{"id":1981,"date":"2025-05-29T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2025-05-29T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:11:54","slug":"english-pod-33-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"English Pod 33 &#8211; Foul!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/3530aada-ae6a-4621-b7e8-728d406b71b9?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A: Has the game started yet?<br>B: Yeah, about 5 minutes ago.<br><br>A: Whos winning?<br>B: The Bulls, of course!<br><br>A: What! That wasnt a <strong>foul<\/strong>! C\u2019mon, <strong>ref<\/strong>!<br>B: Don\u2019t worry, Shaq always <strong>screws up free throws<\/strong>.<br><br>A: You were right! He didn\u2019t make the shot!<br>B: That was a great shot! A <strong>three pointe<\/strong>r, yeah!<br><br>A: Did you see that? He <strong>traveled<\/strong> and the ref didn\u2019t call it!<br>B: This ref needs glasses. Hey ref, open your eyes! I can\u2019t believe he didn\u2019t see that!<br><br>A: Okay\u2026 end of the first quarter\u2026 Alright, I\u2019m gonna make a <strong>beer run.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/api.frdic.com\/api\/v3\/media\/mp3\/5af4bce6-1e6f-11e7-be40-000c29ffef9b?type=mp3&amp;cdn=auto\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Vocabulary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>foul  <\/strong>\u2014\u2014 noun, sin\u0002gular an act in sports that is against the rules<br><strong>referee<\/strong>\u2014\u2014 noun, sin\u0002gular \u2014 person who makes sure that players act accord\u0002 ing to the rules in a game or sport (infor\u0002mal)<br><strong>screw up<\/strong> \u2014\u2014 verb \u2014 make a mistake<br><strong>free throw<\/strong> \u7f5a\u7403 \u2014 noun, plu\u0002ral \u2014 a chance to shoot the ball due to a foul made by the opponent<br><strong>make the shot <\/strong>\u2014\u2014 verb \u2014 successfully throw aball toward a goal(sports)<br><strong>three pointer<\/strong> \u2014\u2014 noun, sin\u0002gular \u2014 a shot that scores three points in a game<br><strong>travel<\/strong>  verb \u2014 take more steps with the basketball than the rule allows<br><strong>beer run<\/strong>  \u2014\u2014  noun, nonvariable \u2014 the act of quickly going to get beer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>make the shot.<\/strong><br>Voice: Example one.<br>A: I can\u2019t believe it. He made the shot from the other side of the court.<br>Voice: Example two.<br>B: There\u2018s no way he\u2019s going to make that shot. He\u2019s way too far away from the net.<br>Voice: Example three.<br>C: If Gretzky makes the shot, they\u2019e gonna with the Stanley Cup<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>screw up<\/strong><br>Voice: Example one.<br>A: Jill, you really screwed up this time, you\u2019re fired.<br>Voice: Example two.<br>B: This game is important. If you screw it up, we\u2019r e out of the finals.<br>Voice: Example three.<br>C: I\u2019m sorry, I know I screwed up. Will you forgive me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dialogue A: Has the game started yet?B: Yeah, about 5 minutes ago. A: Whos winning?B: The Bulls, of course! A: What! That wasnt a foul! C\u2019mon, ref!B: Don\u2019t worry, Shaq always screws up free throws. A: You were right! He didn\u2019t make the shot!B: That was a great shot! A three pointer, yeah! A: Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,33,29],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-english","tag-english-pod","tag-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rainyjames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}