Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Airistotle Repeats As World Air Guitar Champion





Audio Time: 30 secs

Level: pre-intermediate and up

Vocabulary:  To help learners fully understand the audio and transcript, most vocabulary that might be unknown for this lesson’s level is provided. Vocab in bold is more useful for learners at the lesson’s target level. Try to choose 8 to 10 new words to learn from the story (in general, it’s best to try to learn no more than 8-10 new words a day).

Definitions are written with the help of various sources including  Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary

Airistotle: A funny combination of the words “air” and “Aristotle”, the name of one of the most famous ancient Greek philosophers.

Air guitar: A form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary guitar.

Championship: an important competition that decides which player or team is the best in a particular sport, game, etc.

To survive: to remain alive : to continue to live.

Reigning Champion: the most recent winner of a competition.

Champ: Champion: The winner of a competition.

Otherwise: in a different way or manner.

To defend: to fight or work hard in order to keep (something, such as a right, interest, cause, etc.) from being taken away.

Title: the status or position of being the champion in a sport or other competition.

Thrash out: to produce (something, such as an agreement or plan) by a lot of discussion; in this text: to play a type of loud and fast music.

Punk: a kind of loud and intense rock music that was most popular from the late 1970s to the early 1980s — often used before another noun.

Performance: an activity (such as singing a song or acting in a play) that a person or group does to entertain an audience.

Stellar: very good; excellent.

Marks: a number or letter that indicates how a student has performed in a class or on a test : grade.

Watch Airistotle thrash it out here: 



Discussion questions:
1. Do you like doing funny things like playing air guitar?
2. Have you ever been in a championship for something like a sport or another game?
3. If you participated in the air guitar championship, what song would you “play”?