Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
It has been a wild two weeks at the 2010 Winter Olympics for Ebaby! But Jason still has not done what he came to Vancouver to do. Time has almost run out for him to win a gold medal and save his friends.
But Jason won’t give up. He’s as dedicated as any Olympic athlete. He travels to an ice skating rink with the awesome pair of skates he found last week, ready to challenge the first person he meets to a speed skating competition. He’s so eager to compete for the gold, he has to be careful not to jump the gun.
This is Jason’s last chance to save his friends. Find out if he can become the first beginner speed skater in history to win an Olympic gold medal!
3. Watch - Watch the video without reading the dialog.
English, baby! English Lesson Video
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jason: Welcome to English, baby! I’m Jason, here at the ice rink at Robson Square at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. We’re gonna learn today about the phrase “jump the gun.” If you’re a speed skater, you have to start after the signal to start. Otherwise, you’re disqualified. You jumped the gun. So, I seem to have jumped the gun here. I’ve got my ice skates on even though I’m not on the ice rink. If you jump the gun, you do something before you’re supposed to. So, let’s fix this situation and get on the ice.
Jason: Will you race me?
Competitor: Sure.
Jason: Can we race? Alright.
Jason: What’s your name?
Austin: Austin.
Jason: Austin. Alright. Austin and I are gonna race.
Jason: One, two…
Jason: False start. I didn’t…I didn’t really beat you. I only false started.
Jason: Austin is the winner! I false started. I jumped the gun. If you start too soon, you lose the race.
Jason: English, baby!
Jason: Are you from Canada?
Austin: Yeah.
Jason: Alright. Good job, man. Canada wins the gold in speed skating. English, baby! has to try another day.
Jason: Man, I came all the way to the Olympics, it’s almost over, and I can’t believe I didn’t come away with a gold medal.
Jason: Yeah? For me? Oh, wow!
Audience: Yeah!
Jason: Oh, wow. This nice Canadian woman just gave me a medal. What’s your name?
Suzy: Suzy.
Jason: Suzy, what’s my medal for?
Suzy: Skating.
Jason: Skating?
Suzy: Yeah.
Jason: I got it for skating after all! I got a gold medal! Thank you!
Suzy: Canada!
Jason: So, as soon as I got the gold medal, I came right back to the bowling alley to save my friends. And there was their kidnapper, waiting for me. I did it! I did it. I went to the Olympics and I brought back a gold medal. Now give me my friends back!
Kidnapper: Let me see this.
Jason: As soon as I presented the gold medal, the kidnapper realized it was fake and snapped it in half. But all of the experience I gained at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics was too intimidating, and the kidnapper left, and I set my friends free. Everything I learned turned out to be as good as gold .
Jason: Yeah.
Jason: Now get out of here! Because everything I learned at the Olympics was as good as gold!
Grammar Point
Go Super to learn "Simple Future Tense" from this lesson 
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Discussion
The Winter Olympics have ended, and Jason is ready to come home. But he would be jumping the gun if he left Vancouver without a gold medal.
When you jump the gun, you do something before you’re supposed to. In speed skating, the gun is the signal that the athletes can begin skating. If they start before the signal, they jump the gun. A speed skater can get disqualified if he jumps the gun in a race.
Jason jumps the gun and loses his race against Austin. Fortunately, Canadians are a very friendly bunch. A nice woman named Suzy gives Jason a gold medal just for trying. Jason goes right to the bowling alley to save his friends. The medal turns out to be fake, but Jason is still able to save the day. His experiences in Vancouver were as good as gold, even if the medal wasn’t.
Have you ever jumped the gun? What experiences have you had that were as good as gold?
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ha,it seems so interesting.how i wish i could go there to feel the atmosphere of being a champin |
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I want to jump the gun |
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Yes I have jumped the gun sometimes. For example, when me and my group in music lessons, are practising to play together, it happens that I begin to play first, so it's to jump the gun. I think knowledge are good as gold. If you know more and understand various things better, it's just good as gold. I can four languages, which I of course improve, so that I can speak better and understand it much more. That's a experience I have and don't tell me it's not good as gold. |
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Well I do that sometimes not a lot lol! Some day I practiced on my guitar playing with some other classmates and then I did jumped the gun, I began to early They are many lol |
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thanks for these Vancouver Olympics lessons, I have learned alot about the Winter game from them |
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