We Lost - Everyday English Listening Practice

Hello, everybody! This is Jack from tofluency.com. I released a video

recently where said - I feel fantastic today - today I don't feel fantastic because I

was up a lot during the night and I've been awake since 3 a.m. I also played

football yesterday so I feel tired from that and yeah I don't feel my best but

I'm making a video anyway. It's Monday morning about 11:30 a.m. I want to talk

about sports today to give you some more listening practice and it will give you

practice related to sports vocabulary. Now, I did make a live video recently on

YouTube where I talked about the national game or the national sport, for example,

the national sport of England is cricket - ignore my dog -

the national sport of america is baseball - now, this doesn't mean that these sports are the most

popular sports in those countries but it's just saying it's the sport that's

most part of the culture - most embedded in the culture, however, the most popular

sport in the UK is football. I grew up playing football, I grew up watching

football I love it I'm always going to love it and when I moved to America, I

was a little bit worried that there wouldn't be anyone here who liked the

game. But to my surprise, it is super popular here in fact, they have a very popular

adult leaguge; adult soccer league and I play in this league and last night, as I

said, i played - we lost the semi-final we lost 2-1 but all is good because we

went out to celebrate anyway after because it's the end of the season. Now, I

am now 33 and

I'm not as quick as I was when I was 25/26 so it's getting more difficult every

year for me to play but I'm trying to get into training so that I get quicker; I

get faster; and I get better at soccer because I want to enjoy it as much as I

can. But I'm so excited I was so excited when I found out that there was a league here and

the standard is really high too. There are a lot of people who used to play college

football - college soccer as they call it - and a lot of people, well, in fact we played

against a professional player an ex-professional play yesterday, she was very

good, so yeah, it's very very popular here - I love love playing. The problem is as I said

I'm not as young as I used to be, so it's getting more difficult and I feel really

sore the days after - it takes me a long time to recover from the different games,

so it can be very difficult for me to go to the gym on Monday, Tuesday or

Wednesday - my legs feel really really sore still. What I want you to do is, for some

writing practice in the comment section below,

tell me what sport you currently play maybe you don't play a small but tell me

what sport you currently play and if you are good at it - if you are good at this

sport. If you don't play sport but you exercise, tell me what you do with that. I

read every comment and I also make corrections to certain comments too so

don't be shy,

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Thank you guys for watching, see you next time!