots! Wow what a save by the goalie!

A: Alright, the puck is back in play now. Pavel Bure is on a breakaway! He is flying down the ice! The defenders can’t keep up! Slap shot! He scores

B: What an amazing goal!

M: alright so hockey is the Canadian national sport.

E: well actually it isn’t the national sport

M: what is it?

E: lacrosse.

M: Lacrosse?

E: yeah but anyway we’re not, we don’t have a lesson about lacrosse today.

M: not yet.

E: no but actually all Canadians love hockey , like we start playing hockey when we’re about 2 years old.

M: yeah I’ve heard that.

E: yeah.

M: I’ve heard that some Canadian children learn how to skate before they learn how to walk.

E: it’s totally common.

M: well it is a great sport, very very exciting, it’s very fast-paced.

E: mm-hmm.

M: and it’s very aggressive that’s what I like about it.

E: I know.

M: not violent but very aggressive.

E: yeah, but you know what I must tell you that I am not a good Canadian.

M: you’re not a hockey fan?

E: no I’m really.

M: really?

E: yeah I really I really hate hockey.

M: why?

E: Um, you know what the puck is so small it’s hard to see where it’s on the ice I’m gonna cold and these guys are fighting and anyway.

M: have you ever been to a hockey game?

E: yeah, um many times and I just find that the puck is really small.

M: maybe you just need better since.

E: maybe .

M: well what do you guys think about Hock? we’ll post some some videos and some pictures of hockey on on the comments section so you can more or less see a little bit more about this really interesting sport and tell us what you think about it?

E: yeah, so visit our websites englishpod.cam and you’ll find some interesting stuff about hockey right?

M: exactly.

E: and also lots of other great lessons.

M: exactly and also if you have any questions or doubts about the list you can leave your questions on the site.

E: mm-hmm.

M: all right, we’re out of time we’ll see you guys next time.

E: thanks for listening and good bye.

M: bye