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BBC Learning English 

Words in the News   

14th March 2012 

Packing a punch 

Transcript: 

Sadaf Rahimi practising her punches in the ring. The teenager is dreaming 

of representing Afghanistan in the first ever women's boxing tournament  

at the Olympics.   

The seventeen-year-old has no opponents she can fight at home, so has 

travelled to Wales to practise.   

She usually trains at a stadium once used for public executions.   

The athlete  wants to show that women in Afghanistan can reach the top . 

Vocabulary: 

tournament  

competition  

opponents 

people to compete against 

stadium 

sports arena 

athlete 

person taking part in sport 

reach the top 

achieve success  

Watch this video online:  Packing a punch        

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases be low to complete each of these 

sentences from BBC news reports.   

Note that you may have to change th e form of a word  to complete the 

sentence correctly. 

tournament / opponents / stadium / athlete / reach the top 

1. The runners will set off in waves alongside a number of former Olympic 

and Paralympic athletes, who will also be making history by being among 

the first to cross th e __________ finish line.   

2. Bath-based members of the British  Olympic swimming team will also be 

using the facilities to train,  as will __________ from Malaysia. 

3. The Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has become the latest player 

to pull out of the tennis at Indian We lls in the US because of a stomach 

bug that is threatening to overshadow the whole _____________.   

4. While he is "tagging" his ____________,  the raider has to hold his 

breath and chant "kabaddi, kabaddi". 

5. Many young athletes who compet ed at the complex went on to 

________________ of their games, including former Wimbledon 

champion Lleyton Hewitt, China's NBA  star Yao Ming, and US soccer star 

Freddie Adu. 

Answers: 

1. The runners will set off in waves alongside a number of former Olympic 

and Paralympic athletes, who will also be making history by being among 

the first to cross the  stadium's finish line.   

2. Bath-based members of the British  Olympic swimming team will also be 

using the facilities to train, as will athletes from Malaysia. 

Source :  London 2012: China's Olympic Swimmers to train in Bath

3. The Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has become the latest player 

to pull out of the tennis at Indian We lls in the US because of a stomach 

bug that is threatening to overshadow the whole  tournament .   

Source : Mystery stomach bug threatens tennis tournament 

4. While he is "tagging" his  opponents , the raider has to hold his breath 

and chant "kabaddi, kabaddi". 

Source :    Indian women win first Kabaddi World Cup championship

5. Many young athletes who competed at the complex went on to reach 

the top of their games, including form er Wimbledon champion Lleyton 

Hewitt, China's NBA star Yao Ming, and US soccer star Freddie Adu. 

Source: Building a complex sporting legacy