India and England Play Cricket
印度與英格蘭進行板球比賽
Introduction
India and England played a cricket match. It rained, so the game stopped.
印度與英格蘭進行了一場板球比賽。因為下雨，比賽停止了。
Main Body
India played first. They scored 189 runs. Abhishek Sharma and Shreyas Iyer played very well. Then it rained hard. England did not play because of the rain.
印度先擊球，他們得到了 189 分。Abhishek Sharma 和 Shreyas Iyer 表現非常出色。隨後下起大雨，英格蘭隊因為下雨而未能參賽。
Some people are sad. A 15-year-old player, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, is not in the team. The coach and captain want to keep the old players. They think the young player needs more time to learn.
有些人感到遺憾。一名 15 歲的球員 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 未能進入隊伍。總教練和隊長希望保留資深球員，他們認為年輕球員需要更多時間學習。
England has a new leader. His name is Harry Brook. England wants to play better now. They lost a big game in March and want to win again.
英格蘭有一位新領導者，名叫 Harry Brook。英格蘭現在希望提高表現。他們在三月份輸掉了一場大賽，因此渴望再次獲勝。
Conclusion
The score is 0-0. The next game is in Manchester.
比分為 0-0。下一場比賽在曼徹斯特。
Vocabulary Learning
🕒 Talking about the Past
In the story, we see words like played, stopped, and scored. These words tell us that the action is finished.
The Simple Rule: To talk about yesterday or last week, we usually add -ed to the action word.
- Play Played
- Stop Stopped
- Score Scored
🚫 How to say 'No' in the Past
Look at this sentence: "England did not play."
When we want to say something didn't happen, we use did not + the normal action word.
Watch out!
We do NOT say did not played.
Correct did not play ✅