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I'm Beth.
And I'm Neil.
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Hi Neil, how are you?
How was your weekend?
Hi Beth, I'm very well.
My weekend was packed full of sport.
I watched a football match.
Yeah, I watched my local team playing at their stadium.
Did you win?
Yeah.
Well done.
Well, today we're talking all about sports.
We're talking about watching sports, whether that's on TV or live.
And when you watch sports live, you go there in person to actually see it happen in real time.
So, Beth, do you enjoy watching sports?
I do.
It depends on the sport.
So I really love watching gymnastics.
So if there are national championships or world championships or the Olympics, then I really enjoy watching the gymnastics.
And I normally watch it on TV, but I have been to watch it live as well.
And yeah, I really like that.
Is it better to watch sport live? as in at the stadium or on TV?
Actually, with gymnastics, I think it's better on TV.
And that's because when you're in a stadium true, the atmosphere is amazing with the crowd, but you can't really see the events properly because there are.
Gymnastics is a sport where there's lots of individual events happening and you can't watch them all at once.
I think you're going to say that you prefer watching live sport in person at the stadium.
Yeah.
So, for example, something happened in the game that I saw and I
I didn't have any idea what it was.
Is this at the weekend?
Yeah.
And I only found out why a particular goal was not allowed when I read it on the website later.
But I think that's great, because when you're there at the ground, you're in the atmosphere and just totally concentrating on this thing.
I think...
I think having the crowd there and they're all making noise, you feel like you're in a big group.
The atmosphere, you can't beat and it's definitely not the same at home.
It's like a social event, because you meet friends family, go with the kids and you have a good time all together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is there any game that you have seen that really you remember very well because of a particular reason?
Yes, I've been lucky.
I've seen quite a lot of really exciting international matches.
And I saw a really exciting cricket match a couple of years ago with England against Australia, which is a big rivalry.
And the drama is incredible because he didn't know who was going to win until the last minute.
And all of the supporters were going crazy when eventually England won that game.
Yeah, that's good.
I think in those events where it's so close. it's like, it's nail biting.
You're literally there like, ah, who is going to win?
It could go to that team.
It could go to the other team.
And yeah, definitely a lot of drama.
Yeah.
So that cricket match I was watching was so nail biting.
Um, It was very exciting and it made me feel very nervous.
You can imagine when you're nervous you bite your nails, and that's why we say something is nail biting.
And then when it's over, there's a really great feeling of relief if your team won.
Exactly.
I was going to say, if you win, yes.
I was actually in the same situation this summer and England lost the game.
Oh, yeah, not so good.
No.
OK, let's recap the language we heard during the conversation.
We heard crowd, which is a large group of people, and we can use it to describe the people at a sports match.
For example, there was a huge crowd at the football match.
We had atmosphere, which is the general feeling or mood of everyone at an event.
For example, at the gymnastics, there was a really exciting atmosphere.
We heard drama and there's often drama at sports matches because unexpected things can happen.
And we can describe a sports event as nail-biting if it's stressful and exciting.
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