Sports and the verbs 'play' 'go' and 'do': Learn English with Simple English Videos

What do you want to do this weekend? We could go to the gym and do some

¿Qué quieres hacer este fin de semana? Podríamos ir al gimnasio y hacer algo

weight lifting. Urgh! That's too energetic.

levantamiento de pesas. Urgh! Eso es muy enérgico.

Or we could play some golf. No, let's go bowling.

O podríamos jugar al golf. No, vamos a los bolos

Bowling? Yeah. But you always win. That's why I like it.

¿Bolos? Si. Pero siempre ganas. Por eso me gusta.

We use these verbs to talk about sports in English. So we do weight lifting. We play

Usamos estos verbos para hablar sobre deportes en inglés. Entonces hacemos levantamiento de pesas. Nosotros jugamos

golf. And we go bowling. I play golf.

golf. Y vamos a los bolos. Juego golf.

In this video you'll learn which verbs we use with which sports. And you'll learn the

En este video aprenderás qué verbos usamos con qué deportes. Y aprenderás el

names of lots of sports. Let's start with the verb 'play'.

nombres de muchos deportes. Comencemos con el verbo 'play'.

In America, we play football. That's American football, Jay. The rest of

En Estados Unidos, jugamos al fútbol. Eso es fútbol americano, Jay. El resto de

the world plays football like this. No, we call that soccer. In British English

El mundo juega al fútbol así. No, a eso le llamamos fútbol. En ingles britanico

it's football. But the ball's the wrong shape for football.

Es fútbol. Pero la pelota es la forma incorrecta para el fútbol

If it's a sport with a ball, we generally play it. There are exceptions, like we

Si es un deporte con pelota, generalmente lo jugamos. Hay excepciones, como nosotros

go bowling. But usually we play ball sports. So we play cricket. We play tennis. And we play

ir a los bolos. Pero generalmente jugamos deportes de pelota. Entonces jugamos al cricket. Jugamos tenis Y jugamos

snooker and pool. We often use 'play' where there's a competition,

billar y piscina. A menudo usamos 'jugar' donde hay una competencia,

so someone wins or loses. And of course we can play other games like

entonces alguien gana o pierde. Y, por supuesto, podemos jugar otros juegos como

cards and chess. So we play darts, and we play scrabble. OK,

cartas y ajedrez. Entonces jugamos dardos y jugamos al scrabble. OKAY,

let's move on to the verb 'go'. Oooo. What's the matter? I went jogging this

morning and I hurt my back. You poor thing! Notice Jay said 'went jogging'. 'Went' is

the past tense of 'go' and 'jogging' is a gerund - a noun made from a verb by adding

'-ing'. There are lots of sports that follow this

pattern, and they're generally activities that we don't do at home.

We go out to another place to do them. So we go swimming, we go fishing, we go skiing,

we go surfing and we go skateboarding. I'm playing golf tonight. I love golf. What's

your favorite sport, Vicki? Gymnastics.

But you don't do gymnastics. No, I just like watching it on TV. So do I.

Our last verb is 'do' and we use it with newer more modern sports. We 'practice' or 'do'

them. So we do yoga, do aerobics, do pilates, do

judo and do kendo and other martial arts. We also use 'do' to talk about specific exercises.

So we do squats and we do leg lifts. I do this exercise to build my chest and arm muscles

OK, now it's your turn. You're going to see

some different sports, games and exercises. Can you say which verb we use with them?

Did you get them all? Let's review. Go horse riding. Play basketball. Do push ups

Go sailing. Play baseball. Go cycling.

Do parkour. Play rugby. Go paragliding. Play shuffleboard. Do karate. Go rafting.

Go rock climbing. Play volleyball. Go ballooning. Do tai chi.

Play rock paper scissors. So are we playing golf or are we going bowling?

We're going bowling. Hmmm. I know. We'll play rock paper scissors and

the winner chooses. So if I win, we'll play golf.

And if I win, we'll go bowling. Ready? Yeah. Rock, paper, scissors. Ha, ha!

Go and find your bowling shoes. Humph.