Get ahead of the pack with these common English idioms that come from language used in sports, then attempt the free quiz to test your knowledge. The idioms covered are: ahead of the pack, cover all the bases, jump the gun, on the mark, off the mark, out of left field.
This video is very good. from which you learned of this, I want to learn the language, no more What is your best video at all. I’m interested in is you want to learn this
nizam
I do not understand how and when to use ” I have done”(pres. perf.) and I did. Please help me!
tangam
You are a great teacher! Thank you very much for your explanations
vilainpetitcrapaud
You’re welcome!
Alex
+1!)
Rekhtin Eugene ZP-UA
+1!
Rekhtin Eugene ZP-UA
I’ve learned a lot from EngVid how to handle my students in a better way :) with better knowledge, of course.
Dian
Thanks for the lesson! On the mark is very useful!
ipou
Many thanks, Alex! It looks like you’re ahead of the pack!
TeacherIgor
thanks a lot! I am looking forward to hearing from many other idioms soon!
cristina
i really cover all the bases with quiz i got
6 correct out of 6.
“Your score: 100.00 You got 6 correct out of 6.!!!!
thanks professor Alex
bigboy85
very good
Faisal NAUMAN
THX for this beautiful idioms
narrek
Thanks a million Alex for your wonderful lesson. You really covered all the bases. I think by following your lesson I’ll be ahead of the pack.
donia
Exactly. :)
Alex
hey! i love your comment!
thuxuan
And I love you)))) Thenx for lesson)
Rekhtin Eugene ZP-UA
you r on the mark alex,thanks,and u covered all of the bases!
honye
this lesson is very good for me thank you very much .
maira and naveed
hello sir this lesson is very good for us
thank you very much us.
maira and naveed
Thanks Alex for this interesting lesson.
Soso
thank you very much
very good lesson
abdelslem
really nice lesson! Thanks a million! =)
sveta_5018
Good teacher.
magdamiriam
thank you. excellent lesson !!!!!
mahbub
HI I WOULD LIKE TO IMPROVE MY WRITING .IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT YOU CAN CORRECT MY WRITING .I HAVE 6 IN WRITING IN IELTS ,I NEED TO GET 7.CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME
4466
I’m sorry, but I do not do private online lessons at the moment. There are many resources online, as well as the official IELTS books, that can help you to improve your English writing.
Alex
Thanks for your reply
dhanya
You covered all the bases sir Alex!
katherine12
it is great i got 5out of6
thinku teacher Alex
meseret L D
very good, I like, good teacher
Luis Miguel
VERY GOOD
AHMAD
So glad I am to be here. I’ll use here from now.
Sababoy.tk
Teacher I have a question,,,
in this sentence:I really didn’t like his opinions on the movie. I felt they were completely off the mark…. Since you are talking in plural, was not supposed to be ( I didn’t like their opinions? please let me know thanks,,,,,when you say “they were” you refer to people or opinions? thanls
Charlie Stud
Lot of Thanks to Alex…. your lessons are useful to me… i hope it will be usefuel for the persons who are like me… thhnk you sir…
dhariniv
Great job.
rios
hello im majda from moroco i love english i thaink your websit is very usfull thank you very much for your eforte
majda
Hey Majda Im aYoub From Morocco 2 xDeey Ur right this Teatcher is Great
ayoub morocco
I really enjoy your explanations. They are excellent, and I really undestand. For sure I will continue watching your videos. Go ahead. You are doing an outstanding job, and you are helping lots of people to learn. Thanks a lot.
Xinia Barquero
Thaaaaaaaank Youuuuuu a LoooooTTT
ayoub morocco
You coverd all the bases You are a head of pack
xDeey
am I right lol??
ayoub morocco
you are amaze
thank you so much for your lessons
you are so nice to help us
i can’t thank you enough
sama
Thank you you examples are very interesting and help me to unerstand the idioms meanings
Best regards
Abdolfatah Mostafa
You covered all the bases, sir Alex!(2)
Rafael
Good strategy to make lessons understandable
luis fernando
I just wanna to ask is ther any website you can talk engkish through it
student
Thanks)
kaitonekura
I have learnt something, English is a very diffucult langage.
