A2 English Listening Practice - Sports — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey everybody welcome to this a2 English
2. 0:03listening practice video you can use
3. 0:05this video to train your listening and
4. 0:08comprehension as I speak so today I'm
5. 0:11going to talk about sports this is a
6. 0:14topic that some of you might really like
7. 0:16and some of you might not like it at all
8. 0:20I've always been an athletic person so I
9. 0:23like sports when I was young I played a
10. 0:26ton of sports I tried playing almost all
11. 0:29of the major sports during my childhood
12. 0:32one of the first sports I played was
13. 0:35t-ball you might not have heard of this
14. 0:38sport before because it's only for small
15. 0:40children
16. 0:41I played t-ball when I was like four or
17. 0:44five years old it's like baseball but
18. 0:47easier and simpler after t-ball I
19. 0:51started playing soccer in the US many
20. 0:54children play soccer but not many adults
21. 0:58play soccer soccer isn't as popular in
22. 1:01the US as it is in other countries I
23. 1:04also played baseball tennis and
24. 1:07basketball when I was young out of all
25. 1:10these sports my favorite sport was
26. 1:12definitely basketball I continued
27. 1:16playing basketball until I was 17 and
28. 1:18then I stopped I was pretty tall when I
29. 1:22was young so I had an advantage when I
30. 1:24played basketball the other kids were
31. 1:27shorter than me I was the tallest person
32. 1:30on my middle-school team this means that
33. 1:33I could score pretty easily but when I
34. 1:36was in high school the other kids grew
35. 1:38and then I wasn't much taller than them
36. 1:41so I couldn't score easily anymore maybe
37. 1:45that's why I quit basketball I played
38. 1:48tennis a lot when I was young too my
39. 1:51whole family really likes tennis so my
40. 1:54parents made me play when I was young I
41. 1:56don't think I liked it that much when I
42. 1:58started but later I began to like it
43. 2:01more I was actually pretty good I took
44. 2:05many lessons in played in some different
45. 2:07tennis tournaments but I quit tennis
46. 2:10because I was more focused on basket
47. 2:13also when I was 16 I wanted to play
48. 2:16football American football you might not
49. 2:19know much about American football but
50. 2:21it's probably the most popular sport for
51. 2:24men in the u.s. well I also really liked
52. 2:27football and I wanted to play on my high
53. 2:30school team I trained with them for some
54. 2:33months but I wasn't that serious about
55. 2:35it the team practiced a lot like every
56. 2:39day and I couldn't do that so in the end
57. 2:42I didn't play after high school I
58. 2:45started playing golf golf is one of the
59. 2:48funnest sports in my opinion it's super
60. 2:52hard maybe the hardest sport of all but
61. 2:55that's what makes it so addicting you
62. 2:58feel really proud when you hit a good
63. 3:00shot because you know how difficult it
64. 3:02is to do that it's also really
65. 3:04frustrating when you mess up
66. 3:06so sometimes golf is not fun but when
67. 3:10you have a good day on the course
68. 3:11there's nothing like it it's so
69. 3:14addicting nowadays I don't really play
70. 3:18any sports anymore I honestly don't have
71. 3:21a lot of time to play sports and I don't
72. 3:23have the same motivation that I had when
73. 3:26I was young now I'm more motivated to do
74. 3:29other things but I still enjoy playing
75. 3:32sports from time to time now let's talk
76. 3:35about watching sports
77. 3:37some people prefer watching sports
78. 3:40rather than playing them I used to love
79. 3:43watching sports I was probably a little
80. 3:46too obsessed my favorite football team
81. 3:49when I was younger was the Seattle
82. 3:52Seahawks and I watched every one of
83. 3:54their games I would get really excited
84. 3:57when they made it to the playoffs and I
85. 4:00celebrated like crazy when they won the
86. 4:02Super Bowl but I think I spent too much
87. 4:05time and energy being a football fan
88. 4:08nowadays I don't really watch football
89. 4:11anymore I was also a big LA Lakers fan
90. 4:15when I was younger I was lucky because I
91. 4:18got to see them win the championship
92. 4:20five times when I was a kid I used to
93. 4:24dream of playing for the lake
94. 4:26when I got older these days the only
95. 4:29sport I watch is soccer I think I
96. 4:32started getting into soccer when I was
97. 4:34an adult like I said before I played
98. 4:37when I was a kid but I always preferred
99. 4:41other sports but as an adult soccer is
100. 4:45definitely my favorite sport besides the
101. 4:48normal sports I've also done some
102. 4:50extreme sports like skateboarding and
103. 4:53snowboarding I used to skateboard a lot
104. 4:57when I was in high school and I also
105. 4:59filmed some skate videos with my friends
106. 5:02I would say that I was never really good
107. 5:04though I always liked watching other
108. 5:08people do tricks that I couldn't do as
109. 5:11for snowboarding I've only gone three
110. 5:14times but I found it really fun the
111. 5:17first time was not good because I fell
112. 5:20down dozens of times but the second and
113. 5:23third time were much better once I
114. 5:26started to understand how to move
115. 5:29correctly it became fun I can't wait to
116. 5:32go snowboarding again okay that's all
117. 5:35for today leave a comment and tell me
118. 5:38what your favorite sport is I'll see you
119. 5:41next video
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