the people look awesome
sorry
james mingvid i just saw the new batman
movie so depending on when you see this
you might recognize his voice or i think
i've gone crazy
but i haven't
and today what i'd like us to work on
because i want to you know see you and i
we're always together right so you and i
want us to work on something about
playing
right now you might hear a little bit of
music because in toronto we have a
festival it's called carabana or if i
recall rightly now is the toronto
dominion
caribbean festival
but what the most important thing you
have to remember is they play music
often students well you know often we
make mistakes right when we speak and
we're learning english
we use some things incorrectly so today
i want to talk about
what
do
you
like to do
and what i mean by that is playing
often when we do things we um
we play sports and whatnot
what not in english just means whatever
okay but a lot of students make a
mistake because they think play in
english is the same as their in their
language or you might think play is the
same in your language but in english we
have several different words for
kind of playing okay so i want to go
over that today and i hope you'll be you
know you'll learn a lot you'll be very
clear when you're done so let's go to
the board
so
what do you like to play i erased it but
play is here because play in english
means play games or sports these are
usually fun activities i'm having fun
it's not serious okay so when i play i
play sports some of you play soccer
sorry soccer in north american is what
you would call
football footy ball
with the leg right kick all right so
soccer or baseball especially if you're
japanese
and i think in the mexico you play
baseball but we play baseball it means
to have fun in the activity not be
serious
we also play other games so sports i
play sports i play games these games are
things like chess
right or some people play cards
solitaire so you play a game for fun
okay now
it's the 21st century
many of you play
video games
right
call of duty where you get to pretend to
be a soldier you're playing yes so i've
got starcraft call of duty portal some
of you might need ddr
yeah if you're from those countries
you'll go oh yes ddrs fun it's a game
something you play to have fun okay so
that's why we say play now the opposite
of play is to actually compete
compete comes is a verb to mean to do
to find a winner it's not for it it's
and can be fun
but
what we do is it's serious okay it's
much more serious it's not just you and
a friend going outside and kicking a
ball and running and laughing you're
serious because you train now we have
words up here and i'll explain train in
a second but opposite of playing is
competing that is when one or more
people
are working hard to see who is the best
person
now in this case we have two things when
we compete
we either have amateur or professional
an amateur is someone who does the
sports like the olympics
right now it's 2012 but we have an
olympics there are many people across
the world competing to see which country
has the best athletes and an athlete is
a person who practices sports so they're
physically body is strong okay
now
those are amateur they don't get any
money no money so amateur can mean
you're a high high level in sport but
you do not get money sometimes you pay
to play so you pay to play professional
sports are different
maybe you've heard of michael jordan
maybe
okay or you've heard of david beckham
yes
um or mike tyson that's really old okay
but if you've heard of those they're
professional they get money so when
people aren't playing if they are high
level we call them amateur athletes or
we say professional where money is in
now how do you get to go from playing to
competing
well
you have to train
train yeah a lot of students go i play i
you know i
i practice soccer and we're like what
does that mean
it means nothing to us because for us
you're either playing or competing and
the difference between the two is
training what do i mean by training
well training you need to get to go from
playing to compete you need to be
stronger strong okay because train means
work hard i train i work hard and one
way to train
is to run
right you run
that gets your cardio cardio means heart
your heart
and your lungs get stronger they get
better so you can do more work so you
train to do more work
okay now sometimes at your work at your
job you train because you can do more
work
wow sports and work yeah okay now strong
strong fourth day in spanish
no muscle i have nothing
that's why i wear big shirts
okay but when you get strong you work
out lift weights
sorry
okay you work out to get strong and
flexible
yes
you get you can bend and move so we
train to get strong fast and flexible
and we must work hard so if you want to
go from playing to competing you must
train but if you train and you don't
practice you won't be very good
so we need to practice what do you mean
well
practicing
we practice to get better skills
actually first we practice to learn
skills you learn to do something and you
keep practicing it so you can make it
automatic that means you don't have to
think
and then we keep practicing to make the
skills even better
okay so if you want to learn how to do
karate
you have to do this many many times
first you go
and then you practice to your hand just
straight you ah okay then better
yes you need to practice to learn new
skills 100 new and get better at those
skills
and finally we say study what is
studying
well different things for instance games
you'll notice i said games and sports
you play but if you need to get a
special special skill which requires
lots of work and usually that includes
more of your mind we talk about studying
because you study martial arts
study you do practice to get better but
you study you do not play
martial arts and martial arts include
karate
yeah muay thai
yeah
and mma
whatever
okay so we study martial arts we also
study like in school for music and art
for example the piano you study it is
physical because you use your hands but
it is mental because you use your mind
so we must study you must study ideas
and then you can practice to get better
okay if you get very good you can
compete as an amateur or professional
training is required which means working
very hard but if you don't want to work
hard and you just want it to be fun
just play playing is fun so this is what
i said what would you like to do mr e
i'm sorry i almost forgot he's been
trying to play soccer but the ball's a
little too big for him you know but it's
his world it's his world but if you want
to learn more about his world and you
want to get better and i would like to
see you again because you know we work
well together i think yeah
okay i would like you to go to well
www dot yes i still say it
ing
as in english
vid as in video dot com
where you can complete the quiz that
comes with this and learn more about
what would you like to do we've got
grammar
we've got vocabulary we've got slang
we've got idioms
we've got understanding
well you get the idea come on back we'll
play some more okay bye
you