Vocabulary Spotlight | play sports, do martial arts, and run track and cross country

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain when to use play, do, and run with activities related to exercise. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:49 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are doing a vocabulary builder and social. We're going to talk about sports and activities today and I think there there are some verb differences that we use when we're talking about. 00:01:08 Jack Certain sports and then certain kind of. 00:01:10 Jack Sport like activities. 00:01:13 Jack And so, like, what would we use to to describe like, basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer? Which verb do we use with with those sports? 00:01:28 Xochitl Uh, I would say we use play with those, right, with those sports. 00:01:32 Jack Exactly. We say I play basketball. He plays basketball, they play basketball, I play soccer. Do you? 00:01:41 Jack Do you play any sports? 00:01:44 Xochitl UM. 00:01:46 Xochitl I used to. 00:01:49 Xochitl But I don't anymore. 00:01:51 Jack What? What did you used to? I bet you used to be on the soccer team, right? 00:01:54 Xochitl Yeah, I used to. 00:01:55 Xochitl Play soccer I I did used to play soccer, but I have another one and and I realize it conflicts with R2 but I used to run track. 00:01:56 Jack Yeah. 00:02:05 Jack Ohh, nice. Well, there's a third one we could throw in there. Yeah. Run. Run track. Yes. 00:02:06 Xochitl Press. 00:02:10 Xochitl I ran track or you can go. I ran cross cross country as well. 00:02:15 Jack Ohh I ran cross country one year but I was I finished last every time I was the slowest. 00:02:20 Xochitl I also finished last every time so I don't feel bad. I live in two last places and now it's podcast. Ohh, that's funny. Running a podcast. You also kind of run a podcast. 00:02:26 Jack Yeah. 00:02:32 Jack Yeah, right. We run an English corner. We run an English business. 00:02:34 Xochitl You can run. Yeah. You run a business as well, that's just. 00:02:38 Jack Right, yeah. 00:02:40 Xochitl Thing. 00:02:41 Jack OK. Yeah. So I used to, I used to play play basketball in in high school and college. That was my, my, my big sport was was basketball. But after graduating from university, I I stopped playing basketball and I, but I continued to play tennis. 00:03:01 Jack So when? 00:03:01 Jack When I go home to America, I play tennis with my brother. I play with my dad and I play with my mom. They they all play tennis and my dad is 75. My mom is 74, but they still play tennis almost every day, so they're very into fitness and and well and health. 00:03:22 Jack MHM. 00:03:23 Jack What about do what? What kind of so do is the second one and what what do we use? What activities do we use do for? 00:03:33 Xochitl Do hmm. 00:03:37 Xochitl I. 00:03:41 Xochitl I do Taekwondo. I used to do Taekwondo. 00:03:44 Jack Oh, did you do a little around self-defense? Yeah. 00:03:45 Xochitl I did like. 00:03:48 Xochitl A little martial arts, yeah. 00:03:49 Jack Yeah, watch out or social's going to spin kick you around the chin. 00:03:55 Xochitl Yeah, I actually kicked my dad once. He asked me to. So it's it was not my fault. And I told him I wouldn't do it. And then he said I would be grounded if I didn't kick him. So then I did kick him. I was a kid. I was like 13. I think I did kick him. And then he said I was grounded cause I kicked him and my mom said no, she's not. 00:04:1