Sports

Miss Paulina Lobos A.

Vocabular

y

People and places

• Captain

• Coach

Jorge Sampaoli

• Fans

• Players-Team

• Referee

•Spectators

• Stadium

• Sports hall

Places

• Court

Basketball court

Tennis court

• Pitch

Rugby

Hockey

Football

•Pool

Swimming Diving

•Track

Athletics

•Circuit

Formula 1

Motorcycling

• Course

• Slope

Ski

Definitions

• Warm up: To prepare for an athletic event by exercising, stretching, or practicing for a short time beforehand.

• Train: to do exercises and prepare for a specific purpose.

Play• Basketball• Baseball• Golf• Tennis• Soccer/Football• Chess• Hockey• Volleyball

Play is generally used with team sports and those sports that need a ball or similar object (puck, disc, shuttlecock...). Also, those activities in which two people or teams compete against each other.

Go

• Swimming• Hiking• Bowling• Fishing• Skiing• Jogging• Running• Cycling

Go is used with activities and sports that end in -ing. The verb go here implies that we go somewhere to practice this sport.

Do

• Karate• Judo• Kung fu• Aerobics• Ballet• Yoga• Gymnastics

Do is used with recreational activities and with individual, non-team sports or sports in which a ball is not used, like martial arts, for example: do a crossword puzzle.

Some exceptions to the rules:

• You use do with two activities that end in

-ing: do boxing and do body-building, because they don't imply moving along as the other activities ending in -ing.

• Golf: if there is an idea of competition, you use the verb play. However, you can say go golfing if you do it for pleasure: Tiger Woods plays golf. We'll go golfing at the weekend. 

References

• http://inmadom-myenglishclass.blogspot.com/2013/01/collocations-do-play-or-go-with-sports.html

• New English file intermediate Clive Oxenden - Christina Latham-Koenig - Oxford University Press - 2011