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Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1: Test Yourself
- dead time
- The period when a game stops is called dead time.
- inspector of turns
- Water polo requires a lot of stamina.
- Each lane has its inspector of turns.
- The egg-beater is used to get higher above the water.
- medley swimming
- windmill motion
- flip turn
- He wet passed the ball into the hole.
- Water polo is a very demanding sport.
- propulsion
- endurance
- stamina
- Sometimes players wear a mouth-guard.
- Swimmers move through water by means of self-propulsion.
- A pass through the air is called the dry pass.
- It is better to swim underwater in high surf.
- A swim-cap reduces drag.
- mouth-guard
- Endurance is important in swimming.
- pump fake
- dry pass
- He pump faked the goalie and scored.
- The backstroke style resembles a windmill motion.
- crash back
- egg-beater
- In a medley competition swimmers use all swimming styles.
- heat
- judge of stroke
- Swimmers practise in drag suits to swim faster.
- demanding
- high surf
- drag suit
- hole
- The space in front of the goal is called a hole.
- chlorine
- drag
- The flip turn is the most effective type of turn.
- Field players crashed back when under attack.
- The judge of stroke observes the style of contestants.
- wet pass
- A swimming competition is also called a meet.
- Goggles protect you from chlorine.
- When the ball bounces off the crossbar the shot clock is reset.
- bounce off
- You have to get to the buoy and back.
- meet
- A heat is a group of people starting at the same time.
- buoy
Grammar Practice
Exercise 1: Substitution
- She told me to wait for her because she wanted to show me something.
- She said she would see me at the meeting.
- She said I had to come to see her flat sometime.
- She said she had recently been to northern Pakistan.
- She said I was not to tell her friends.
- She told me to hurry up because our bus was coming.
Exercise 3: Substitution
- She said he would be pleased if I visited him.
- She said I would not become good swimmer, if I didn't practise every day.
- She said that if I had swum faster, I would have won the meet.
- She said she would see me competing, if she had time.
- She said that if I hadn't forgotten about her match, I would have seen her win.
- She said that if she saw him, she would tell him I was looking for him.
Exercise 4: Substitution
- Jill suggested having a coffee in McDonald's.
- Kain claimed that the Earth revolved around the moon.
- Laura insisted on me coming to the party with her.
- Mia decided to go to Rome this weekend.
- Nick refused to swim today because he felt tired.
- Omar suggested switching the goalie or we would loose the match.