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SPORTS

In England, two popular sports are cricket and football. You can play cricket with a bat and a ball.

Level: A2 · 59 sentences

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  1. In England, two popular sports are cricket and football.
  2. You can play cricket with a bat and a ball.
  3. There are two teams and in each team there are 11 players.
  4. People play cricket outside and on the green grass.
  5. You can play cricket with your friends
  6. at a park on the grass.
  7. It is very exciting and you need to run very fast.
  8. Other countries like Australia, Sri Lanka,
  9. South Africa and India play cricket too.
  10. Football or Soccer in the United States is also popular.
  11. Children and adults play it at school,
  12. in the park, or on a football pitch.
  13. You can play football with a ball and a goal post.
  14. There are 11 players in a football team.
  15. In England, there are a lot of famous football teams like Liverpool,
  16. Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Aston Villa.
  17. I love practicing sports.
  18. When I was a child, I did ballet and I played badminton.
  19. Some people say that ballet or dancing is not a sport,
  20. but I think that they are sports.
  21. I think that dancing is beautiful and fun.
  22. I like dancing to classical music.
  23. Badminton is also fun to play.
  24. You need a racket and a shuttlecock, not a ball, to play.
  25. It's similar to tennis, but I prefer badminton.
  26. What sports do you like?
  27. One sport that I don't like is basketball.
  28. You can play basketball with a ball and a basket.
  29. I'm not very tall
  30. and I'm not very good at throwing the ball,
  31. so I'm not good at playing basketball.
  32. Another sport that I don't like is golf.
  33. Golf is very slow and long,
  34. so I don't think that it is fun or exciting.
  35. You can play golf with a golf ball and a golf club.
  36. What sports don't you like?
  37. Some sports that I haven't tried are rugby and horse riding.
  38. I have never tried these sports
  39. so I don't know if I like them.
  40. I think... that I won't like rugby
  41. because you need to push the other players.
  42. Also, you need to be strong to play this sport.
  43. I think that I will like horse riding
  44. because I love animals. Horses are beautiful animals.
  45. My friends say that horse riding is fun and exciting.
  46. Some sports that I want to practice
  47. in the future are surfing and windsurfing.
  48. I love the sea and I love swimming in the ocean.
  49. I think that they are great sports.
  50. I think that the ocean, the wind
  51. and the sunshine are very relaxing.
  52. When I go on holiday, I want to try surfing and windsurfing.
  53. To do windsurfing, you need a board and a sail
  54. but to do surfing you only need a board
  55. What sport do you want to try?
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