Swimming

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Swimming
BY Christine Hsieh
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Outline

• Do you know?
• Starting Questions
• Conversation Practice Lets Go Swimming
• Useful Expression
• Discussion Question

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

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

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1. Which of the following are you good at?Do you
like swimming? Why or Why not?

• Freestyle
• butterfly

• breaststroke
•  backstroke

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2. What do you need when swimming?

• bathing suit
• sunblock
• goggles
• earplugs
• Others? To practice swimming, a float.

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Conversation Practice Lets 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, itll 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, theres 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.

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Useful VocabulariesTry to use those words in
your conversation with the tutor

• bathing suit-- ???
• plummy -- ????
• sunblock -- ???
• grab a tan -- ????
• freestyle -- ???
• breaststroke -- ??
•  backstroke -- ??
•  butterfly -- ??
•  flyer -- ????
•  hang in there --  ???,????/???? 
•  lockers -- ???
•  lifeguard -- ???
•  goggles -- ??
•  earplugs - -??

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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 dont swim beyond the security line,
  face the tide to avoid being caught by it off
  guard.

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Reference

• Swimming from BBC-Health http//www.bbc.co.uk/he
  alth/healthy_living/fitness/active_swim.shtml