Jessica Ennis in training for the World Championships – exercise
Jessica Ennis, the 23-year-old Sheffield athlete, became Britain’s first gold medalist of the World Championships in Berlin’s Olympic stadium on 16th August 2009. The victory capped a remarkable comeback from the potentially career-threatening fractured right foot she suffered a little over a year before which ruled her out of the Beijing Olympics.
In this video Jessica Ennis, who became the new world champion in the women’s heptathlon in August 2009, talked about getting back into her athletics training regime in March 2009 after a break because of a fracture that prevented her attending the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.
You will hear Jessica’s northern accent in here pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ in words such as ‘jump’ ‘run’ and in the lost ‘g’ in words such as ‘doin’ / movin’ and runnin’.
1 What two particular speeds is Jessica in the middle of having tested during this video?
2 What is a bit different about this training session?
3 How is this fact reflected in what Jessica is doing?
4 What exact facts are the training staff after and for whom?
5 Jessica says her return to training has been good. What have all the sessions been like?
6 What has the weather been like?
7 What does Jessica describe as ‘good’ and ‘nice’?
8 What 3 sports does she mention resuming here?
9 How does she express the idea of making some sort of progress?
10 What 3 sports did she compete in in Cardiff in the City Challenge Competition?
11 How many sports were selected for this competition?
12 Does Jessica sound happy about her performance in this event?
13 What does she declare she needs?
14 Why was she nervous about the hurdles?
15 What was a) her overriding emotion about doing the hurdles and b) her feeling about competing again?