【英语趣味课堂】落网球-Net Ball

Dai: So Naomi, you’re from Wales 1 and you’re eleven. So what does an eleven-year old girl do for fun in Wales?
Naomi: I do music. I play the piano and the violin and I play sports: netball.
 
Dai: Net ball? What’s that?
 
Naomi: Yeah, it’s like a basketball a bit, but mostly girls play it. You have to...you have two teams and you have to try and get the ball in each others’ nets.
 
Dai: Oh OK, so it’s just like basketball. You bounce 2 it around and...
 
Naomi: Well, you don’t really bounce it that much. You can only bounce it once.
 
Dai: Oh really?
 
Naomi: Yeah.
 
Dai: Oh OK, I see. And you play it indoors 3 then or...?
 
Naomi: Yeah mostly indoors - in the summer sometimes outdoors.
 
Dai: Oh OK, sounds good. Yeah so, you can only bounce it once?
 
Naomi: Yeah, there’s three different passes you can do. One is you use a bounce called “bounce pass” and you can only use a bounce once.
 
Dai: OK, to pass it to your teammate 4.
 
Naomi: Yeah.
 
Dai: OK, and what are the other passes?
 
Naomi: There’s “chest 5 pass”.
 
Dai: And what’s that?
 
Naomi: It’s just a straight pass from your chest to the other person’s chest.
 
Dai: Oh OK.
 
Naomi: And “shoulder pass” which is sort of a lob.
 
Dai: Like a lob, you throw it over your shoulder kind of thing. And so, it’s just...well like basketball somebody throws it in the net and how many points do you get?
 
Naomi: It’s one point for every net - every ball that you get in the net.
 
Dai: Oh OK. and how long is a game of netball?
 
Naomi: Probably about an hour.
 
Dai: Oh really? So like half an hour each side or...?
 
Naomi: Yeah, I think so.
 
Dai: OK, and how many people are there on a team?
 
Naomi: Seven.
 
Dai: Seven?
 
Naomi: Yeah.
 
Dai: OK, nice.
 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
mostly
 
Mostly girls play net ball.
 
The word 'mostly' is similar in meaning to 'almost all'.  Notice the following:
 
Football is mostly a man's sport.
That restaurant serves mostly chicken.
each other
 
You try and get the ball in each other's nets.
 
Here, we use the phrase 6 'each other' to talk about two teams. Notice the following:
 
The two teams do not like each other.
We gave each other present for the holidays.
bounce
 
You bounce the ball around.
 
When we drop a ball it bounces 7 back up.  Notice the following:
 
You must bounce the ball in basketball.
The ball took a big bounce after I dropped it.
pass
 
There's three different passes you can do in net ball.
 
To pass means 8 to quickly give something to someone.  In sports we pass to our teammates.  Notice the following:
 
She passed the ball to her teammate.
The most difficult pass in netball is the shoulder pass.
lob
 
The shoulder pass is sort of a lob.
 
The word 'lob' means to slowly throw something, usually a ball.  Notice the following:
 
We lobbed the ball to the baby.
When I get home I always lob my keys onto the table.