Do you like playingsports? What's your favorite(最爱的) sport?My favorite sport is football. Football is also many young people's favoritesport. English people call it soccer. Soccer is quite different from Americanfootball. Do you know the differences (不同) betweenthem?

A soccer ball isround, but an American football is oval, like an egg. Soccer teams have elevenplayers on the field. American football teams have forty players, but only elevenplayers on the field at one time.

In a soccer team, thegoalkeeper(守门员) tries to stop(阻止) the ball from going into the goal. He's the only player to stopand pick up(捡起) the ball with hands.

American footballplayers can catch the ball with their hands. They can run with it and throw(扔) it to other players.

Both of them are veryinteresting. They can make you healthy and strong.