Name: Sesame Street: Kids Meet a Basketball Player featuring HiHo Kids & Ryneldi Becenti
Uploaded: 2022-08-18T16:49:06.000Z
Duration: 5 min 47 s
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Modal verbs - A2

- In any sport, you have to learn how to win,

To-infinitive

Gerund

but at the same time, you still keep working hard

to accomplish your goal, and then you just keep working at.

- That's doing the same over and over again, right?

- Do you know what we're here to talk about?

- Wait a minute, there's a basketball player right here?

Wait a minute, are you a former basketball player?

I was the first Native American to play in the WNBA.

- It's Women's National Basketball Association.

I was recruited to play for the Phoenix Mercury.

- I learned basketball through my parents,

- How old were you when you started playing?

- I started playing when I was five years old.

- Five, that's only a year older than me.

- Well, I do a lot of singing and dancing.

- Can you dribble like, you know, they do between your legs?

- Yes, dancing with a basketball, good way to put it.

- Can you spin a basketball on your finger?

And Elmo can watch Rafa do a great job right now.

- Is there anything you practice a lot, Ellie?

and I'm practicing on a split, and I've almost got it.

- Well, there's a lot of stretching involving it.

- Do you have to practice your flexibility for basketball?

The basketball court I used to play on was just dirt.

- It's our Native American bread that we make a lot.

So our dad would get mad 'cause we're using all the flour.

when you were growing up and playing basketball?

- Yes, all my friends helped me, all my teammates,

- Well, obviously my parents, because they feed me

and do a lot of things that's important for my life.

that cheer me on when I'm playing soccer.

- What made you want to play basketball professionally?

- My favorite basketball player was Cheryl Miller,

look at Cheryl Miller, she's a African American,

she's opening doors for African Americans,

and so my goal was be the first out there

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Sesame Street: Kids Meet a Basketball Player featuring HiHo Kids & Ryneldi Becenti

awesome

stretch

practice

repetition