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Shawn Johnson
Welcome to Talking Sport!
The World Gymnastic Championships are taking place in Tokyo this month. They are one of the qualifying events for the Olympics.
In today's episode we hear again from American gymnast Shawn Johnson.
Unfortunately Shawn hasn't been chosen to compete for Team USA, but she is still hoping to be selected for the Olympics in another event.
So what is the hardest part about training for the Olympics?
Join Natalie in this week's video to hear from Shawn and learn the phrase 'make it'.
Learning point
Vocabulary: 'Make it'
Now tell us what you think
What do you want to 'make it' as?
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I want to make it as a good speaker of English.
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I do feel worried about people nowadays. We are busy concentrating on our own business but ignore others as a result.In addition,we even sometimes don't do our best for our work.That's why more and more people think that we are not as happy as before.So I want to make it as a kind helper and a responsible worker.
Jenny
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If you want to make it as English fluency you need to have perseverance in your studies until the cutting edge of the boredom
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I want to make it as pediatrician.
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I want to make it as a electrical engineer.
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I want to make it as a good English speaker. Maybe one day...
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I am afraid if i am going to make it in serching a job
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I am going to make it as a good worker, mother and wife. I am going to make it in everything what i do.
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I am learning hard to improve my English knowledge and I want to achieve a level of nearly-native speaker. I know I haven't successed my expectation yet, but I don't give it up and I hope I will make it in the near future.
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I expect to make it as a big combated again corruption in my country.
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I want to make it as a good singer, but I´m afraid it could be a little difficult because I´ve never learn techniques to sing.
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Hi, I am Mathilde.[Personal details removed by Moderator] I work truly hard in english and I try to come every day to BBC learning English, so I hope I'll make it ! Besides, I'll have an english test on tuesday and I want to make it too !
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I would like to make it as a worker using English in Japan.
But the hardest things for me is to keep studying English every day.
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