Vocabulary Spotlight | play sports, do martial arts, and run track and cross country
Description
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain when to use play, do, and run with activities related to exercise.
Transcript:
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Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a vocabulary builder and social. We're going to talk about sports and activities today and I think there there are some verb differences that we use when we're talking about.
Jack
Certain sports and then certain kind of.
Jack
Sport like activities.
Jack
And so, like, what would we use to to describe like, basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer? Which verb do we use with with those sports?
Xochitl
Uh, I would say we use play with those, right, with those sports.
Jack
Exactly. We say I play basketball. He plays basketball, they play basketball, I play soccer. Do you?
Jack
Do you play any sports?
Xochitl
UM.
Xochitl
I used to.
Xochitl
But I don't anymore.
Jack
What? What did you used to? I bet you used to be on the soccer team, right?
Xochitl
Yeah, I used to.
Xochitl
Play soccer I I did used to play soccer, but I have another one and and I realize it conflicts with R2 but I used to run track.
Jack
Yeah.
Jack
Ohh, nice. Well, there's a third one we could throw in there. Yeah. Run. Run track. Yes.
Xochitl
Press.
Xochitl
I ran track or you can go. I ran cross cross country as well.
Jack
Ohh I ran cross country one year but I was I finished last every time I was the slowest.
Xochitl
I also finished last every time so I don't feel bad. I live in two last places and now it's podcast. Ohh, that's funny. Running a podcast. You also kind of run a podcast.
Jack
Yeah.
Jack
Yeah, right. We run an English corner. We run an English business.
Xochitl
You can run. Yeah. You run a business as well, that's just.
Jack
Right, yeah.
Xochitl
Thing.
Jack
OK. Yeah. So I used to, I used to play play basketball in in high school and college. That was my, my, my big sport was was basketball. But after graduating from university, I I stopped playing basketball and I, but I continued to play tennis.
Jack
So when?
Jack
When I go home to America, I play tennis with my brother. I play with my dad and I play with my mom. They they all play tennis and my dad is 75. My mom is 74, but they still play tennis almost every day, so they're very into fitness and and well and health.
Jack
MHM.
Jack
What about do what? What kind of so do is the second one and what what do we use? What activities do we use do for?
Xochitl
Do hmm.
Xochitl
I.
Xochitl
I do Taekwondo. I used to do Taekwondo.
Jack
Oh, did you do a little around self-defense? Yeah.
Xochitl
I did like.
Xochitl
A little martial arts, yeah.
Jack
Yeah, watch out or social's going to spin kick you around the chin.
Xochitl
Yeah, I actually kicked my dad once. He asked me to. So it's it was not my fault. And I told him I wouldn't do it. And then he said I would be grounded if I didn't kick him. So then I did kick him. I was a kid. I was like 13. I think I did kick him. And then he said I was grounded cause I kicked him and my mom said no, she's not.
Xochitl
Grow up.
Jack
So you your dad's like this is not going to hurt. And then it hurt really bad.
Xochitl
Yeah. And then he was like, you're grounded. And my mom, like, you literally forced her hand her her foot. Basically. You forced her foot so you can't play now. It was funny.
Jack
Grounded.
Jack
That's so.
Jack
Your dad is hilarious. That's great.
Xochitl
That's like crazy.
Jack
Yeah. So yeah, I was like martial arts, like, like, karate, Taekwondo, jujitsu. We generally say, like, we do, I do karate, I do Taekwondo. I do jujitsu.
발표자
Do.
Jack
We do not say I play those things and I guess I don't know, because maybe like martial arts is a little different. It's not necessarily like a game. It is a competition or it can be a competition.
Jack
But I just we just tend not to use the verb play with those because it's just, uh, it's it's a different kind of activity maybe because, like team sports, we tend to use play, although tennis can be a, a, an individual sport and we use play for tennis. So maybe if.
Jack
It has a ball.
Jack
We use play. Is that a a rule we could use?
Xochitl
I play. I think it's just I think the play is just cause it's a game like tennis is a game.
Xochitl
Basketball is a game. Soccer is a game. Football is a game. So we play those and then sports like it's not really a game. Like you said, it can be a competition or like a like a.
Xochitl
Uh, what do they call those? Not a skirmish, but a like a, not a duel. What do you call those when they fight against each other? A match or something. But yeah, it it can be a match or a competition of some sort. A spar. It can be a spar of some sort, but it's not. It's not a game. It's kind of a little bit more.
발표자
Well.
Jack
On match right.
Xochitl
Serious. Anyway, so I think that's. I think that's why we say do instead of play. I don't know. What do you think Jack?
Jack
Yeah, that's a good way to look at it.
Jack
Like you could get hurt doing it, right?
Xochitl
Ohh yeah, I mean you could get hurt playing.
Xochitl
Playing.
Jack
American football, of course. Yeah, that doesn't. That's not a good measure. Sorry.
Xochitl
But I think it's fine. I think it's just more like it's a game like like Football is a game and martial arts, it's like it's not a game in the same way, I think it's just a. It's like an art. Literally. It's an art. So.
Jack
Yeah. And we also use it for yoga too. Yoga and Pilates, we say do I do yoga? I do Pilates.
Jack
And those are those are not, because there's no, there's no competition there. It's just you're basically it's just a fitness type of thing. It's a a well-being thing, so.
Xochitl
Yeah. It's like a Wellness thing, yeah.
Jack
Yeah.
Jack
All right. Well, I hope we.
Jack
Cleared that up for everybody.
Xochitl
Yeah, we may have made it more confusing. Let us know in the comments if we confused you more, but hopefully our examples you know practicing with the examples that we provided will be helpful.
Xochitl
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Xochitl
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Xochitl
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