Les jeux olympiques d’hiver de 2010
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Mrs Moorhouse in Français, Languages
The gripping events in Vancouver over the past couple of weeks have kept us glued to our television screens but we can take more from this than pure entertainment.
Today, Mr Jackson’s Year 9 French class were busy building a vocab list of sports – many of them asking what ski cross is in French (it is of course le ski cross). So here is a vocab list for winter olympic sports to wow your teachers with when you do your next piece of homework on sport.
Le ski alpin – Alpine Skiing
Le combiné – Combined
La descente – Downhill
Le slalom géant – Giant Slalom
Le slalom – Slalom
Le Super-G – Super-G
Le biathlon – Biathlon
Le bobsleigh – Bobsleigh
Le ski de fond – Cross Country Skiing
Le curling – Curling
Le patinage artistique – Figure Skating
Le ski acrobatique – Freestyle Skiing
Les sauts – Aerials
Les bosses – Moguls
Le ski cross – Ski Cross
Le hockey sur glace – Ice Hockey
La luge – Luge
Le combiné nordique – Nordic Combined
Le short track – Short Track Skating
Le skeleton – Skeleton
Le saut à skis – Ski jumping
Le snowboard – Snowboarding
Le patinage de vitesse – Speed skating
All pictures courtesy of BBC Sport.
