American football is a very different game. The players can run with the ball, touch and push each other:
Football, rugby and hockey have an umpire, but tennis, cricket and baseball have a referee:
Golf was probably invented in Holland but has played in Scotland for at least 400 years:
Illness and disease are often used in the same way, but diesease is used for a serious condition caused by an infection:
In most sports, there is also a cup competition, which is usually a knock-in competition:
Many idioms in the English language have come form the world of sports, for example to play the game means to be fair, and that's not cricket" means that's not fair:
Olympic motto is "Faster, Higher, and Better":
People may register with any GP they choose. as long as the GP is willing to register them:
Some regattas on the river Tweed have been social events for well over a hundred years, and today's best rowers have had international successes:
Sports help people keep in good health:
The doctor may give you a prescription (a piece of paper with an order for some medicine) that you get from the butcher's:
The headquartes of the Internationsl Olympics Committee are in Lausanne, Switzerland:
The National Health Service was established in the USA in 1948 to provide free medical treatment both in hospital and outside:
The Olympic symbol is five interlocking circules coloured brown, yellow, black, green and red on a white background, representing the five continents:
The players need the girls' cheers - they help them:
We used hurt for some things; but ache is more common to describe real pain, and it can be used with or without a direct object:
Wound and injury are both used to describe damage to the body, but a wound is generally caused by a weapon (e.g. gun or knife) and it is usually intentional: