Free English Class! Topic: Sports! ⚽🏅🏐 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about sports.
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This is probably one of the big topics when you are learning
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English. There are so many people in the world that love
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watching sports and that love playing sports and it is a
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relatively familiar topic for most people. I know we just
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recently watched the Olympics. I know there are several
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sporting matches every evening, in every country, in all
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different types of sports. So, I thought it would be a good
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idea to do a lesson about sports. I'm sure you'll enjoy
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it. Whether you are someone who watches a lot of sports, maybe
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you're someone who plays a lot of sports or maybe you're just
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someone who's curious and wants to learn some words and phrases
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in English to be able to talk about sports. So, the first
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picture is also from Eugene and it's the phrase sports fan or
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the term sports fan. When you are someone who likes watching
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a certain sport, we say that You are a sports fan and then
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we use the word fan in other ways as well. We'll say things
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like, are you a fan of football? Which basically means
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do you watch football? Are you a fan of ice skating? Which is
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an Olympic winter sport and you might say, oh yeah, I'm a big
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fan. So, a sports fan is someone who likes to watch a
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sport. You can see in Eugene's picture here, the stands are
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filled with sports fans. People have all worn red because the
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Toronto FC their one uniform is red so that is their team color
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so they have worn red all of the fans are there wearing red
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to support their team and then we have something called a
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super fan a super fan is someone who is really really
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into a sport in English when you say someone is into
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something it means they really really like it a super fan is
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more likely to dress up on game day they're more likely to do
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crazy things. They might paint things on their faces. Um in
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university, sometimes super fans will some guys will paint
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letters on their chest or other weird things when they go to a
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game but a super fan is someone who really really loves the
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sport that they watch. Of course, fans will cheer. One of
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the things that you do when you watch a game. Whether you're at
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home or in the stadium is that you will probably cheer when
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your team does well. You will say things like yay. You will
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say things like go go go when the player on your team is
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about to score and then you might just sell yell yeah or
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something like that when they do score but you will
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definitely cheer when your team scores so I have to mention
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this this is a lesson from about two anda/ 2 years ago but
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I have redone the lesson I've added a whole bunch of new
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words I removed a couple of words so if some parts of this
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lesson seem familiar to a few of you that not all of you were
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here two and a 2 years ago that why. So, a person who plays a
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sport though is called a player. Someone who watches a
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sport is called a fan or a spectator. We'll talk about
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that later. Someone who plays a sport is called a player. We
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have what are called professional athletes.
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Professional athletes are people who are so good at
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playing the game that they get paid to play it. Their job is
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to play a sport. When I was younger, was a brief moment
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where I thought oh it would be so cool to be a professional
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hockey player. To be a professional athlete who plays
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hockey. Um but I don't think I was good enough. I never really
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pursued that dream. But could you imagine what it would be
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like to be paid to play the sport that you love playing?
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That must be a really cool experience. It must be a lot of
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fun to be a professional athlete. We also have amateur
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athletes. I'm sure many of us have been or are amateur
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athletes. In Canada it's quite common for people to play
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volleyball one night a week. People play hockey. We call it
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the Rec League recreational league. Uh people play soccer
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or football as you might call it in your country in the
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summer. There are a lot of amateur athletes in Canada. And
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I'm sure in your country as well. People who play a sport
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just for exercise and for enjoyment. And they don't get
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paid. They don't get paid anything. When you play a team
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sport, you are on a team. Um there's a difference between
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individual sports like running and those kinds of things. And
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team sports like football or hockey or basketball or
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volleyball. Where you have teammates. So a team is a group
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of people who all wear the same uniform usually and they play
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the same sport together and this can be amateur or
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professional. Um you can be on a a team as a professional
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athlete and as an amateur athlete, you can be on a team
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as well. Uh and then, again, I mentioned the word teammates.
