Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast number 1090, Child Sports Injuries.
This is English as a Second Language podcast episode 1090.
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On this episode we're going to listen to Angela and Juan talk about children who get hurt playing sports.
Let's get started.
Wait, I need to put sunscreen on Davey before he goes to the game.
It's not sunny today.
He doesn't need sunscreen.
And here are four water bottles to make sure he stays hydrated and doesn't get heat stroke.
One of the other parents is bringing drinks for the kids.
It's fine.
We don't need that.
Make sure Davey warms up and cools down before and after the game.
I don't want him to strain or spring anything.
The coach makes sure they do that.
Are you done?
And here's a first aid kit in case he skins his knee or gets any other scrapes.
We don't want to risk infection.
The reason we signed up Davey for organized sports is that all of this is taken care of.
There's even a certified athletic trainer at each game, one of the parents.
But the other kids can be so rough.
He comes home with bruises all the time.
I can't stand seeing him hurt.
Do you want to come to the game?
You can see for yourself that everything is fine.
How can I watch Davey running into danger?
I'd want to run onto the field and save him.
You're right.
It's better that you stay here.
If you did that, your son would never live it down.
Angela begins our dialogue by saying wait, I need to put sunscreen on Davey before he goes to the game.
Davey, we learn, is a child.
Angela wants to put sunscreen, S-U-N-S-C-R-E-E-N, on him.
Sunscreen is a cream or a liquid that you put on your skin to prevent getting sunburned.
To prevent sunburn the redness of your skin that is caused by too much sun.
People like me who come from a northern European climate originally my ancestors anyway have to be very careful about sunscreen because I, like many of my fellow Irishmen, often get sunburned when we go out and stay in the sun too long.
Juan says, however, it's not sunny today.
He doesn't need sunscreen.
Juan says, the sun isn't even shining today.
You don't have to worry about that.
Angela however continues, and here are four water bottles to make sure he stays hydrated and doesn't get heat stroke.
To be hydrated, H-Y-D-R-A-T-E-D, means to have enough water so that you don't get sick.
Heat stroke S-T-R-O-K-E is a dangerous medical condition caused by the human body getting too hot, and that can happen if you are out in the sun and if you're not drinking water.
At least that's what Angela thinks.
Juan says, one of the other parents is bringing drinks for the kids.
In other words, Davey doesn't need to bring his own water.
One of the other parents will bring water.
Angela says, make sure Davey warms up and cools down before... and after the game.
What Angela means here is that she wants Devi to warm up before the game and cool down after the game.
To warm up.
Here refers to gradually increasing your physical activity before exercising or playing some sort of sport.
Many athletes, people who play sports, warm up before the main activity or the main thing they're doing in their exercising or in their sporting activity.
To cool down is to gradually decrease your physical activity when you have finished exercising or playing a sport.
Angela explains, I don't want him to strain or sprain anything.
To strain S-T-R-A-I-N means to stretch a muscle so far that you hurt it.
You might actually even tear T-E-A-R the muscle, which is basically ripping the muscle or causing the muscle to break in some way.
To sprain, S-P-R-A-I-N, means to stretch not a muscle but what's called a ligament muscle.
A ligament, L-I-G-A-M-E-N-T, is a tissue, a part of your body that connects bones.
Juan says the coach makes sure they do that.
The coach C-O-A-C-H is the person whose job it is to help an athlete or a team perform well and ultimately, to win the game that the team or the person is playing.
I can never hear the word coach without thinking of my father.
The reason is this.
My father was a gym teacher, a physical education teacher.
He was the teacher in school that taught the kids games and helped them participate in sporting events.
Well, he taught in a somewhat small school, a special school, and he was known by all of the children and the adults in the school simply as Coach.
That's what they called him.
They didn't say Mr. McQuillan.
They said Coach.
I remember as a child going to his school with him one day and hearing the teachers address him or talk to him with the name Coach.
Hey, Coach, how's it going today?
How you doing, Coach?
I thought, why are they calling my father Coach?
But that's what they called him for the 34 years that he taught in the St.
Paul Public Schools.
But back to our story.
Juan says to Angela, are you done?
Meaning, have you finished giving me things and instructing me?
He wants to get going to take Davey to his game.
Angela, however, is not finished.
She says, and here's a first aid kit in case he skins his knee or gets any other scrapes.
