Name: Talking about exercise: 💪⚽️🏊♂️ Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2025-11-22T16:53:38.000Z
Duration: 5 min 21 s
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What are we talking about this week, Neil?

We'll talk about the sports we play in our spare time.

Can you explain what you mean by spare time?

Well, spare time means the time when we're not working and we don't have anything that we need to do.

And we can also use the phrase free time, which means the same thing.

So Neil, do you play any sports in your free time?

I help my son training when he plays cricket, so that's kind of playing sport.

And how about you, Georgie, do you play sports?

I also don't play a sport, but I do like running and I also do yoga as well.

I usually do it during the week, but last weekend I did yoga as well.

I like doing yoga at the end of a stressful week because I feel it makes me relaxed.

I go running at lunchtime when I'm working from home.

So it's nice to do some exercise in the middle of the day and go for a run and then feel alive again in the afternoon.

But after I go running I feel great always and I think, ah, I should go running more, but

It was a really sunny day and it felt great.

So Georgie, do you have any plans to go for a run or maybe do yoga this weekend?

I have plans to go running with my friends.

Good, because that's like extra exercise.

Ok, Neil, so we know that you go running and you like cricket, but

are there any new sports that you'd like to try?

I have tried it in the past and it was just too boring.

Neil, could you explain the verb take up that you just used?

It means that we try something for the first time.

So you can take up a sport or take up learning a new instrument.

I think painting is a really nice way to boost your creativity.

Let's recap the vocabulary we learned during the conversation we had next to talk about a future plan, like next weekend.

We used last to talk about a past plan, like last weekend, last month, last week.

And we had take up, which means start a new hobby.

And I'm going to take up painting, which is exciting.

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