This week we learned the words, sorted them, presented them and saw then in action via video. Next week we'll do a formal sort, and have the test. Here they are to study, if you missed them!
Olympics - a global athletic contest
Alpine - a way to describe a high mountain area - like the Alps in Europe
hockey- a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each
Canada - a nation in Northern North America
skiing- the sport of gliding on skis
bobsled- long racing sled with two sets of runners, a steering wheel and a brake
bobsledding - a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
Nordic- of or relating to skiing events involving ski jumping and cross-country skiing
luge- a one- or two-person sled for coasting or racing down a chute
chute- a tube like slide
medal- a round metal award
skating -to glide over ice
freestyle- a competition in figure skating or skiing where any movement is allowed
ceremony- a serious formal event
torch- a stick of fire carried in the hand
snowboard- a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski
curling- a game played on ice in which two teams of four players each compete in sliding large stones toward a mark in the center of a circle
Vancouver- the city in British Columbia, Canada, where the Olympics is being held
venue- a place where a sporting event occurs
relay- a race involving the cooperation of many people
athlete- a person trained or gifted in sports
skeleton- also known as tobogganing. is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down
biathlon- a contest in which cross-country skiers, carrying rifles, shoot at targets at four stops
schuss - to ski down hill really fast
schuss bomb - to crash on skis, while skiing down hill really fast
avalanche - a destructive snow slide that starts high on a mountain and rushes down-slope at speeds of up to seventy MPH
