Unit 8. Do you Like Sports. Focus on Speaking. (pp. 209-210)

Okay, so here in Ukraine, it's definitely football, like, for sure. Everyone is crazy about it. When there's a big match, the whole town is glued to the TV.

Sometimes I play a bit of soccer with my friends after school, you know, just kicking around. And I tried out for the volleyball team.

Hmm, probably stuff you can do inside, right? Like, basketball in the gym, or maybe swimming in a pool. Some people are into indoor climbing all the time. Oh, and video games are totally a sport now, right? You can play those whenever.

Everyone around here is obsessed with Dynamo Kyiv. So yeah, them, I guess. My older brother is a fanatic, so I hear about them nonstop.

Summer is all about swimming with my friends at the lake. That's the best. Winter? I guess maybe sledding if there's enough snow. It's kinda fun for a bit. Mostly, I just wanna stay inside where it's warm.

Definitely football, like I said. Everyone talks about it. And then probably those big international esports tournaments, some of my friends are really into that.

Tons! Football, basketball, volleyball, swimming, track and field... the usual school stuff. For games, there's, like, all the video games – Fortnite, that's huge right now. Then there are board games like Monopoly, and card games...

Okay, so like, a sport is usually more physical, you know, running and stuff, with rules and teams and trying to win. A game can be anything, even just sitting around playing cards or a board game. So, all sports are games, but not all games are sports, right? My English teacher explained it once, it kinda made sense.

Ugh, history is so boring. I think the first ones were in Greece, like, way back. The last ones... wasn't it in Japan, like, recently? Tokyo something?

Um... isn't it also football? I think I saw that somewhere online. Or maybe cricket? That sounds kinda British.

Well, there's Andriy Shevchenko, he's like, a legend in football. Everyone knows him. And some of the boxers, like Usyk, are pretty famous too.

They, like, yell a lot. And cheer. And wave flags. They go crazy for their team. It looks pretty wild on TV.