Sports and Leisure Activities

Being able to carry on a conversation about your favorite leisure and sports activities and asking your friend’s about theirs will allow deeper bounding when in your second language.

Today’s objective: Students will be able to talk about sports and leisure activities

Vocabulary

Soccer

Equipment

referee

team

Ball

Goal

Uniform

Cleats

Basketball

Net

Tennis shoes

basket

Football

Touchdown

Baseball

Bat

Glove

Homerun

base

Swimming

pool

Skateboarding

Skateboard

ramp

Running

Race

Course

Reading books

Watching movies, television

listening to music

talking with friends

going to concerts

playing video games 

Grammar Structure

Do you like to ______________?

I like to ____________________?

Which sport do you like?

What kind of equipment do you need?

Where is ____________ played?

Warm Up

Watch highlights of the Olympics

Procedure: 

1. Download the most current highlight broad cast of your country’s Olympics (Spanish or English).  
2. Students list any words they know about the Olympics in English.

Draw their favorite sport/leisure activity

Procedure: 

1. Students draw their favorite sport or activity on a small piece of paper

Practice

Fly swatter

Procedure: 

1. Students are divided into two teams and pictures of the vocabulary words are taped on the board.  
2. Each team has a fly swatter.  
3. The teacher says a vocabulary word and the team members with the fly swatters run to the board to hit the picture that represents the word the teacher said.  
4. They only have one chance to hit the correct picture
5. Then the fly swatter is passed to the next team member in line.

Modification: Students stay at the desks instead of lining up. 

Photo credit goes to a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer

Charades

Procedure: 

1. Types of sports/leisure activities are written on small pieces of paper. 
2. Class is divided into two teams and facing opposite ends of the room. 
3.  A team member from each team secretly reads a slip of paper and acts out the activity (without saying anything) for their team to guess.  
4. Then the next team member does the same for a different activity.

Modification: Students take turn acting out the activity for the class instead of teams competing.

Secret Word

Procedure: 

1. One person from the class stands with their back to the board.  
2. The teacher secretly writes a sport or leisure activity on the board.  
3. The student with their back to the board tries to guess the secret word 
4. The class gives hints to them without saying the secret word (ex. Baseball: students can say: bat, ball, glove, homerun, etc.)

Production

Role Play

Procedure: Students work in pairs or small groups to role play a conversation that would happen during one of the sports or leisure activities

Letter

Procedure: Students write a letter to their favorite English speaking sports figure

Commercial

Procedure: Students work in small groups or pairs to make a 30 second to 1 minute role play to convince their classmates to come to their team’s next game