Do vs Play Collocations: How to Choose the Right Word
Do vs Play Collocations: How to Choose the Right Word As you should know by now that different types of athletes have different titles. Someone who does judo is very different from someone who does baseball or someone who runs. Sometimes as an ESL student, you can easily fall into the trap of labeling every athlete a player. My new students do it a lot!They’ll maybe ask me, “do you play boxing?” I always retort quickly,”you don’t play boxing”; “boxing is a violent sport”: “you don’t play violent sports.” Because, in the Japanese language, everything is “shimasu” or play.sports-related. So, like I mentioned before, you’ll get questions from students, like, “do you play boxing/kendo/karate” and Even questions like “do you play ski/swimming/running.” I then have to go to my sports lesson. Gotta bust out my sports flashcards with the verbs written on top of each sports card, so they can quickly read and absorb the information. It takes some time to get them acclimated and into a routine of using different verbs for different sports. But, if they are serious,and want to learn, they make sure they absorb the information. So, as usual… Let’s Dive In #collocations #commoncollocations
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