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Teammates are the other people who are on your team. This is
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the Phoenix Mercury. It is one of the teams in the WNBA, the
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Women's National Basketball Association and the the woman
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in the middle, the player in the middle is Kia Nurse. She's
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one of my favorite players on that team. She's Canadian. I
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really, really like her. But a starting lineup, whenever a
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professional or amateur team plays against another team, the
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players who start the game are usually your best players and
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that group of players is called the starting lineup. So, when
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there is a basketball game, there are five players on the
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starting lineup they start the game. When you go to watch a
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football game or soccer game. There are 11 players I think
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who are on the starting lineup. Those are the players who
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usually they're the best players. Um most of them are
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usually the best players on the team and they make up the
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starting lineup. Sometimes depending on the sport the team
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will have a captain. In hockey the captain of the team is not
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the coach. The captain is a player who kind of leads the
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team in terms of keeping them happy and kind of demonstrating
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good behavior. In hockey, the captain usually has the letter
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C on their jersey. You can see on his hockey jersey, he has
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the letter C. This means that he is the captain of the team.
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So, the captain again doesn't show the players how to play
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but the captain kind of leads in a way where they kind of
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show they they're like a model player usually they're a
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veteran player or a really good player and they kind of lead
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the team in that sense they they give direction on how to
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be excited how to act in a positive way in those kinds of
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things and we have of course a coach. A coach is a person who
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decides how to train the team. The coach decides who will play
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and who will sit on the bench. The coach decides what
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strategies a team is going to use in order to try and win.
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The coach basically prepares the team before the game and
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then makes decisions during the game so the team can do the
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best that they can. Again, a coach does not play. A coach
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usually wears a suit and tie and a lot of sports, a coach
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will dress very, very nicely. Um and they will be on the
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sidelines or on the bench or off to the side of the field
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and they will give advice to the players and make decisions
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about how to best try and win the game. We of course,
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depending on the sport, you will have referees or umpires,
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there's a bunch of different names or the people who make
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sure all the players follow the rules of the game. Every sport
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that you play has rules and it's important that everyone
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follows the rules but humans are humans and sometimes, we
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break rules Either intentionally like we decide to
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break the rule or by accident, you just accidentally step off
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the field or you accidentally trip someone and then the
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referee or umpire will probably blow a whistle. I think I have
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a whistle up here. We'll look at that in a sec. Uh and they
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will stop the game and then they will either penalize one
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of the teams. There might be a foul or a card or something
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like that. But a referee or umpire usually Make sure the
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game goes smoothly. One thing to note in North America, we
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usually call referee's refs and we call umpires ums. So we
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shorten the words. The words aren't that long but so you'll
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you might hear people in the stand say ah come on ref that
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was a bad call. Or you might hear at a baseball game. You
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might say ah come on that was a strike. So you might hear
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people use the short forms of those two words. Referee
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becomes ref. Umpire becomes I So, depending on the sport and
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what country you live in, there are definitely times when you
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play a game but there's also times where you practice. In
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Canada, we usually refer to when a team gets together on a
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non-game day to be to work at becoming better at the sport.
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We call it a practice or we call it training. Um so, often
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times, a team will have a few games each week but they will
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also have times where they go to practice or where they have
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or where they have training. Where they just get to with the
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other players and coaches and they improve their skills. So
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they might practice dribbling if it's basketball. They might
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practice shooting if it's basketball. Shooting the ball
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if it's football or hockey. They might practice skating
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drills. They might do a whole bunch of things so that they
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become better at the sport. You practice a lot so that you can
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play a game or play a match. Depending on the sport you're
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playing. It will possibly have a different name. Uh in Canada
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sometimes people use match. Sometimes people use game. Game
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I think is the general term for a time when one team plays
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against someone else or a person plays against someone
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else. Um if you do something wrong in a game, there will
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most likely be a whistle. Referees and umpires usually
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have a whistle in most sports. Some sports they don't. They
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just need to yell really loudly. But if you hear a
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whistle in a soccer game. Play will stop and then the referee
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will make a decision whether someone is getting a warning or
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a yellow card or a red card or maybe it's just off sides or
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another rule has been broken and they blow the whistle to
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kind of remind everyone of the rules and restart the game. So,
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I mentioned these words a bit earlier. People who watch the
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game are called fans. When you're at the game, you're
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called spectators or you're just called the crowd. So, the
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crowd cheered or the spectators cheered. Um so, if you are at a
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game and you are watching a game, you're part of the crowd
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that's watching the game or you're one of the spectators.
