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Aloha-Recently Tiger Woods has been in the news. The world's greatest golf player has had some trouble and while
we know he is a media sensation, shouldn't we leave him and his wife alone? Learning English will require you to
follow a little pop culture and form opinions so that you can discuss the issues with your friends. So let's look into Tiger Woods a little more deeply.
Theme: Tiger Woods
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Eldrick Tont Woods (born December 30, 1975), better known as Tiger Woods, is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time.
Currently the World No. 1, he was the highest-paid professional athlete in 2008, having earned an estimated $110 million from winnings and endorsements.
Woods has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second highest of any male player, and 71 PGA Tour events, third all time. He has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest and fastest to win 50
tournaments on tour.
Additionally, Woods is only the second golfer to have achieved a career grand slam three times along with Jack Nicklaus. Woods has won 16 World Golf Championships and has won at least one event each of the 11 years they have been in existence.
Woods has held the number one position in the world rankings for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record ten times, the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times, and has the record of leading the money list in nine different seasons.
On December 11, 2009, Woods announced he would take an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity. His multiple infidelities were revealed by over a dozen mistresses, through many worldwide media sources.[
-From Wikipedia
Please answer the following questions in your journal. Try to write in complete sentences and give detailed answers.
1. What do you think about the
Tiger Woods story?
2. Where should the media draw
the line when reporting on
personal affairs?
3. Do you think Tiger can make a
come back?
4. Does being a child star have an
impact on adult life?
5. Does society have the right to
judge another person's actions
and why?
Imagine that you had to give Tiger Woods advice about what to do going forward. What would you say? Take some time to form your thoughts clearly and then practice giving Tiger some advice.
Ask for feedback from your teacher.
Apologies
I'm so sorry.
I'd like to apologize.
Please forgive me.
I regret my actions.
I feel terrible about what happened.
I wish I could take it back.
I'd give anything to make it right.
I feel a great sense of remorse.
Listen to Tiger Woods apologize for his marital infidelity. Notice the tone, the pain in his expressions and the subdued nature of his speech.
Golf Idioms
a hole in one
To succeed the first time in a grand way
John's new soap campaign was a hole in one!
scratch
To be equal, to start from zero
Let's start again from scratch.
She made the cake from scratch.
below par
not up to standard
His performance was below par.
Mindset
“My mother’s a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That’s something she passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.”
“People get aggressive and tend to crowd in and it can get pretty ugly out there. Adults are even knocking over kids to get an autograph.”
“The biggest thing is to have the mind-set and the belief you can win every tournament going on. A lot of guys don’t have that; Nicklaus had it. He felt he was going to beat everybody.”
Tiger Woods
