Name: How to talk about sports in English
Uploaded: 2020-10-15T21:10:31.000Z
Duration: 9 min 11 s
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Past simple

So depending on when you see this, you might recognize his voice.

And today what I'd like us to work on because I want, you know, So you and I were always together, right?

So you and I want us to work on something about playing right now.

You might hear a little bit of music because in Toronto, we have a festival is called Cattle Bana.

Or, if I recall, rightly now is that Toronto Dominion Caribbean Festival.

But what the most important thing you have to remember is they play music often.

Students Well, you know, often we make mistakes, right When we speak and we're learning English, we use some things incorrectly.

So today I want to talk about what do you like to do on what I mean by that is playing often when we do things, we, uh we play sports and whatnot.

Okay, but a lot of students make a mistake because they think play in English is the same as their in their language or, you might think, plays the same in your language.

We have several different words for kind of playing.

Okay, so I want to go over that today and I hope you'll be.

But play is here because play in English means play games or sports these air, usually fun activities.

Sorry, Soccer in North American is what you would call football football with the leg.

All right, so soccer or baseball, especially if you're Japanese and I think in the Mexico U plays baseball.

But we play baseball means to have fun in the activity, not be serious.

These games are things like chess, right?

Right call of duty where you get to pretend to be a soldier you're playing?

Yeah, if you're from those countries, you'll go.

The opposite of play is to actually compete.

Competes comes is a verb to mean to do to find a winner.

It's and can be fun, but what we do, is it serious?

It's not just you and a friend going outside and kicking a ball and running on laughing.

We have words up here and I'll explain Train in a second.

That is when one or more people are working hard to see who is the best person now.

When we compete, we either have amateur or professional.

An amateur is someone who does the sports like the Olympics.

Right now it's 2000 and 12 but we have an Olympics.

There are many people across the world competing to see which country has the best athletes.

And an athlete is a person who practices sports.

Okay, now, those air amateur, they don't get any money.

So amateur can mean you are a high high level in sports.

Sometimes you pay to play, so you pay to play.

Okay, but if you've heard of those their professional, they get money.

So when people aren't playing, if they are high level, we call them amateur athletes or we say professional where money isn't.

Now, how do you get to go from playing two competing?

I play I You know, I I practice soccer, and we're like, What does that mean?

Because for us, you're either playing or competing.

And the difference between the two is training.

You need to get to go from playing to compete, you need to be stronger.

You run that gets your cardio cardio means heart.

Your heart on your lungs get stronger, they get better so you could doom or work.