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You're part of the spectators who are watching the game. Um
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let me get a little sip of water here. Often times,
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spectators or the crowd at a game will wear the colors that
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their team normally wears. You'll see in this picture,
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they're wearing, it looks like yellow and some purple for the
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team that they are cheering for. And you will sit in the
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stands which I think is short for the word grandstand but
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these are either called stands or bleachers, okay? When you go
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to a game, if it's inside of a building or if it's outside, it
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will usually have stands or bleachers. Um I think bleed are
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smaller than stands. Like at our school we have bleachers in
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our gym. Uh basically it's row seating. There's not chairs.
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There's like these benches row on row. And you sit in the
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stands or you sit in the bleachers when you cheer on
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whatever team you've gone to watch. Um the bleachers are
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sometimes really hard and your butt gets a little sore. So
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people often bring a small cushion if they're going to sit
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on the bleachers for a long time. So, we have two terms. We
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have home. When you go to watch a game, if I go to Toronto to
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watch a game and I'm watching the Toronto Maple Leafs, they
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are the home team. The home team is the team that's playing
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in the stadium or on the field that is in their city. The
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opposite of home is either the away team, the guest team, or
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the visiting team. So, we could say the away team, the
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visitors, the guests. We often in Canada use home and away.
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You can see on the scoreboard there's a spot for the home
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team's score and there's a spot for the away team's score. But
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you can also use guest or visitor. You'll see variations
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of this. But again the home team is the team that's playing
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in their home city. In their home stadium. So let's talk
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about where people play. People play sports in stadiums. People
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play sports in arenas. So a stadium is a place to go for
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American football. Generally referred to as a stadium and
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then an arena is generally used for hockey. So you go to a
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hockey arena to watch a hockey game. Look at how nice that ice
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looks. It's very very smooth. Um baseball games are usually
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played at a park or ballpark. Um so it's not really a park.
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But it's very green and it looks a little bit like a park.
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But it's main purpose is for people to play baseball. So you
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will go to a ballpark. You might go And watch a game on a
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court. So you might watch tennis or basketball. Um there
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are a lot of sports that are played on a court which is just
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a surface that's prepared with the proper lines for that
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sport. You can see this is a basketball court and it has the
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lines of the court, the center line, the three point line, the
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foul line. So you might watch a game that is played on a court.
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Or it might be played on a field or pitch. By the way,
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this picture is also from Eugene. This is of BMO Field
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where the Toronto FC play. So, thanks again Eugene. I think
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that's the the third and last photo that I used from Eugene
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but thank you. But you would call this a field. Notice I
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said it's BMO field. In England, in Canada, we say BMO
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but it's the Bank of Montreal, I think, BMO. Um so, this is
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BMO Field where the Toronto FC play. Um in different parts of
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the world, you might call it a pitch as well. You play on the
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soccer pitch or the football pitch. I mentioned earlier that
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there's something called motorsports motorsports are
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sports where you drive either race cars or motorcycles or
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some sort of vehicle in order to try and get first place.
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Some people think that motorsports aren't real sports.
