Sports (All Learners)

Sports are topic that learners can get excited about.  Many learners, especially males, are highly involved in one sport or another.  Hopefully students can be easily motivated to learn the vocabulary and grammar with these activities.  

Vocabulary:

• football
• soccer
• baseball
• basketball
• volleyball 
• tennis
• track
• golf
• ball 
• helmet
• glove
• tennis shoes
• court
• bat

Grammar:

• Do you like _____?
• Yes, I like _____/No, I don't like_____.
• Do you play _____?
• Yes, I play _____/No, I don't play ______.
• What equipment does _____ need?

Activities for vocabulary and grammar:

• Board Game:
• Procedure: Students are in small groups and each player has a game piece (piece of paper with their name, small trinket of their own, etc.).  The youngest player picks the top card and must answer it correctly to move to one space.  If they do not answer it correctly, they cannot move up one space.  The card is then placed in the discard pile.  The player on the left is next and picks the top card to answer it correctly.  This continues until a player reaches the finish.(example: when playing basketball, what two things do you need, what sport needs a bat, gloves, and a ball?)  
• Modifications: Students make their own questions and answers (must be first checked by the teachers) to use for the cards.  Students roll a dice to see how many spaces they can move if they answer the question correctly.  

A blank game board template

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Blank board game card templates

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• Dominos: 
• Procedure: In small groups, students get 4 dominos (the rest is part of the draw pile).  The oldest student starts by putting one of their dominos in the middle.  The student to the left has to match the picture of the 1st domino with correct vocabulary word, if they cannot the must take one from the draw pile.  If the draw pile domino matches they can play, if not it is the next person's turn.  This continues until a player has played all their dominos.  
• Modifications: The vocabulary words and pictures are on multiple dominos so that students can make their own line of dominos (and be the first to finish) instead of one line for the whole group.  

Blank domino pieces 

• Bingo:
• Procedure: Teacher provides bingo cards with words and/or pictures of the sport vocabulary to each student along with a method to cover the different spaces.  The students then cover each vocabulary term mentioned as the teachers calls them until they have a bingo (five in a vertical line, horizontal line, diagonal or four corners or black out)
• Modifications: Students are given a blank Bingo card and they fill in the empty spaces with sports vocabulary.  

Bingo Card Printer


• Charades:
• Procedure: Students are put into two teams.  Each team is given a set of cards with sport vocabulary on it.  The oldest player is the first to act out a card.  The actor secretly reads the vocabulary word, and then acts it out without using any sounds.  Then the next player acts, and continues until a team correctly guesses all the vocabulary on the cards.  The first team to complete it, wins.  
• Modifications: Students can draw the vocabulary instead of act it out.  Students can only speak of words describing the vocabulary word (without saying any part of the secret word).
• Journal Prompt 
• Procedure: Students write a few sentences, a paragraph, or start writing a story about a journal prompt about sports.  (for example: What is your favorite sport?,  What if you were a famous soccer player?, etc.)
• Modifications: Students can dictate what they want written to another person instead of writing it themselves.  Students can do a chain journal, where they write one sentences and then pass it to someone else to write the next, and then someone else writes the next, etc.