A2 English Listening Practice - Sports

hey everybody welcome to this a2 English listening practice video you can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak so today I'm going to talk about sports this is a topic that some of you might really like and some of you might not like it at all I've always been an athletic person so I like sports when I was young I played a ton of sports I tried playing almost all of the major sports during my childhood one of the first sports I played was t-ball you might not have heard of

this sport before because it's only for small children I played t-ball when I was like four or five years old it's like baseball but easier and simpler after t-ball I started playing soccer in the US many children play soccer but not many adults play soccer soccer isn't as popular in the US as it is in other countries I also played baseball tennis and basketball when I was young out of all these sports my favorite sport was definitely basketball I continued playing basketball until I was 17 and then I stopped I was pretty tall when I

was young so I had an advantage when I played basketball the other kids were shorter than me I was the tallest person on my middle-school team this means that I could score pretty easily but when I was in high school the other kids grew and then I wasn't much taller than them so I couldn't score easily anymore maybe that's why I quit basketball I played tennis a lot when I was young too my whole family really likes tennis so my parents made me play when I was young I don't think I liked it that much

when I started but later I began to like it more I was actually pretty good I took many lessons in played in some different tennis tournaments but I quit tennis because I was more focused on basket also when I was 16 I wanted to play football American football you might not know much about American football but it's probably the most popular sport for men in the u.s. well I also really liked football and I wanted to play on my high school team I trained with them for some months but I wasn't that serious about it

the team practiced a lot like every day and I couldn't do that so in the end I didn't play after high school I started playing golf golf is one of the funnest sports in my opinion it's super hard maybe the hardest sport of all but that's what makes it so addicting you feel really proud when you hit a good shot because you know how difficult it is to do that it's also really frustrating when you mess up so sometimes golf is not fun but when you have a good day on the course there's nothing like

it it's so addicting nowadays I don't really play any sports anymore I honestly don't have a lot of time to play sports and I don't have the same motivation that I had when I was young now I'm more motivated to do other things but I still enjoy playing sports from time to time now let's talk about watching sports some people prefer watching sports rather than playing them I used to love watching sports I was probably a little too obsessed my favorite football team when I was younger was the Seattle Seahawks and I watched every one

of their games I would get really excited when they made it to the playoffs and I celebrated like crazy when they won the Super Bowl but I think I spent too much time and energy being a football fan nowadays I don't really watch football anymore I was also a big LA Lakers fan when I was younger I was lucky because I got to see them win the championship five times when I was a kid I used to dream of playing for the lake when I got older these days the only sport I watch is soccer

I think I started getting into soccer when I was an adult like I said before I played when I was a kid but I always preferred other sports but as an adult soccer is definitely my favorite sport besides the normal sports I've also done some extreme sports like skateboarding and snowboarding I used to skateboard a lot when I was in high school and I also filmed some skate videos with my friends I would say that I was never really good though I always liked watching other people do tricks that I couldn't do as for snowboarding

I've only gone three times but I found it really fun the first time was not good because I fell down dozens of times but the second and third time were much better once I started to understand how to move correctly it became fun I can't wait to go snowboarding again okay that's all for today leave a comment and tell me what your favorite sport is I'll see you next video [Music]