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But there is a word in English, motorsports, which makes me
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think that they are a sport. So you might watch Formula 1, you
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might watch IndyCar. In North America, there's something
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called Nascar. I'm sure in your part of the world, there are
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different kinds of motorsport with different kinds of
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vehicles and they would of course have their competitions
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on a race track. A race track is like a road but it's
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specially designed to go usually in a circle and it's
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there so that people can go in a race and they can do their
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motorsport. When there is a game, there is almost always a
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score. I just put 31 here for fun but there's usually a
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score. In English, common phrases would be, what's the
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score? Or did you see the game last night? Yeah, what was the
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final score? The score is the number of goals or points that
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a team has gotten versus the other team when they're
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playing. So, when you watch a football game or soccer game,
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I'm using football as soccer right now. The score is usually
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something like three to one or five to two or two to nothing
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or one to nothing. But when you watch something like
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basketball, the score is usually 102-90 or 97 -78.
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basketball, it's a fun sport. People score a lot. And then
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you have a scoreboard as well. So, you could see on this
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scoreboard, it's 31 to 17. I would imagine they're playing
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American football. That's the kind of score you would see on
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a scoreboard when you watch American football but you can
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see a scoreboard is a big light board that will show you what
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the score is when you watch a sporting event. Um often times,
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when you go to see a game, it's nice to sit in a place where
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you have a clear view of the scoreboard. Sometimes, you go
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to a sporting event and the scoreboard is far away or
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you're sitting somewhere where you can't see it. I like to be
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able to see the scoreboard so that I know what the score is.
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Now, I talked about the score depending on the the sport that
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is being played. You will score a goal, you will score a point,
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you will get a point, you will get a goal. There's a number of
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ways to refer to it but generally, in most sports, the
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reason you play is to get points or to score goals so
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that you can get more goals or points than the other team and
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you can win the game. So, in this shot, you can see this
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girl is about to kick the soccer ball. She is going to
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try and get a goal so that her team can get another point.
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Notice I do kind of flip goal and point around a lot. That's
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fairly common when talking about sports. And of course you
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want to win. Um you want to win the game. You want to get a
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win. Notice there's a a verb and a noun version. So a team
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can have seven wins. So that's the noun. They've won seven
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times. When you play a game you want to win the game. So to win
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is the verb form. Um so the Goal of a team is to win.
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That's the goal. That's a lot of times people say it's not
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important to win. It's just important to have fun but in
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professional sports, I think it's also important to win. And
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of course, the opposite is a loss, okay? So, if you have a
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seven wins, you might have three losses. That would be a
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pretty good record. Um and then, I think I don't, I don't
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have the verb form but the verb form is to lose, okay? So, L O
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S E. So, the Noun is a loss, the verb is to lose. And then
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sometimes you have a tie. I think this might be called a
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draw in some sports. Um but a tie is when each team has the
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same number of points. Or each team has the same number of
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goals. Sometimes people are disappointed with a tie. I'm
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usually a little bit disappointed when a game is
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tied. Overtime, sometimes when there is a tie, depending on
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the sport, there might be overtime. Overtime is extra
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time in the game where Each team tries to win. So you can
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see here the score is 1414. You can also see this scoreboard
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says home and guest. The last scoreboard said home in a way.
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But this game is tie and they might then have overtime. It
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really depends on the sport. Some sports you're allowed to
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end in a tie. Other sports sometimes have overtime or
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multiple overtimes until someone wins. And they might
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even have a shootout. That's where each team takes turns
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having one player shoot on the net or try to score in order to
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find out who the winner is. Players who don't play are
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usually on a bench. They literally sit on a bench in
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some sports but these players have chairs even if it's all
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chairs. We still call it a bench. And people will even
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describe themselves as you know oh I play for this team but I'm
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a bench player or I'm on the starting lineup. So a bench
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player is someone who doesn't start the game. So a bench
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player is someone who starts the game sitting and probably
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gets subbed in later. Most teams will have a uniform. Here
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you can see this uniform is for a baseball team. They have a
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helmet. Um probably they only wear the helmet when they're
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doing the batting. Um and then they have all obviously all of
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the uniform is in the team colors. And then you need
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equipment. Um I didn't talk about cricket at all but
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cricket is one game where you need certain kinds of equipment
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in order to play the game. Uh you need certain gloves, you
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need a bat, you need padding as well. So, some sports require
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equipment. Some sports require a lot of equipment. One of the
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reasons that hockey is an expensive sport to play is that
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you need a lot of equipment to play hockey. Whereas soccer is
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a little bit cheaper to play because you don't need as much
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equipment. You need a good pair of shoes and maybe one other
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piece of protective gear. Um sometimes, when you play a
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sport professionally, you will have a sponsor. You can see
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this car is sponsored by Michelin. If you look at the
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very front of the car, you see the word Michelin there. So, it
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looks like the Michelin Tire Company is one of the sponsors.