I’ am french so it was very good to leanr smt with a good teacher who speacks very well
Voila, je conseillerai ce site à mes amies pour qu’elles les consultent.
Merci encore et bonne continuation.
lola
alex is a good lecturer
suresh6377
nice idioms thanks alot
alraeesi
hi Alex! Thanx a lot for the lesson. I learnt a lot.
But still I have a question in my mind: Why are these idioms called “sport” idioms ?
alreut
Hello Alex, is easy to learn with you, thanks for the examples.
Yuridia
mr. alex firstly thank u for all your useful lessons and you are successful , but i wanna a favour of you i have a broblem with syllables ( stress or unstressed) where the stressed syllables and and how i determine them >>> plz if u have a material send it to me or prepare a vedio lesson for us a bout this subject >>
mrosama
thanks a lot.it is very useful for me to learn such difficult idioms ^^
mangcui
Go on in this way Alex!
Thanks a lot and greetings from Milan.
angelo
a very nice lecture
kedar
to be out of left field,I have a qustion:
when I’m asking ppl how did you find this place some of them will reply: lovely place.
even though I wanted to know how they find the direction to get there…
what makes that miss understanding in here?
thanks.
Arvish
Thanks for taking this English quiz! Your score: 100.00 You got 6 correct out of 6.’
I think i am a ..
Ayoub_From_Morocco
Dude you are awesome and the lesson was so good and helpful for me, thank you so much
saadsamy
thanks for your explanations.
Jairo Angel
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery nice
ahmed
my words can not express how useful your lessons are.
May god bless you !
AFAOH
I liked your class :-) .
jovial
great teaching
kamran jappa
hello alex. you are ahead of the pack teaching inglish and cover all the bases thank you God bless.
orlando
ALEX CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THIS WORD. “CERTAIN”, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
orlando
This quiz was a piece of cake, I did it very well. bye 4 now.
Efrain
thank you very much for this helpful information. it is very helpful resource for english learners. i just can’t find word to express my huge gratitude to yous such a wondreful opportunity you provide us with.
you are great teacher! i”ll be ahead of the pack.
sara
hello alex ,I don’t understand this video because I can’t listen , can you write on that for me to understand? (maybe When I write some words will be wrong because my poor writing skills)
phuong1997
wow! this lesson is amazing!
yuliashopaholic
congratulations!!!!!!Alex, I´m a teacher, I learned a lot from you
Gloria
Well done
freemelia77
Wou, it’s owesome. your explanation clear as a bell. i’m gonna tell to my friends about all of your idioms. Thank you very much sir.
ary007
thanks alex
merkeb
Thanks sir alex, you’re on the mark.
carol
Thanks sir. You’re ahead of the pack in the field of teaching!
carol
thank you!
hapkido
Very nice lesson!! Idioms are the more difficult thing to understand and your explanations are very clear. Thanks!
milly
Thank you so much,you did cover all the bases, i like your lessons a lot.
anwwf
i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed more and moreeeeeee
of these idioms explanation by our genious teasher ALEX
lamiaa mohammad
thank you so much
waelc130
Thanks so much! Alex. It’s so new to me. This is the first time i hear it. But i can understand all!
Nice day! Our teacher!
thuxuan
yes!!!!! i got the quiz…..its good,, very informative…
totong
Hi, here is one of your students from the Czech Republic! A very nice job (actually – great!)!!! I will listen to it again many times in order to keep it in mind and tomorrow and the next week :) and then remember it forever and ever. :D I also did not know a thing from those idioms before but the explanation is clear, used in useful realistic situations. Thank you so so much:) Love youuuuu :D :D
zuzanka
Hi Alex and everyone! Alex, thank you for the idioms and your clear explanations–they made the idioms easy to remember!
Alice
Thank you, Alex! You are the best teacher here. Its a big pleasure to watch and listen your lessons.
