0:03 hey everybody welcome to this a2 English
0:05 listening practice video you can use
0:08 this video to train your listening and
0:11 comprehension as I speak so today I'm
0:14 going to talk about sports this is a
0:16 topic that some of you might really like
0:20 and some of you might not like it at all
0:23 I've always been an athletic person so I
0:26 like sports when I was young I played a
0:29 ton of sports I tried playing almost all
0:32 of the major sports during my childhood
0:35 one of the first sports I played was
0:38 t-ball you might not have heard of this
0:40 sport before because it's only for small children
0:41 children
0:44 I played t-ball when I was like four or
0:47 five years old it's like baseball but
0:51 easier and simpler after t-ball I
0:54 started playing soccer in the US many
0:58 children play soccer but not many adults
1:01 play soccer soccer isn't as popular in
1:04 the US as it is in other countries I
1:07 also played baseball tennis and
1:10 basketball when I was young out of all
1:12 these sports my favorite sport was
1:16 definitely basketball I continued
1:18 playing basketball until I was 17 and
1:22 then I stopped I was pretty tall when I
1:24 was young so I had an advantage when I
1:27 played basketball the other kids were
1:30 shorter than me I was the tallest person
1:33 on my middle-school team this means that
1:36 I could score pretty easily but when I
1:38 was in high school the other kids grew
1:41 and then I wasn't much taller than them
1:45 so I couldn't score easily anymore maybe
1:48 that's why I quit basketball I played
1:51 tennis a lot when I was young too my
1:54 whole family really likes tennis so my
1:56 parents made me play when I was young I
1:58 don't think I liked it that much when I
2:01 started but later I began to like it
2:05 more I was actually pretty good I took
2:07 many lessons in played in some different
2:10 tennis tournaments but I quit tennis
2:13 because I was more focused on basket
2:16 also when I was 16 I wanted to play
2:19 football American football you might not
2:21 know much about American football but
2:24 it's probably the most popular sport for
2:27 men in the u.s. well I also really liked
2:30 football and I wanted to play on my high
2:33 school team I trained with them for some
2:35 months but I wasn't that serious about
2:39 it the team practiced a lot like every
2:42 day and I couldn't do that so in the end
2:45 I didn't play after high school I
2:48 started playing golf golf is one of the
2:52 funnest sports in my opinion it's super
2:55 hard maybe the hardest sport of all but
2:58 that's what makes it so addicting you
3:00 feel really proud when you hit a good
3:02 shot because you know how difficult it
3:04 is to do that it's also really
3:06 frustrating when you mess up
3:10 so sometimes golf is not fun but when
3:11 you have a good day on the course
3:14 there's nothing like it it's so
3:18 addicting nowadays I don't really play
3:21 any sports anymore I honestly don't have
3:23 a lot of time to play sports and I don't
3:26 have the same motivation that I had when
3:29 I was young now I'm more motivated to do
3:32 other things but I still enjoy playing
3:35 sports from time to time now let's talk
3:37 about watching sports
3:40 some people prefer watching sports
3:43 rather than playing them I used to love
3:46 watching sports I was probably a little
3:49 too obsessed my favorite football team
3:52 when I was younger was the Seattle
3:54 Seahawks and I watched every one of
3:57 their games I would get really excited
4:00 when they made it to the playoffs and I
4:02 celebrated like crazy when they won the
4:05 Super Bowl but I think I spent too much
4:08 time and energy being a football fan
4:11 nowadays I don't really watch football
4:15 anymore I was also a big LA Lakers fan
4:18 when I was younger I was lucky because I
4:20 got to see them win the championship
4:24 five times when I was a kid I used to
4:26 dream of playing for the lake
4:29 when I got older these days the only
4:32 sport I watch is soccer I think I
4:34 started getting into soccer when I was
4:37 an adult like I said before I played
4:41 when I was a kid but I always preferred
4:45 other sports but as an adult soccer is
4:48 definitely my favorite sport besides the
4:50 normal sports I've also done some
4:53 extreme sports like skateboarding and
4:57 snowboarding I used to skateboard a lot
4:59 when I was in high school and I also
5:02 filmed some skate videos with my friends
5:04 I would say that I was never really good
5:08 though I always liked watching other
5:11 people do tricks that I couldn't do as
5:14 for snowboarding I've only gone three
5:17 times but I found it really fun the
5:20 first time was not good because I fell
5:23 down dozens of times but the second and
5:26 third time were much better once I
5:29 started to understand how to move
5:32 correctly it became fun I can't wait to
5:35 go snowboarding again okay that's all
5:38 for today leave a comment and tell me
5:41 what your favorite sport is I'll see you
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