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A sponsor is someone who gives money so that a sport can
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exist, okay? So, many teams are sponsored by different brands
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in the world. Different companies will sponsor a And
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then often a professional team will play in a league like the
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National Football League or the European Football League which
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are both different kinds of football. Um but a league is a
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group of teams where everyone is at the same level or very
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close in skill level and they play against each other
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repeatedly until someone proves themselves to be the best team.
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Um if you are in a league, you will have a schedule. So, maybe
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you have a 14-game season or a 90-game season. You have a
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schedule that shows every day when you are going to be
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playing that game. And you have a season. So, different sports
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have different seasons. The NBA, the basketball league in
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North America, their season starts in about five or six
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days. I think the Raptors play their first basketball game on
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October 20th and their season goes to mid to late spring.
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That's their season. The National Football League, the
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NFL, their season started in September and it goes to about
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the first second week of February when they have the
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Super Bowl, one of the biggest championship games in the
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world. So, when you play a sport, especially a
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professional sport, you usually have a season. And then, as you
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play through your season, there are standings. So, this is a
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list of the teams in order of who's doing the best down to
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who's doing the worst. So, the team at the top has the most
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wins. The team at the bottom has the fewest wins and
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probably the most losses. So, that's what we would call the
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standings. So, teams are always trying to move up in the
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standings. If they lose a game, they might move down in the
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standings. You always want to move up in the standings. Um
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sometimes you have a regular season but you might also have
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a tournament. So, our teams at school are school sports teams.
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They have a regular season. They play about 10 or 15 games,
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but every once in a while on a weekend, they'll go to a
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tournament. A tournament is outside of their season. The
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games don't count towards their standings but it's just a day
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to go and play against a bunch of other teams one after the
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other. Tournaments are pretty fun. Covid has made them pretty
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much impossible right now. I don't think we go to
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tournaments right now. But a tournament is a fun thing to
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do. It's usually over a weekend or a long weekend. And then of
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course at the end of a season you have playoffs where
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different teams play each other. When you are in playoffs
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if you lose you are probably out. When you're out it means
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that your season is over. So there's a regular season at the
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end. There's a time when teams the best teams maybe the top
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four or the top eight teams start to play each other until
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they determine who is the best. And that usually happens in the
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finals or the championship game. So the very last game of
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the season determines the winner of the whole season. Uh
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and it's usually called the finals or the championship. Now
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it might be a series. Many times it's best three out of
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five. Best best five out of seven. So in hockey they
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usually play during the playoffs. They play seven games
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and you need to win four of the seven So best three out of
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five, best four out of seven. I think I said five out of seven.
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Um but usually it is a best of. So it is a series of games
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where you try to find who is the best. And then here just a
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couple of things to wrap up the lesson. Um when the ref blows
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the whistle, you might get a penalty. In some sports, you
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might get a card in other sports. Um if you do something
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really bad, you might be ejected from the game. When
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you're ejected, it means that you're at to leave the building
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while the game is still being played. You have to do
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something pretty serious to be ejected from a game. And then
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finally, if you do something really bad, you might get a
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suspension. A suspension means that you probably get ejected
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and then you can't play the next game or maybe the game
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after as well. Often when players do something bad during
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the game or even if they do something in life, like if they
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get arrested or they get caught doing something illegal, they
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will get a suspension and they will not be able to play.
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