TV commercial:
Pick them right up Sochi 2014, P&G Thank you, Mom
Discuss
- Children under the eighteen should be banned from competing in the Olympics®.
- To be a sports star these days, you need to start training when you are at primary school.
- Behind every successful sports star there is ruthless parent.
Language corner
- If you are ambitious, you want to achieve something - maybe to be famous or rich or to get a particular job.
- If you are determined, you will not allow anything to stop you doing what you want to do or getting what you want to get.
- If you are ruthless, you are determined, but you also do not mind hurting other people or causing problems for them in order to get what you want.
- Sport in Depth If a TV programme, magazine article, etc. is called ...in depth, it suggests that the topic (eg sport) will be looked at in a lot of detail.
- If you follow in someone's footsteps, you have a similar life, do the same job or follow the same career as that person.
- At the time she was an exception, but now it seems to be the rule. The rule here is what usually happens.
- If someone pushes you to your limits, they make you work as hard as you possibly can and do the best that you possibly can do.
See what has become of 8 Olympic® host cities after the Games left town.
*Article:
What Happens to Olympic® Venues after the Games?
*Online debate
Is the Olympic® dream dead?
Language corner: verbs with two objects
Verbs with two objects are usually to do with:
a) transfer: giving passing, sending, receiving things
give, pass, send, lend, post, take, get
b) communication: of information of ideas
tell, show, explain, refuse, write, teach
c) benefit: doing an action to help another person / group
buy, pay, read, built, sing, book make, paint
More information on the topic in the following link: Verbs with two objects
Further listening practice
What are your best qualities?
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