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so for these matches they can usually
end in three ways either one side will
win will'll lose or it will be a draw so
for example if Vietnam plays a football
match and they win you could say Vietnam
won the football match what's up
everybody podcast slow and clear gou
what's up English in today's podcast we
you are going to learn a ton of words
and phrases about sports not only that
but I'm going to tell you some
interesting things like why do Americans
call football soccer and we will talk
about the most popular sports in Vietnam
and then at the end of the podcast we
will have a quiz about general knowledge
of sports so you will do a quiz and
there are five questions to see how much
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learn English okay so now let's talk
about sports when I was young I used to
play sports I was never that good I had
an older brother who also played Sports
and he was better than me at every sport
we played but I did play a little bit of
hockey and a little bit of soccer as
well and here is a picture of the the
highlight of my hockey career this was
when I won a trophy for being the MVP at
the allstar game for my league now some
of you might remember my video about uh
what does VIP mean very important person
but this one is the
MVP so do you know what MVP means I'll
give you a few seconds to think about
it so MVP means Most Valuable Player and
this is an acronym or a term that we use
usually for sports the MVP we don't say
VIP we say MVP so that was probably the
peak of my sports career and then after
that it kind of just I got lazy and I
stopped playing
sports sometimes I still do Muay Thai um
and boxing because I really like the
Combat Sports but I don't compete or and
I don't uh play in a team for any sport
right now so that was a little bit about
my sports
history you probably noticed that I used
the word soccer instead of
football now in countries like Canada
the
USA even
Australia and New Zealand I believe
people use the the word soccer instead
of football and in this podcast I will
use the word soccer cuz that is what
Canadians and Americans say and I am
Canadian by the way if you didn't know
now the interesting thing is that the
word soccer actually originated in
England and you might be thinking well
in England they say football I thought
Americans created this word soccer to
just be different but no soccer started
in England because it used to be called
association
football in England they had many
different types of football a lot of the
sports where you had a ball and you used
your feet were called football
so even sports like rugby were a type of
football so to separate what's now known
as soccer from the other footballs they
called it association football that was
the name of soccer and then they
shortened association football to a sock
football ass o footb football a sock
football sounded weird so they just
changed a sock football to socker so now
they had both soccer and football and in
the late 19th century and 20th
Century soccer or football made its way
to the
USA and at that time the USA already had
American football the one where they
have the ball and they throw it and they
tackle each
other so
America to avoid confusion they just
used that word
soccer and it stuck but most other
countries still use the word football I
know that story was a little bit
confusing but in a
nutshell there were many different type
of football in England what is now known
as soccer was called association
football because that was the type of
football it was and then they shortened
it to a sock football which then turned
into soccer and when the sport came to
the USA they just used that word soccer
to avoid confusion with American
football okay so there is the little
history lesson I hope it wasn't too
confusing so now let's play a little
game let's see if you know the five most
common Sports in Vietnam I did some
research on this and tried to figure out
the most common Sports and this is what
I found so what do you think the most
common sport in Vietnam is this one is
pretty easy if you guessed soccer then
you are correct now since soccer is so
popular in Vietnam let's talk about it
firstly soccer is played on a field this
field could have real grass or fake
grass and that fake grass is called Turf
and the professional soccer teams play
at a stadium but they still play on a
field so the field is in the stadium
each team has 11 players and they each
have their own positions including
goalkeepers midfielders Defenders and
forwards and of course each team has a
coach now in professional games there
are usually four ref referees and the
referees are there to make sure the
players don't break the rules and if
they do they decide how to penalize them
so soccer is the most common sport in
the world probably because you don't
need much to play it you just need a
ball and an area to play in you don't
even need a net you can just put two
things there and that is your net I
remember being young and we would make a
net just with like random things like a
can and then a plastic bag and that is
your net right and so for soccer and a
lot of other team sports we call the
competition between two teams a match so
it's like a soccer match but for some
other sports we can also call it a game
for example for American football uh
hockey basketball and baseball you will
often
hear Americans and Canadians call it a
game for example we'll say did you watch
the hockey game last night or did you
watch the basketball game but for other