Sophie
i would like to think all the teacher on engvid
Ramar
83,3% no so bed…But really how often can I hear these ideoms in English speech?..Is it useful?..)Thanks any way! I have very good time with your videos)
Any Russia
thanks Alex your lecture so useful I took some information from ur lecture
aram
very informative and very well presented. thanks a lot.
Brijendra Singh
Wow, this lesson was awesome!! I really enjoyed it. Thanks Alex, you’re a good teacher.
Johan
very nice
nahro
great teaher Thank you .thank you .thank you
samire
Lately I´ve learned how to make alot of money.I´m now ahead of the pack
Valdecy
thanks very much about all this.and every second i listen to your lesson .i think you are my best teacher bye
hamid
thank you Alex!
tissaoui
MY NAME IS GEORGE AND I AM FROM GREECE.ALEX,YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER.I WAS WONDWE=ERING IF YOU COULD GIVE ME ADVICE IABOUT LISTENING TEST IN MICHIGAN PROFECIENCY.THANK YOU
GEORGE DARGANAKIS
I like very much engvid. I’m autodicdacte so ths site is very useful for me.
vilainpetitcrapaud
It is an interesting lesson .
khalidmfy
Of all the sites which i have tried , i can say : engvid is ahead of the pack in field of learning English .
Have i used the idiom correctly ?
khalidmfy
Nice!
valbrun
GREAT, thank you teacher you made me know what I never imagine to learn one a day.
fawzi
Hi teacher Alex! These idioms are not usually learnt in a regular classroom! Yet, I believe them very useful when it comes to understanding spoken English. I got 5 out of 6, it seems that for me, question 2 on the quiz was out of left field! Thank you.
jafcru12
hello sir alex..I learned my school about the sport idioms but hey are a bit complicated so I didn’t understand…can you gıve me some examples about this ıdıoms to make me clear..here are these..1]BE ON THE BALL..2)MOVE THE GOALPOSTS..3)A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD 4)A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME 5]SCORE AN OWN GOAL 6)START THE BALL ROLLING…THANK YOU FROM NOW:)
sevdiye kuzu
thanks so much
soufiane
hii Alex,
Learning english idioms is really a fun..But the most important thing is to utilize them in appropriate situation..It does not make sense that someone using them in a context where they are not desired..
sona sharma
Hey Alex, I really liked your sessions. I sincerely appreciate your endeavor to shape English in countries like India where there is hunger to learn it but there are only handful of scholars in it making it suffer the consequence for being at the receiving end. I really admire your way of teaching – specially the way you maintain rate of speech and exaggeration technique for better understanding. May god bless you with more and more knowledge and happiness to share the same. bye now.
learnenglish115
thanks alot mr.Alex
hazara1
thanks alot .
mr.Alex
hazara1
Alex, thanks.
One question regarding on/off the mark. How rude/tart is this expression? Can it be used in a official communication (e.g. among colleagues)?
zloy
Sir Alex,could you please give us more English Idioms.Thanks… God bless you.
ritz
great lesson.thank you!
kentiya
Great job dude !!!
beppez
You are a great teacher! Thank you very much!
nadja
THAN YOU EVER SO MUCH
VERY HELPFUL
HOZAN
Hi Alex:)
I just wanted to tell you that you are an amazing teacher:) It’s a real pleasure to watch you teaching and I can see that it’s what you really like doing. Your lessons are short but very instructive and it’s very easy to keep focused and keep up with what you’re saying. I liked you from the very first video and when I learned that you’re from Poland I understood why :) So anyway, thank you again and if you ever come to Poland, give me a heads up :):) Do zobaczenia i dziękuję :-)
cornelliee
nice and great lesson,thanks
rabbani
I like all sports.Thank you very much.It was right.
Zibi-Poland
great to know.
jan
You can just say short cut for the ‘on/off the mark’
on the mark -correct
off the mark – wrong.
cutecute
Hi, my name is Edinaldo. I live in Brazil(Rio de Janeiro) I found these english videos by chance when trying to improve my pratice of english. As next world cup and olympics games will be held here, I intend to learn it asap. Nice classes!
