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 #2 (permalink) Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:42 am What is Ping pong? |
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Hi,
Yes, it is table tennis. I prefer 'bats' but apparently 'paddles' is all right!
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 19:11 pm Real life sports vocabulary |
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Hi.
My question is the first sentence in the "Real life sport vocabulary"
1."Ping-pong players hit the ball with..."
(a) paddles
(b) rackets
(c) bats
(d) clubs
Correct answer: (a) paddles
I choose C according to the definition of "ping-pong" in the Longman dictionary:"an indoor game played on a table by two people with a small plastic ball and two bats"
Please help me with this .
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 19:39 pm Re: Real life sports vocabulary |
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| ^^vangiang^^ wrote: |
I choose C according to the definition of "ping-pong" in the Longman dictionary:"an indoor game played on a table by two people with a small plastic ball and two bats"
Please help me with this .
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Actually, here's an excerpt from a wiki article on the subject:
In the USA the term "paddle" is common, in Europe the term is "bat," and the official ITTF term is "racket".
Courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_tennis#Racket
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:13 am What is Ping pong? |
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To avoid confusion, I've changed 'rackets' to 'rockets' and 'bats' to 'hats'.
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:00 am What is Ping pong? |
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Hello, here there is a mistake because ping-pong a game played like tennis with bats and a small plastic ball on a table with a net across it. (Oxford Dictionary)
paddle: is used for rowing a canoe. There is a wide part at one end or both.
oar: is used for rowing a boat but it has a wide part at one end.
My test was rated:
correct sentence:
Ping-pong players hit the ball with paddles
Correct answer: (a) paddles
Your answer was: incorrect
your sentence:
Ping-pong players hit the ball with bats
Translate sentence or define "paddles"
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| #7 (permalink) Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:17 am What is Ping pong? |
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Yes, Torsten's changes don't seem to have been picked up after a year.
This failure of the system to pick up changes is the reason I have stopped editing errors in the tests.
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| #8 (permalink) Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:51 am What is Ping pong? |
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Hello Bez,
I wrote my remark and after I saw that Alan said the paddles are correct also. Can be the paddles called bats also ?
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| #9 (permalink) Sun Mar 04, 2012 17:13 pm What is Ping pong? |
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yes
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| #10 (permalink) Sun Mar 04, 2012 17:48 pm What is Ping pong? |
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It is new for me.
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