Next, what is your favorite sport?

Okay, for the who I’ve chosen to list people that are related to the sport that I like. For example, my dad, my friend Wilma and my college friends.

For the what, I’ve decided to list different things regarding basketball. For example, watched him play, played one-on-one, and played on a team. Now, something that is different about this example is there is a connection between the first one, between the second one and also between the last one.

So, for example, my dad what? I watched him play. My friend Wilma what? I played one-on-one with her. My college friends what? I played on a team with them. So as we move forward, there will still be a connection.

Let’s keep going. For when I’ve listed when this happened. For example as a child I watched my dad play. As kids and now I played basketball or I still play one-on-one with my friend Wilma and also four years, so I played on a team with my college friends for four years.

Okay, let’s keep going. Where? At an outdoor court, at school and even at a college gym. Now, for why I decided to list three reasons why I like basketball. For example, I’m an athlete, I think it’s good exercise and it’s a fast-paced game. Okay, now let’s talk about it. My favorite sport is basketball. It is a good form of exercise and it is also a fast-paced game. So, being that I am an athlete, I really enjoy it.

Now, let’s look at one of the patterns within this sentence. Now, in the third sentence we see a pattern so being that I am. Now, this pattern is used when we wanna show proof or provide evidence for something we’re talking about. For example, so being that I am an athlete, I really enjoy it. Well, this is the proof or even the reason why I would like basketball.

So, for example, let’s say I am talking about being an English teacher. Well, I could say this. So being that I am an American, I teach English to students. Well, of course, since I’m American I speak English which gives me a reason for being able to teach English. Okay, let’s continue. As a child, I used to watch my dad play basketball with his friends at an outdoor court.

Now, you notice that I actually included more than one of the Ws in this sentence. My dad, outdoor court, so I included who and also where. So now, let’s look at the pattern with this sentence. The pattern is I used to. Okay, now, I used to is used when we want to talk about something that we did in the past. Something we did in the past but we don’t do anymore.

For example, I used to study Spanish. Or I used to like going to the movies. Okay, let’s keep going. When I got old enough to play, I started to play one-on-one with my friend Wilma. Now, let’s look at the sentence pattern really quickly. When I got old enough, I. Okay, so this is kind of like a couple pattern, let’s look at it down here.

So what’s happening is I’m talking about a period of time plus what I did. So, for example, I could say when I got old enough, I started to learn how to play the piano. Okay, let’s keep going to the next sentence. We played basketball at school almost every day as kids and we sill play each other now, okay?

Now, the patterns in this sentence are very simple, so let’s keep going with the next sentence. Then, when I got to college, I played on a team with my college friends for about four years. Okay, now, there’s one pattern in this sentence that I want us to look at closely.

Here’s the pattern. For about. Now, let’s take this on this side and let’s look at it. Now, we use for about when we want to guess a period of time. Guess or average, give an average amount of time. For example, I can say, “Oh, I have studied English for about two and a half years.” It’s not an exact time, but I’m guessing, I’m giving an overall amount of time, okay? Giving an average. Or I can say, “Hmm, I’ve been here for about an hour,” okay? So we use for about when we’re guessing or if we’re trying to give an average amount of time, okay?

And the last sentence, here we go. We mainly played in the college gym. It was great. Okay, one last pattern here. We mainly. Now, for this one, this is when you want to say something that you did a majority of the time. So we’re gonna say a majority. For example, let’s see we mainly eat ice cream on Sundays.

Well, the majority of the time we eat ice cream on Sundays. Or we mainly go to school every day, so majority. Or you could even say usually, okay? This is a good expression to use, a good pattern to use.

So we mainly go there after school, something we do a majority of the time or usually, okay? This is how you answer and talk about this topic and these are some patterns.