This glossary is useful for students like me who wants to become a physical education teacher. I've been studying in cegep for two years now, and I am going to university next year. My glossary will help you find words related to my field of study and understand them better. There are 20 words to my glossary. Each word has its own definition, pronunciation, translation, etc. I used Google to find all the information about each word. Take a look at my glossary to improve your vocabulary related to our field of study.
active
adjective
Active is an adjective that describes something or someone involved in continuous physical or mental action, movement, or operation, rather than being passive, idle, or dormant.
Example: This would allow some of the crop to be grown at the more favourable period for wheat and some to be grown slightly later at a time when powdery mildew is less ACTIVE.
en: actif
activity
noun
An activity is the state of being active, or a specific action, task, or pursuit that you do.
Example: Advertising also plays a role in supporting other areas of marketing ACTIVITY.
en: activité
athlete
noun
An athlete is a person who is trained, skilled, or gifted in sports, games, or physical exercises that require strength, speed, stamina, and agility.
Example: Unfortunately the Golgi tendon reflex is frequently inadequate to protect muscles and tendons of an ATHLETE, who due to large forces and rapid movements are particularly prone to hamstring tears (Seeley, Stephens and Tate 2003: 408).
en: athlète
competitive
adjective
Competitive means wanting to win, trying to do better than others, or involving a contest where people or groups rival each other.
Example: Irrigation and fertilisation techniques It has been noted in field trials that some weeds reach a point of water stress earlier than the crop in which they are growing, thus becoming less COMPETITIVE.
en: compétitif
education
noun
Education is the active process of gaining or giving knowledge, skills, values, and habits through teaching and learning.
Example: It includes primary EDUCATION, formal informal EDUCATION, long life learning, short and long term training. The literature shows that there is a consensus about investing in EDUCATION as a way to bring development, improve livelihood and reduce poverty. The MDG are (1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, (2) achieve universal primary EDUCATION, (3) promote gender equality and empower women, (4) reduce child mortality, (5) improve maternal health, (6) combat HIV AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, (7) ensure environment sustainability, and (8) develop a global partnership for development.
en: éducation
endurance
noun
Endurance is the ability to keep doing something difficult, painful, or stressful for a long time.
Example: Akebono Caliper Pad Retraction Springs During design and development, Akebono tests calipers for leakage, fluid displacement, deflection, noise, strength and ENDURANCE.
en: endurance
exercise
noun and verb
Exercise means physical or mental activity done to improve health, build strength, or practice a skill.
Example: This limits the importance of EIA, and Stallworth (1998:380) believes that it gives EIA no real say in development control. 'this approach...relegates environmental assessment to a mere public relations EXERCISE.'
en: exercice
fitness
noun
Fitness is the condition of being physically strong and healthy, or the ability to perform daily tasks with ease and without getting overly tired.
Example: His bloods should be taken to check for his haemoglobin levels (FBC), his iron and ferritin levels (as it was known from his drug history that he suffers from anaemia), check for signs of infection (ESR, WBC, CRP), his U&Es and creatinine levels (kidney function) and LFTs (further general levels of FITNESS). An AP chest x-ray should be taken to see for FITNESS for a general anaesthetic An ECG should be recorded to look for any recent, past MIs; arrhythmias (brady or tachy) and bundle branch block.
en: forme
health
noun
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Example: Organic is good for your HEALTH The higher average age and wealth of Waitrose customers, could also serve as an indicator for the strategy, that should emphasise the HEALTH-beneficial as well as the taste and well-being aspects of organic food consumption.
en: santé
learning
noun and verb
Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge, skills, behaviors, values, or understanding through study, instruction, or experience.
Example: Rogers, J. (2001) (First published 1971) Adults LEARNING , Open University Press, Buckingham . Tennant, M (1997) Psychology and Adult LEARNING , London: Routledge.
en: apprentissage
motivation
noun
Motivation is the internal or external driving force that inspires, directs, and sustains human behavior toward achieving a goal.
Example: Again, however, this change is absolutely necessary in order to address the problems of low MOTIVATION, absenteeism and low trust. Issues with this could include the employees' capability or wish to do an enlarged job, or the fact that some people like repetitive work and their MOTIVATION comes from outside their immediate work environment - some people do not want an enriched job.
en: motivation
movement
noun
Movement is the act or process of changing physical position, location, or posture from one place to another.
Example: He identifies that it is the orientation of the viewer within the monument that is important as well as the monument itself 'the general orientation of Stonehenge... ...implies directionality' and the importance of MOVEMENT 'To be understood, Stonehenge had to be experienced by MOVEMENT.'
en: mouvement
physical
adjective
Physical generally refers to things that relate to the material world, the human body, or the science of physics.
Example: Barber Bowsher 2000:280 Barber Bowsher 2000:285 Barber Bowsher 2000:286 Stress and wear on bones can indicate which PHYSICAL activities a person performed regularly and any trauma they have undergone.
en: physique
practice
noun and verb
Practice means performing an activity or exercise repeatedly to gain skill, or engaging in a profession like law or medicine.
Example: The risk assessment visit to CEDAR flagged up some of the main issues surrounding the management of health and safety and the need for careful planning and organising in order balance legislation against working practices. Current management practices have been discussed and appear successful, CEDAR is major accident free to date.
en: pratiquer
school
noun
A school is an institution or building where students receive education, instruction, and training from teachers.
Example: While the 'old SCHOOL' explanation was simply lack of wood resources, in 1980s archaeologists came to a conclusion, that maybe it was something less prosaic than that and found a connection to the contemporary economical and social processes.
en: école
sport
noun
A sport is an organized, rule-bound physical activity or game that requires skill and exertion, practiced for enjoyment, health, or competition.
Example: But even the winners are not immune to down-sides of globalization; as Dani Rodrik points out, "social disintegration is not a spectator SPORT - those on the sidelines also get splashed with mud from the field".
en: sport
strength
noun
Strength is the quality, state, or capacity of being physically or mentally strong.
Example: It has been observed that it was common for all commercial centres in the Mediterranean to accumulate luxury goods such as gold, silver, ivory and lapis lazuli, which may have been for the purposes of trade, the acquiring of stock before selling on but this accumulation has also been interpreted as "a symbol of economic STRENGTH" (Karageorghis 2002: 30).
en: force
teach
verb
To teach means to give knowledge, skills, or training to another person so they can learn.
Example: There is also the problem not only of how to TEACH, but of what to TEACH, as research has recognised the difference in conventions across different academic communities.
en: enseigner
teamwork
noun
Teamwork is the coordinated effort of a group of people working together to achieve a shared goal efficiently.
Example: According to the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS 98), where 16 most frequently discussed employee involvement techniques were listed with the proportion of being operated by workplaces, over half of workplaces applied formal TEAMWORK (65%), team briefing (61%), while staff attitude survey, problem-solving groups and regular meeting accounted for 45%, 42% and 37% respectively.
en: travail d'équipe
training
noun
Training is the process of learning or teaching the specific skills, knowledge, and physical fitness needed to do a job or activity well.
Example: Based on its TRAINING-of-trainers methodology, the skills gained can be disseminated at low costs within several developing countries organization.