We don't want to risk infection.
A first aid kit is a small box that has basic medical supplies in it.
It's something that you would have at a sporting event or a game like this, in case you needed to take care of any small medical issues.
One of the things that might happen in a sporting game would be skinning your knee.
To skin S-K-I-N.
Your knee K-N-E-E is to cause the skin around or near your knee to break and to bleed B-L-E-E-D.
To bleed is to allow blood or to have blood come out of your body.
Angela is worried that little Davey is going to skin his knee or get another kind of scrape S-C-R-A-P-E.
A scrape is also an injury to your skin.
We might also call it a cut or a scratch that is caused by having the skin rub up against or touch a sharp surface or object.
Angela says, we don't want to risk infection.
To risk something is to take the chance that something bad will happen.
The bad thing in this case is an infection, I-N-F-E-C-T-I-O-N.
An infection is when there is something in your body that is causing you pain or making you ill.
Juan says.
Juan is saying to Angela that they signed Davey up, meaning they agreed to have Davey participate in this activity.
Because all of this is taken care of, meaning all of these problems that Angela is worried about will be taken care of by the organization that is running this particular sporting activity.
Organized sports refers to activities, Athletic activity usually involving teams, that is coordinated and organized by some organization, some group of people.
Juan says, A certified athletic trainer T-R-A-I-N-E-R would be someone who has some medical knowledge or qualifications that would be sufficient to take care of minor injuries and problems that might happen to one of the players in the game.
Angela is not convinced.
She says, but the other kids can be so rough.
To be rough.
R-O-U-G-H means to, in this case, play a physical activity or participate in a physical activity that might cause someone to get hurt.
Really, it means to play in such a way or in such a manner that would result in someone getting hurt.
It can cause people to get injured or hurt, even killed sometimes.
Angela continues, he comes home with bruises all the time.
I can't stand seeing him hurt.
Bruises B-R-U-I-S-E-S are temporary discolored areas on your skin, usually circles of purple or dark green, that are caused by someone hitting you himself or someone getting hit, more likely, by another person.
If, for example, I take my hand and close it up into a ball called a fist and hit you hard, it might cause a bruise.
Later on, your skin may turn a different color, a dark color.
Angela is complaining that Davy often comes home from these games with bruises.
Juan says do you want to come to the game?
You can see for yourself that everything is fine.
Angela says how can I watch Davy running into danger?
I'd want to run out onto the field and save him.
Angela says she can't go to the game and watch Davy because if she did she would go out and try to protect her son during the game.
Juan then says, you're right.
It's better that you stay here.
If you did that, meaning if you went to the game and tried to protect Davy, your son will never live it down.
To live L-I-V-E something down means to have something embarrassing happen to you and then try to continue on with your normal life when you hope other people have finally forgotten about this embarrassing moment that you had.
Usually when we use this expression, it's with the word never.
I will never live that down.
That means that you did something embarrassing or something embarrassing happened to you that everyone will always remember.
No one will forget.
Now, of course, most people do forget, and we usually worry about our embarrassing moments more than we should.
What Juan means here in the dialogue is that if Angela Davy's mother would go to a game and do what she said she might do, which is run out onto the playing field to protect her son, her son would never live that down.
Her son would always be embarrassed by what his mother had done.
Now let's listen to the dialogue, this time at a normal speed.
Wait!
I need to put sunscreen on Davey before he goes to the game.
It's not sunny today.
He doesn't need sunscreen.
And here are four water bottles to make sure he stays hydrated and doesn't get heat stroke.
One of the other parents is bringing drinks for the kids.
It's fine.
We don't need that.
Make sure Davey warms up and cools down before and after the game.
I don't want him to strain or sprain anything.
The coach makes sure they do that.
Are you done?
And here's a first aid kit, in case he skins his knee or gets any other scrapes.
We don't want to risk infection.
The reason we signed up Davey for organized sports is that all of this is taken care of.
There's even a certified athletic trainer at each game, one of the parents.
But the other kids can be so rough.
He comes home with bruises all the time.
I can't stand seeing him hurt.
Do you want to come to the game?
You can see for yourself that everything is fine.
How can I watch Davey running into danger?
I'd want to run onto the field and save him.
You're right.
It's better that you stay here.
If you did that, your son would never live it down.
Thanks as always to our wonderful script writer, Dr. Lucy Say.
From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.
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