English learners, welcome back（在后） to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today we have another great elementary（基本的） lesson for you all. That's right. We've got a lesson for all you sports fans out there.

  Right. We're doing a podcast on sports today. We're starting off with basketball. Uh-huh. So we've got lots of language about basketball and sports in this lesson today. Great.

  So let's take a look at our vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. Two words for you today. The first one is fowl（家禽）. Fowl. Fowl.

  A fowl. Basically（基本上） it's an action in a game that is not allowed. Right. So if you're playing basketball and you kick（ 踢） the other player, that's a foul（ 犯规）. That's a foul. That's a pretty big foul.

  Yeah. If you're playing soccer and you pick up the ball. That's also a foul. Huh? Our second word is ref. Ref.

  R-E-F. Also known as a referee（仲裁人）. Mm-hmm. Right. So a referee is basically like the judge（法官） of a game, the judge of the game. So he's the one that will say that was a foul.

  That was a foul. Exactly. Ref. Also known as referee. Okay（好）. So two great words.

  We're going to hear them in our dialogue and we're going to be listening to two guys who are watching a basketball game on TV. Hey, has the game started yet? Yeah. About five minutes ago. But who's winning? Bulls（公牛）, of course.

  What? That wasn't a foul. Oh, come on, ref. Don't worry. Shaq always screws（拧紧） up free throws. You were right.

  He didn't make the shot（发射）. Yeah, that was a great shot. Three pointer. Yeah. Did you see that? He traveled to the ref.

  Didn't even call us. Ref needs glasses. Hey ref, open your eyes. Can't believe you didn't see that. Okay. End of the first quarter.

  All right. I'm gonna make a beer run. All right. A really common situation whenever（无论何时） you're watching games with friends, right? You need to get a beer. We'll talk about that in a little while（一段时间）.

  Let's take a look at language takeaway（外卖食品）. Language takeaway. Okay. Let's take a look at our first word on language takeaway. Free throw. Free throw.

  Free throw. Free throw. This one's a bit hard to say, isn't it? It's a little bit hard to explain, but if you're playing basketball and if someone fouls you, you get a free throw. So that's when all the players line（排成一行） up around you and you can throw the ball to the basket（篮） without anyone blocking（堵塞） you or right.