Edinaldo Pereira Dos Santos
Thank you Alex… you covered all the bases ;)
aida29
it is very useful . i benefit very much.
ahmed hassan
I love the way you express everything, very useful, thanks!
Patricia
Thank you alex, I really like subjects like this..!
Norbey
Great!
Mirza
Helpful lesson thanks
Rawa0a
Helpful lesson thanks
Rawa0a
good one.. how to keep them memorized?
aysha1
Thank you Alex! Nice lesson!
sgmmm
very very thanks you are really teacher …
basimhilal
you are a great teacher alex …really its most useful…
arafath
this lesson is se intersting
moezbesbes
Alex, could you load a video with more sports words and expressions such as “pass the ball”, throw the pass ahead of me, etc. I really liked this lesson. Best regards,
Aldo Rechy
Very nice and clear presentation. Thank you.
Abhi
Good JOB! TNX)
Rekhtin Eugene ZP-UA
Great! Thanks!
Jonathas Wilhem
Thanks!
shihai182
For him, whatever her girlfriend says is on the mark. For me, he is not being objective.
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141 COMMENTS
Nice good…
This video is very good. from which you learned of this, I want to learn the language, no more What is your best video at all. I’m interested in is you want to learn this
I do not understand how and when to use ” I have done”(pres. perf.) and I did. Please help me!
You are a great teacher! Thank you very much for your explanations
You’re welcome!
+1!)
+1!
I’ve learned a lot from EngVid how to handle my students in a better way :) with better knowledge, of course.
Thanks for the lesson! On the mark is very useful!
Many thanks, Alex! It looks like you’re ahead of the pack!
thanks a lot! I am looking forward to hearing from many other idioms soon!
i really cover all the bases with quiz i got
6 correct out of 6.
“Your score: 100.00 You got 6 correct out of 6.!!!!
thanks professor Alex
very good
THX for this beautiful idioms
Thanks a million Alex for your wonderful lesson. You really covered all the bases. I think by following your lesson I’ll be ahead of the pack.
Exactly. :)
hey! i love your comment!
And I love you)))) Thenx for lesson)
you r on the mark alex,thanks,and u covered all of the bases!
this lesson is very good for me thank you very much .
hello sir this lesson is very good for us
thank you very much us.
Thanks Alex for this interesting lesson.
thank you very much
very good lesson
really nice lesson! Thanks a million! =)
Good teacher.
thank you. excellent lesson !!!!!
HI I WOULD LIKE TO IMPROVE MY WRITING .IS THERE ANY CHANCE THAT YOU CAN CORRECT MY WRITING .I HAVE 6 IN WRITING IN IELTS ,I NEED TO GET 7.CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME
I’m sorry, but I do not do private online lessons at the moment. There are many resources online, as well as the official IELTS books, that can help you to improve your English writing.
Thanks for your reply
You covered all the bases sir Alex!
it is great i got 5out of6
thinku teacher Alex
very good, I like, good teacher
VERY GOOD
So glad I am to be here. I’ll use here from now.
Teacher I have a question,,,
in this sentence:I really didn’t like his opinions on the movie. I felt they were completely off the mark…. Since you are talking in plural, was not supposed to be ( I didn’t like their opinions? please let me know thanks,,,,,when you say “they were” you refer to people or opinions? thanls
Lot of Thanks to Alex…. your lessons are useful to me… i hope it will be usefuel for the persons who are like me… thhnk you sir…
Great job.
hello im majda from moroco i love english i thaink your websit is very usfull thank you very much for your eforte
Hey Majda Im aYoub From Morocco 2 xDeey Ur right this Teatcher is Great
I really enjoy your explanations. They are excellent, and I really undestand. For sure I will continue watching your videos. Go ahead. You are doing an outstanding job, and you are helping lots of people to learn. Thanks a lot.
