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Thom
English / Unit 6: Sports | Reading: The Olympics then and now
by Thom on March 28, 2022
149 Words / 1 Recordings / 3 Comments
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Please make two separate recordings - the first with your natural speed and the second with your slow one - so that my students are able to imitate your pronunciation. Thank you!

Unit 6: Sports | Reading: The Olympics then and now

OLYMPICS TIMELINE
1896: The first modern Olympic Games were in Greece. There were silver medals for winners and bronze medals for second place. There weren’t any gold medals.
1916: In 1916, 1940 and 1944, there weren’t any games because of war.
1920: There wasn’t an Olympic flag until 1920. The flag of every country in the world has got one of the five Olympic colours in it.
1936: Twelve-year-old swimmer Inge Sorensen from Denmark was the youngest medallist in Olympic history.
1960: Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia was the first African to win a gold medal after running a marathon without shoes.
2016: There were two new events in Rio in 2016 – golf and rugby were the first new events in nearly 100 years.
2020: In 2020, there was a global problem and they moved the games to 2021.

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  • Unit 6: Sports | Reading: The Olympics then and now ( recorded by jokeeffe ), American (Northeast)

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Thom
Thom
April 5, 2022

Thanks a lot for yoyr kind help.

Thom
Thom
April 5, 2022

Thanks a lot for your kind help.

jokeeffe
jokeeffe
April 5, 2022

Thanks Thom. I didn't want to mention it in the recording and mess up your lesson, but just wanted to point out that your 2016 item about golf and rugby being the first new events in nearly 100 years is not correct -- new events are added pretty often, like table tennis, volleyball, triathlon, softball, judo, handball, basketball, and others. All of these have been added over the past hundred years.

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