Advice for Learning English

Part 1. Events
- Many events are obvious. Basketeball is basketball and swimming is swimming! But some English words can be hard to understand. For example:
- Running and throwing are NOT called running and throwing! Instead, they are called "track and field".
- A decathlon is an event which includes ten different events, such as running, jumping, and throwing.
- Gymnastics is done on a long bar (the balance beam), or using two bars side by side (parallel bars), or on rings.
- Equestrian events are anything involving horses.

Part 2. Venues (locations of events)
- Arena is a general name for a place where sports take place.
- A stadium is a big, open-air arena with many seats. It usually has a grass field.
- A gymnasium is indoors and usually has fewer seats than a stadium.
- An aquatic center is a place for swimming and diving (jumping into water).
- A velodrome is made especially for bicycle racing.

Part 3. Ceremonies
- The Olympic Games always start with an Opening Ceremony where all participants enter the main stadium for the first time.
_ The Games always end with a Closing Ceremony which passes the torch onto the next host city.
- After the winners are determined for an event, there is a medal ceremony. The 3rd-place winner gets a bronze medal, the 2nd-place winner gets a silver medal, and the 1st-place winner gets a gold medal.