Thaaaaaaaank Youuuuuu a LoooooTTT
You coverd all the bases You are a head of pack
xDeey
am I right lol??
you are amaze
thank you so much for your lessons
you are so nice to help us
i can’t thank you enough
Thank you you examples are very interesting and help me to unerstand the idioms meanings
Best regards
You covered all the bases, sir Alex!(2)
Good strategy to make lessons understandable
I just wanna to ask is ther any website you can talk engkish through it
Thanks)
I have learnt something, English is a very diffucult langage.
I’ am french so it was very good to leanr smt with a good teacher who speacks very well
Voila, je conseillerai ce site à mes amies pour qu’elles les consultent.
Merci encore et bonne continuation.
alex is a good lecturer
nice idioms thanks alot
hi Alex! Thanx a lot for the lesson. I learnt a lot.
But still I have a question in my mind: Why are these idioms called “sport” idioms ?
Hello Alex, is easy to learn with you, thanks for the examples.
mr. alex firstly thank u for all your useful lessons and you are successful , but i wanna a favour of you i have a broblem with syllables ( stress or unstressed) where the stressed syllables and and how i determine them >>> plz if u have a material send it to me or prepare a vedio lesson for us a bout this subject >>
thanks a lot.it is very useful for me to learn such difficult idioms ^^
Go on in this way Alex!
Thanks a lot and greetings from Milan.
a very nice lecture
to be out of left field,I have a qustion:
when I’m asking ppl how did you find this place some of them will reply: lovely place.
even though I wanted to know how they find the direction to get there…
what makes that miss understanding in here?
thanks.
Thanks for taking this English quiz! Your score: 100.00 You got 6 correct out of 6.’
I think i am a ..
Dude you are awesome and the lesson was so good and helpful for me, thank you so much
thanks for your explanations.
veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery nice
my words can not express how useful your lessons are.
May god bless you !
I liked your class :-) .
great teaching
hello alex. you are ahead of the pack teaching inglish and cover all the bases thank you God bless.
ALEX CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THIS WORD. “CERTAIN”, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
This quiz was a piece of cake, I did it very well. bye 4 now.
thank you very much for this helpful information. it is very helpful resource for english learners. i just can’t find word to express my huge gratitude to yous such a wondreful opportunity you provide us with.
you are great teacher! i”ll be ahead of the pack.
hello alex ,I don’t understand this video because I can’t listen , can you write on that for me to understand? (maybe When I write some words will be wrong because my poor writing skills)
wow! this lesson is amazing!
congratulations!!!!!!Alex, I´m a teacher, I learned a lot from you
Well done
Wou, it’s owesome. your explanation clear as a bell. i’m gonna tell to my friends about all of your idioms. Thank you very much sir.
thanks alex
Thanks sir alex, you’re on the mark.
Thanks sir. You’re ahead of the pack in the field of teaching!
thank you!
Very nice lesson!! Idioms are the more difficult thing to understand and your explanations are very clear. Thanks!
Thank you so much,you did cover all the bases, i like your lessons a lot.
i neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed more and moreeeeeee
of these idioms explanation by our genious teasher ALEX
thank you so much
Thanks so much! Alex. It’s so new to me. This is the first time i hear it. But i can understand all!
Nice day! Our teacher!
yes!!!!! i got the quiz…..its good,, very informative…
Hi, here is one of your students from the Czech Republic! A very nice job (actually – great!)!!! I will listen to it again many times in order to keep it in mind and tomorrow and the next week :) and then remember it forever and ever. :D I also did not know a thing from those idioms before but the explanation is clear, used in useful realistic situations. Thank you so so much:) Love youuuuu :D :D
Hi Alex and everyone! Alex, thank you for the idioms and your clear explanations–they made the idioms easy to remember!
Thank you, Alex! You are the best teacher here. Its a big pleasure to watch and listen your lessons.
i would like to think all the teacher on engvid
83,3% no so bed…But really how often can I hear these ideoms in English speech?..Is it useful?..)Thanks any way! I have very good time with your videos)
thanks Alex your lecture so useful I took some information from ur lecture
very informative and very well presented. thanks a lot.
