📙 Part 2: Describe a popular place for doing sports

This episode's vocabulary

Community center (noun) - a place where people who live in an area can meet each other and play sports, take classes, etc.

Work out (phrasal verb) - to exercise in order to improve the strength or appearance of your body.

Picturesque (adj.) - (especially of a place) attractive in appearance, especially in an old-fashioned way.

Fitness (noun) - activities relating to keeping healthy and strong, especially through exercise.

Treadmill (noun) - an exercise machine that consists of a moving strip or two step-like parts on which you walk without moving forward.

Climbing wall (noun) - an artificial wall with places to put your hands and feet, used for practicing the sport of climbing.

Hall (noun) - a building or large room used for events involving a lot of people.

Pitch (noun) - an area painted with lines for playing particular sports, especially soccer.

Court (noun) - an area drawn out on the ground that is used for playing sports such as tennis and basketball.

Warm-up (noun) - something that you do to prepare yourself for an activity, especially gentle exercises before a physical activity.

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Questions and Answers

M: Could you start speaking now, please?

R: There's a huge community center in the village where I live. And I go there three times a week to work out, it's pretty good. Oh, in greater detail about the location, the place was built, well, rather recently, now I think about it. Based on the design compared to the high school it's attached to, if the front of the village is next to the river, then the community center is at the back of the village, next to the feet of the hills and mountains. It's actually rather picturesque in the summer, although you don't pay much attention to it in the winter, since the weather is very very cold. Well, with regards to when I'm there, I typically go around three times a week, there's a fitness room at the back of the center. And that overlooks the playing fields. And the room itself is pretty well equipped with benches and treadmills, and different machines. Haven't been to these other places yet. But apparently, there's a climbing wall for people who are into that sort of thing. And a hall for doing yoga in too. Oh, yeah, in terms of what I do there, it's just the... It's just the fitness room really. So going on the treadmill or the spin machines, followed by the chest press, or leg extension and curl machines, and lateral pull-down and pull-up machines too. Oh, along with the free weights. There are big windows there. So you can see people playing football or rugby on the pitches. And I think that tennis sometimes happens on the courts that are nearby too. Sometimes the karate guys joke around the courts or the pitches, but I think that's just part of their warm-up. They don't really use the pitches for different things. When it comes to my personal feelings about it. While I'm quite grateful it's there. I would appreciate it having more free weights, though, I suppose since it's part of a school complex, that could be a bit risky. Still better to have something than nothing at all.

M: What about your friends? Do they also enjoy the place?

R: The ones I've spoken to have said that they really like it.

M: Thank you, Rory, for your answer!

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