sports like boxing tennis
rugby and for sports played in Europe
they will usually say match for example
did you watch the football match or the
rugby match yesterday was crazy so for
these matches they can usually end in
three ways either one side will win
will'll lose or it will be a draw so for
example if Vietnam plays a football
match and they win you could say Vietnam
won the football match but if you want
to say that Vietnam
defeated another team we often use the
word beat so to beat and to defeat mean
the same thing but to beat is more
natural and is more common so for
example you could say Spain beat England
in the Euro 2024 Championship or if you
want to say it the other way around we
use the verb lost to for example England
lost to Spain in the Euro 2024
Championship okay so that was a lot
about soccer we spent a lot of time
talking about soccer just because it is
so popular so now let's move to the
number two most common sport in Vietnam
do you know what it is I'll give you
three
seconds two one the second most common
sport in Vietnam is badminton badminton
is really popular because again you
don't need much to play it you need a
racket a shuttlecock and if you want you
can use a net and when you go around
Vietnam you see people playing
badminton in so many places like in
Parks or on the street for example all
they need to do is attach a net to two
trees and then that's a SP SP where you
can play badminton so personally I love
badminton I think it's a really fun game
it's not too difficult okay so now let's
move to the third most popular sport in
Vietnam which
is table tennis all right so table
tennis can also be called pingpong and
it's popular all around Vietnam Vietnam
is also pretty good at it there are a
lot of Vietnamese players in
international tournaments so they are
able to compete on the
intern on the international stage for
table tennis you simply need a table
with a net and two paddles some people
call them rackets but I think it makes
more sense to call it a paddle and also
of course you need a pingpong ball or a
table tennis ball all right so let's
move to number four the fourth most
popular sport in Vietnam
is volleyball so there are two main
types of volleyball there is indoor
volleyball and there is beach volleyball
that you can play
outside because on the beach you can
dive you can fall
and you're not going to get hurt unlike
falling on
concrete and so actually Vietnam is very
good at volleyball too the men and the
women's team regularly compete in the
international
tournaments and I saw in a news article
not too long ago that the women's team
came third in a pretty big championship
I I can't remember the name of the
championship but they came third I think
right
behind uh Czech Republic who came first
and Puerto Rico I think Puerto Rico who
came second but the point is is that
Vietnam is also very good at volleyball
and so number five the fifth most
popular sport
is basketball so basketball is a sport
that's growing pretty fast in Vietnam uh
especially among the young population
I'm sure many of you when you see the
basketball courts the public basketball
courts in some areas like in the in the
VIN holes
Apartments you'll
see the vast majority of the players are
young kids and so basketball ball has
become very popular amongst uh the young
crowd and in Vietnam there is a
basketball association called the VBA
the Vietnam Basketball
Association this is a league that has
six teams including the Hanoi buffalos
uh the Saigon heat uh the Nang dolphins
and three other teams and for for
basketball again you don't need too much
you need a flat and hard surface like
not grass but concrete a basketball net
and a basketball there are a few other
sports that are worth mentioning oops
that was my phone like Billiards so
Billiards is a broad term for sports
played with the Q normally a lot of
native speakers will call it pool so if
it's the game with the table with the
holes then we call it pool but there's
also the game with no holes that they
play in Vietnam and that is called carum
uh it's quite popular I've never played
it it looks pretty hard but yeah all
right guys so now let's do the sports
quiz five questions question number
one which country won the FIFA World Cup
in
2018 a
Brazil B
Germany C
France or D
Argentina 5
Seconds the country that won is C France
all right let's go to question number
two in which sport do players use a
racket to hit a shuttlecock over a net a
tennis B badminton C
squash or D table
tennis now you can pause
it if you need to
think the answer is B badminton okay
question number three which athlete is
known for winning eight gold medals in a
single Olympic Games a Usain Bolt b
Michael Phelps C Carl Lewis or D Mark
Spitz pause if you need to think the
answer is B Michael
Phelps all right we have two two more
questions if you got some of them right
good job if you got all of them right
fantastic if you got none of them right
at least you're
trying so number four which sport is
known as the fastest game on
Ice a figure
skating B
curling C ice
hockey or D
speed skate speed skating
sorry okay the answer is ice hockey that
is the national sport of Canada it is
the sport we're good at it is the
fastest game on Ice question number five
last question what is the maximum score
a gymnast can achieve in a single
routine
a 10 points B 50
points C 100 points or D 20
points the answer
is a 10
points all right guys so that was the
sports quiz um I hope you enjoyed it I
hope you enjoyed the entire podcast so
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