Wow, this lesson was awesome!! I really enjoyed it. Thanks Alex, you’re a good teacher.
very nice
great teaher Thank you .thank you .thank you
Lately I´ve learned how to make alot of money.I´m now ahead of the pack
thanks very much about all this.and every second i listen to your lesson .i think you are my best teacher bye
thank you Alex!
MY NAME IS GEORGE AND I AM FROM GREECE.ALEX,YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER.I WAS WONDWE=ERING IF YOU COULD GIVE ME ADVICE IABOUT LISTENING TEST IN MICHIGAN PROFECIENCY.THANK YOU
I like very much engvid. I’m autodicdacte so ths site is very useful for me.
It is an interesting lesson .
Of all the sites which i have tried , i can say : engvid is ahead of the pack in field of learning English .
Have i used the idiom correctly ?
Nice!
GREAT, thank you teacher you made me know what I never imagine to learn one a day.
Hi teacher Alex! These idioms are not usually learnt in a regular classroom! Yet, I believe them very useful when it comes to understanding spoken English. I got 5 out of 6, it seems that for me, question 2 on the quiz was out of left field! Thank you.
hello sir alex..I learned my school about the sport idioms but hey are a bit complicated so I didn’t understand…can you gıve me some examples about this ıdıoms to make me clear..here are these..1]BE ON THE BALL..2)MOVE THE GOALPOSTS..3)A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD 4)A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME 5]SCORE AN OWN GOAL 6)START THE BALL ROLLING…THANK YOU FROM NOW:)
thanks so much
hii Alex,
Learning english idioms is really a fun..But the most important thing is to utilize them in appropriate situation..It does not make sense that someone using them in a context where they are not desired..
Hey Alex, I really liked your sessions. I sincerely appreciate your endeavor to shape English in countries like India where there is hunger to learn it but there are only handful of scholars in it making it suffer the consequence for being at the receiving end. I really admire your way of teaching – specially the way you maintain rate of speech and exaggeration technique for better understanding. May god bless you with more and more knowledge and happiness to share the same. bye now.
thanks alot mr.Alex
thanks alot .
mr.Alex
Alex, thanks.
One question regarding on/off the mark. How rude/tart is this expression? Can it be used in a official communication (e.g. among colleagues)?
Sir Alex,could you please give us more English Idioms.Thanks… God bless you.
great lesson.thank you!
Great job dude !!!
You are a great teacher! Thank you very much!
THAN YOU EVER SO MUCH
VERY HELPFUL
Hi Alex:)
I just wanted to tell you that you are an amazing teacher:) It’s a real pleasure to watch you teaching and I can see that it’s what you really like doing. Your lessons are short but very instructive and it’s very easy to keep focused and keep up with what you’re saying. I liked you from the very first video and when I learned that you’re from Poland I understood why :) So anyway, thank you again and if you ever come to Poland, give me a heads up :):) Do zobaczenia i dziękuję :-)
nice and great lesson,thanks
I like all sports.Thank you very much.It was right.
great to know.
You can just say short cut for the ‘on/off the mark’
on the mark -correct
off the mark – wrong.
Hi, my name is Edinaldo. I live in Brazil(Rio de Janeiro) I found these english videos by chance when trying to improve my pratice of english. As next world cup and olympics games will be held here, I intend to learn it asap. Nice classes!
Thank you Alex… you covered all the bases ;)
it is very useful . i benefit very much.
I love the way you express everything, very useful, thanks!
Thank you alex, I really like subjects like this..!
Great!
Helpful lesson thanks
Helpful lesson thanks
good one.. how to keep them memorized?
Thank you Alex! Nice lesson!
very very thanks you are really teacher …
you are a great teacher alex …really its most useful…
this lesson is se intersting
Alex, could you load a video with more sports words and expressions such as “pass the ball”, throw the pass ahead of me, etc. I really liked this lesson. Best regards,
Very nice and clear presentation. Thank you.
Good JOB! TNX)
Great! Thanks!
Thanks!
For him, whatever her girlfriend says is on the mark. For me, he is not being objective.
Thank you Mr. Alex for good idioms!