Hello, English learners.
Welcome back to EnglishPod.
My name is Marco.
And I'm Erica.
And today we're bringing you another part of our sports series.
And today we're going to be talking about volleyball.
That's right.
And we're going all the way to New Zealand to visit the Men's Volleyball Championships.
So we 're going to be looking at some great words and phrases related to volleyball
and also how to describe a sporting event.
So before we start on the dialogue, let's take a look at two words on vocabulary preview.
Vocabulary preview.
All right, we're going to hear both of these words in the dialogue.
Now, the first one, encounter.
Encounter.
An exciting encounter.
All right, so if we have an exciting encounter, it means we have an exciting.
Meeting of two people or two teams or two groups.
If I say I had an incredible encounter last night with my best friend.
You met up with your best friend and something happened.