Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and fielding.

The offense attempts to score more runs than its opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate.

Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.


offense                counter-clockwise              series                  bases


______________ This is the term of the team attempting to score points.

______________ This refers to when something moves by making a left terns to make a circle.

______________ This is a group of events that it part of one larger unit.

______________ This is a bag that represents station on a baseball field.


Grammar point:

A blend, in morphology, is a word formed from parts of two or more words. In this sense blending is a process, among other processes, of creating new words.   Baseball is an example.

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. In many areas, one sport is generally referred to simply as hockey. Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland. In Inner Mongolia, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1,000 years. Today there is a professional league in the United States, it is called the NHL. Here in New York the professional team is called the New York Islanders. You my want to see a game.

maneuver              opponent             feature               professional



________________ This is when someone moves around moves an object around.

________________ This is someone of a group that you compete with.

________________ This is something that shows something.

________________ This is when you get payed to do something.


Grammar point:

In grammar, a sentence is the basic grammatical unit. It contains a group of words and expresses a complete thought.

A sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. For example in the sentence "Bill writes good poems" Bill is the subject of the sentence and writes good poems is the predicate.

American Football

Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. It is a game where players bolt down the field hoping to score points for their team. As this is happening the other team is attempting to hold up this process in attempts to gain points for there own team. This can cause violent collisions which can cause players' bodies to buckle. A game of football is a timed event with 4 quarters each lasting for 15 minutes. At the end of the 60 minutes of play the game is finished. But over the course of those 60 min both teams coaches overlook their teams to make sure that there are no oversights that may cause their team to lose that game.

American football is much like American language, since they both have contradictions. One example of these contradictions in the game of football is that it not really played with your feet, but more with your hands. This is like the English language because there are many words that also have contradictions in there different meanings. These words are called Contronyms, or words with contradictory meanings. Some of these terms are:

Bolt: To secure, or to flee

Buckle: To connect, or to break or collapse

Finished: Completed, or destroyed

Give out: To provide, or to stop because of a lack of supply

Hold up: To support, or to impede

Overlook: To supervise, or to neglect

Oversight: Monitoring, or failing to oversee

Vocabulary Exercise
Please circle the correct definition as used in the reading for each of the 6 vocabulary terms.

Bolt             To secure             OR              To Flee

Buckle          To connect           OR               To break or collapse

Finished       Completed           OR               destroyed

Give out        To Provide           OR              To stop because of a lack of
                                                                supply

Hold up         To Support           OR              To inpede

Overlook       To supervise        OR              To neglect

Oversight      Monitoring           OR              Failing to oversee

Grammer Point
A colon is used at the end of a clause that introduces a list, especially when the following or as follows is used.
There are many different types of marsupials found in Australia: kangaroos, wallabies, numbats, possums and so on.

For all of your new vocabulary please write one sentence showing each of the words meanings.