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 Pretty3
 
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							| Hi,   Please help me and tell me  the difference between athletics and gymnastics ??         Thanks a lot in advance |  1 Oct 2012      
					
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 ascincoquinas
 
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							| Hi Pretty!
        
        
 take a look at the definition: ath‧let‧ics [uncountable]1 British English sports such as running and jumping [= track and field American English]
 2 American English physical activities such as sports and exercise
 
 gym‧nas‧tics [uncountable]1 a sport involving physical exercises and movements that need skill, strength, and control, and that are often performed in competitions: a gymnastics display
 We don �t do gymnastics at school.
 2  mental/intellectual/moral gymnastics very clever thinking
 3  verbal/linguistic gymnastics using words in a very clever way
 �gymnastic adjective: The girls went through their gymnastic routine.
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 Minka
 
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 Sorry about the last one. It was stronger than me... |  1 Oct 2012     
					
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 silvanija
 
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							| Sorry, saving the forum  . The links were too long and everything got distorted. |  1 Oct 2012     
					
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 procei
 
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							| Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History
 
 I feel so sorry about a bad joke!
 
 Hi, Pretty
 
 I agree with ascincoquinas
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 douglas
 
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							| As an American: Athletics is a broad field of various sports performed inside and out--mostly track and field events--but some schools, for example, refer to their entire physical fitness programs as the athletics program.      Using this defintion, atheletics can mean "sports" or "physical fitness".     Gymnastics is is a much narrower field that takes place almost exclusively in a gym (gymnasium).  This discipline encompasses those areas such as bar work (parallel, uneven, etc), rings, matt (floor) exercises, balance beam, trampoline, etc.   Cheers, Douglas   PS-Minka, that wasn �t very nice. |  2 Oct 2012     
					
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 Nadyastudent
 
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							| Dear teachers,
        
        
 In a few days I am having my first ESL lesson with the students who learn computer programming. Do you happen to know some motivational video which I could introduce them before starting learning the language, smth that will spark them. Their level is pre-intermediate.  Your colleague, Nadia |  2 Oct 2012     
					
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