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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

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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

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
matches /ˈmætʃɪz/ B1	noun - Competitions or games played to determine a winner.
usually /ˈjuːʒuəli/ A2	adverb - Generally or normally.
win /wɪn/ A2	verb - To be successful in a competition.
draw /drɔː/ A2	noun - A result in a game where neither side wins.
football /ˈfʊtbɔːl/ A2	noun - A team sport played with a ball.
soccer /ˈsɒkər/ B1	noun - Another name for football, especially in the US and Canada.
popular /ˈpɒpjʊlə/ B1	adjective - Liked or enjoyed by many people.
stadium /ˈsteɪdiəm/ B1	noun - A large structure for watching sports.
players /ˈpleɪərz/ A2	noun - People who participate in a game or sport.
positions /pəˈzɪʃənz/ B1	noun - A place or role taken by a player in a game.
referees /ˌrefəˈriːz/ B1	noun - People who enforce the rules in a game.
rules /ruːlz/ A2	noun - Regulations or principles governing a game.
competition /ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃən/ B2	noun - An event where people compete.
lazy /ˈleɪzi/ A2	adjective - Unwilling to work or use energy.
Muay Thai /muːaɪ ˈtaɪ/ B2	noun - A combat sport from Thailand.
compete /kəmˈpiːt/ B1	verb - To take part in a competition.
originated /əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtɪd/ B2	verb - To have come into existence.
shortened /ˈʃɔːrtənd/ B1	verb - Made shorter.

Key Grammar Structures

• 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

  ➔ Conditional sentences (zero conditional)

  ➔ The structure 'If + present simple, present simple' is used to describe general truths or habits. Here, it explains the possible outcomes of matches.

• if Vietnam plays a football match and they win you could say Vietnam won the football match

  ➔ Second conditional

  ➔ The structure 'If + past simple, would + base verb' is used for hypothetical situations. Here, it suggests a possible outcome if Vietnam wins.

• they called it association football that was the name of soccer

  ➔ Past simple passive voice

  ➔ The passive voice is used to emphasize the action rather than the doer. Here, 'they called it' focuses on the naming of the sport.

• I did some research on this and tried to figure out the most common Sports

  ➔ Past simple with 'did' for emphasis

  ➔ Using 'did' in the past simple adds emphasis to the action. Here, it highlights the effort put into the research.

• I remember being young and we would make a net just with like random things

  ➔ Past continuous with 'would' for habitual actions

  ➔ The past continuous with 'would' is used to describe habitual actions in the past. Here, it describes a repeated activity in childhood.