Band 9 IELTS Sports Related Vocabulary
About the video
In the video you will learn how to build upon your lexical resources in an effective and productive manner. Touching upon the derivation or origin of a word, which is known as the etymology of a word. Video entails how learning one word root can help predict and recall the meaning of several other terms.
To commence with, we deconstruct the word ‘Sports’ itself by learning the part of speech it hails from, the meaning, the etymology and its appropriate usage in a sentence. Then moving further, we learn other terms that have the same root word which are
- sportscast
- sportsperson
- sportswear
- sportswriter
- sport complex
Then we deconstruct the term ‘Athletic’ and learn it’s derived terms
- athletics
- athlete
- athleticism
- unathletic
- athleticness
After that the video entails some miscellaneous lexical terminologies such as
- pitch
- strenuous
- aerobic
- memorabilia
- boot camp
- amphitheatre
- umpire
- trophies
Furthermore, the video elaborates on some key terms that could be deployed while tending to questions or speech regarding sports.
Furthermore, the learnt vocabulary is then used to answer a few sample questions asked in the IELTS speaking test.