Um sorry, James Ming.

Vin, I just saw the new Batman movie.

So depending on when you see this, you might recognize his voice.

I think I've gone crazy.

What I haven't.

And today what I'd like us to work on because I want, you know, So you and I were always together, right?

So you and I want us to work on something about playing right now.

You might hear a little bit of music because in Toronto, we have a festival is called Cattle Bana.

Or, if I recall, rightly now is that Toronto Dominion Caribbean Festival.

But what the most important thing you have to remember is they play music often.

Students Well, you know, often we make mistakes, right When we speak and we're learning English, we use some things incorrectly.

So today I want to talk about what do you like to do on what I mean by that is playing often when we do things, we, uh we play sports and whatnot.

What?

Not in English just means whatever.

Okay, but a lot of students make a mistake because they think play in English is the same as their in their language or, you might think, plays the same in your language.

But in English.

We have several different words for kind of playing.

Okay, so I want to go over that today and I hope you'll be.

You'll learn a lot.

You'll be very clear when you're done.

So let's go to the board.

So what do you like to play?

I erased it.

But play is here because play in English means play games or sports these air, usually fun activities.

I'm having fun.

It's not serious.

Okay, so when I play, I play sports.

Some of you play soccer.

Sorry, Soccer in North American is what you would call football football with the leg.

Right kick.

All right, so soccer or baseball, especially if you're Japanese and I think in the Mexico U plays baseball.

But we play baseball means to have fun in the activity, not be serious.

We also play other games, so sports.

I play sports.

I play games.

These games are things like chess, right?

Or some people play cards, solitaire.

So you play a game for fun.

Okay, now is the 21st century.

Many of you play video games, aims aims.

Right call of duty where you get to pretend to be a soldier you're playing?

Yes.

So I've got Starcraft.

Call of duty portal.

Some of you might be DDR.

Yeah, if you're from those countries, you'll go.

Yes, DDR fun.

It's a game.

Something you play to have fun.

Okay, so that's why we say play now.

The opposite of play is to actually compete.

Competes comes is a verb to mean to do to find a winner.

It's not.

It's and can be fun, but what we do, is it serious?

Okay, it's much more serious.

It's not just you and a friend going outside and kicking a ball and running on laughing.

You're serious because you train now.

We have words up here and I'll explain Train in a second.

But opposite of playing is competing.

That is when one or more people are working hard to see who is the best person now.

In this case, we have two things.

When we compete, we either have amateur or professional.

An amateur is someone who does the sports like the Olympics.

Right now it's 2000 and 12 but we have an Olympics.

There are many people across the world competing to see which country has the best athletes.

And an athlete is a person who practices sports.

So they're physically body is strong.

Okay, now, those air amateur, they don't get any money.

No money.

So amateur can mean you are a high high level in sports.

But you do not get money.

Sometimes you pay to play, so you pay to play.

Professional sports are different.

Maybe you've heard of Michael Jordan.

Maybe.

Okay.

Or you've heard of David Beckham?

Yes.

Um, or Mike Tyson.

That's really old.

Okay, but if you've heard of those their professional, they get money.

So when people aren't playing, if they are high level, we call them amateur athletes or we say professional where money isn't.

Now, how do you get to go from playing two competing?

Well, you have to train train?

Yeah.

A lot of students go.

I play I You know, I I practice soccer, and we're like, What does that mean?

It means nothing to us.

Because for us, you're either playing or competing.

And the difference between the two is training.

What do I mean by training?

Well, training.

You need to get to go from playing to compete, you need to be stronger.

Strong, Okay?

Because train means work hard.

I train, I work hard.

And one way to train is to run right?

You run that gets your cardio cardio means heart.

Your heart on your lungs get stronger, they get better so you could doom or work.

So you trained to do more work.

Okay, Now, sometimes at your work at your job, you train because you could do more work.

Wow.

Sports and work.

Yeah.

Okay, now, strong, strong fourth day in Spanish.

No muscle.

I have nothing.

That's why I wear big shirts.

Okay, But when you get strong, you work out.

Lift weights.

Uh huh.

Uh, sorry.

Okay.

You work out to get strong and flexible.

Yes, you get you can bend and move.

So we trained to get strong, fast and flexible on.

We must work hard.

So if you want to go from playing two competing, you must train.

But if you train and you don't practice, you won't be very good.

So we need to practice.

What do you mean?

Well practicing.

We practice to get better skills.

Actually, first we practice toe, learn skills.

You learn to do something and you keep practicing it so you can make it automatic.

That means you don't have to think.

And then we keep practicing to make the skills even better.

Okay, so if you want to learn how to do karate A You have to do this many, many times.

First, you go on, then you practice to your hands straight.

Okay, then better.

Wow.

Yes.

You need to practice to learn new skills.

100% new and get better at those skills.

And finally, we say study What is studying?

Well, different things.

For instance, games.

You'll notice.

I said games and sports you play.

But if you need to get a special special skill which requires lots of work and usually that includes mawr of your mind we talk about studying because you study martial arts study.

You do practice to get better.

But you study you do not play.

Martial arts and martial arts include karate.

Yeah, movie tie.

Yeah.

And mm.

A whatever.

Okay, so we study martial arts.

We also study like in school for music and art.

For example, the piano you study it is physical because you use your hands.

But it is mental because you use your mind so we must study.

You must study ideas and then you can practice to get better.

Okay, If you get very good, you can compete as an amateur or professional.

Training is required, which means working very hard.

But if you don't wanna work hard and you just want it to be fun, just play playing.

It's fun.

So this is what I said.

What would you like to do?

Mystery.

I'm sorry.

I almost forgot.

He's been trying to play soccer, but the ball is a little too big for him, you know?

But it's since the world is his world.

But if you want to learn more about his world and you want to get better and I would like to see you again because you know, we work well together, I think.

Yeah.

Okay.

I would like you to go to Well, Uh huh.

W w w dot Yes.

I still say it ing as an English vivid as in video dot com, where you can complete the quiz that comes with this and learn more about what would you like to do?

We've got grammar We've got vocabulary.

We've got slang.

We've got idioms.

We've got understanding.

Well, you get the idea coming back, we'll play some more.

OK, bye.