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Swimming

Swimming. BY Christine Hsieh. Outline. Do you know? Starting Questions Conversation Practice: Let’s Go Swimming Useful Expression Discussion Question . What are they doing? Tell me if you can identify any of the following pictures. Starting Questions: .

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Swimming

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  1. Swimming BY Christine Hsieh

  2. Outline • Do you know? • Starting Questions • Conversation Practice: Let’s Go Swimming • Useful Expression • Discussion Question

  3. What are they doing? Tell me if you can identify any of the following pictures.

  4. Starting Questions: • Which of the following are you good at? • Do you like swimming? Why or Why not? • What do you need when swimming?

  5. breaststroke  backstroke Freestyle butterfly 1. Which of the following are you good at?Do you like swimming? Why or Why not?

  6. 2. What do you need when swimming? • bathing suit • sunblock • goggles • earplugs • Others? To practice swimming, a float.

  7. Conversation Practice: Let’s Go Swimming • A: I got a flier saying that a swimming pool provides discount, and I am planning to go with Tom. Would you want to come down with us? • B: I don't think so. I hate swimming • A: Come on, it‘ll be fun. No one hates swimming. • B: I do. • A: Why? • B: I got plummy, my skin got tanned, and I have to take the risk of being drowned. • A: You don't know how to swim? • B: I can do a little breaststroke. • A: That would be enough, you don't really have to swim. You can just relax in the water, and ... • B: Prepare to drown. • A: Look the bright side, there’s always a lifeguard by a swimming pool. • B: Yeh and everyone would stare at me when the lifeguard yells "hang in there, I am coming"?  Ain't it funny? • A: But it's better for you to learn how to swim. • B: That's true. • A: Of course, and grabbing a tan is good too. You can apply the sunblock to avoid sunburn. • B: Alright, I will think about it anyway, thanks for asking.

  8. Useful VocabulariesTry to use those words in your conversation with the tutor • bathing suit-- 游泳衣 • plummy -- 手起皺紋 • sunblock -- 防曬油 • grab a tan -- 去曬太陽 • freestyle -- 自由式 • breaststroke -- 蛙式 • backstroke -- 仰式 • butterfly -- 蝶式 • flyer -- 廣告傳單 • hang in there --  撐著點,不要放棄/堅持下去  • lockers -- 置物櫃 • lifeguard -- 救生員 • goggles -- 蛙鏡 • earplugs - -耳塞

  9. Discussion Questions • What are the advantages of swimming as an exercise? • e.g. low impact – the water supports our weight; we can exercise without adding stress to our joints. • e.g. muscle training and fat burning. • e.g. a cool thing to do in summer. • What are the safety issues in swimming? • at a pool: e.g. watch for the depth marker on the side of the pool, be careful with the slippery floor. • at the sea: don’t swim beyond the security line, face the tide to avoid being caught by it off guard.

  10. Reference • “Swimming” from BBC-Health http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/fitness/active_swim.shtml

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