People in Sports 🏀🏈⚽ English Vocabulary with JenniferESL

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English with Jennifer


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Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English  with Jennifer. Do you know as a child,  
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I didn't play sports, but I cheered for those  who did. I was a cheerleader. I didn't do the  
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impressive gymnastics that today's cheerleaders  do. I did jumps and simple stunts. We learned  
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dance routines, and we yelled chants like  d-e-f-e-n-s-e defense. Through cheerleading,  
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I gained familiarity with American football  and basketball. When my children entered  
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the sports world, I learned about hockey and  soccer. There are words that are used across  
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sports. In this short lesson, we're going to  focus on the names of people in the sports world.
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An athlete is someone who plays sports. Athlete.  There are team sports and individual sports.
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A coach leads a team. There can be one main coach  and others who help. We call them the head coach  
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and assistant coaches.
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The players use "Coach" as a form of address.
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Coach. The players themselves can be grouped  by importance. Those who start the game are  
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the starters or the starting lineup. Others  stay on the bench, waiting for their turn.
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In professional sports,  athletes work with trainers.  
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Those are people who work with athletes to develop  their strengths and skills. Trainer, trainers.
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There can be overlap between  a coach and a trainer,  
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but I see a coach as someone who trains the  players, but also makes decisions during a game.
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Trainers mainly work with athletes outside  of the game, outside of an event. I'd say  
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that many athletes in individual sports have a  trainer, like boxers. Most sports are spectator  
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sports. When life is normal and there's no  global pandemic, spectators fill up stadiums  
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and arenas to watch sports events. A spectator  is someone who watches. A fan is someone who  
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cheers because they love a team or a specific  athlete. Spectator, spectators. Fan, fans.
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At a live game, there are commentators. A  commentator comments and narrates all the action  
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play-by-play. It's not an easy job. A sports  commentator gives details about what's happening  
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and recalls information about  each player's background.
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In contrast, a sports analyst talks about the game  
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after it happens. They evaluate the  players and the teams. Say "commentator."
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Sports commentator.
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Analyst. Sports analyst.
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All sports have rules. Team sports need officials.  We call them referees or ref for short. Referee,  
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referees. Ref, refs.
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They make sure the players follow the rules.  
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In baseball, the main official  is called the umpire. Umpire.
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In sports competitions, we have judges.  Judge, judges. They give scores to athletes  
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and determine the winners. We see judges at  gymnastic events or snowboarding competitions.
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Everyone who does a sport is an athlete.  
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More specifically, when you play a game you're  a player: a basketball player, a hockey player,  
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a tennis player, a football  player, a baseball player.
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For athletes who do other sports, we  take the verb and add -er: swimmer,  
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skater, fencer, wrestler, boxer, runner, golfer.
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And there are sports where the participant  has a name ending in -ist or -ast,  
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like cyclist, martial artist, gymnast.
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We'll end here. I hope  you'll more easily recognize  
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all the people in the sports world now in English.  
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Please like the video if you found it useful. As  always, thanks for watching and happy studies!
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