People like to talk about their favorite sports and personal hobbies which is why it is such a wonderful ESL topic. There are currently 295 sports worksheets that you can choose from that focus on these things. This worksheet includes a listening activity using Madonna’s song “This Used to Be My Playground” as well as several other exercises. It is designed for pre-intermediate and intermediate learners for practice using the past simple and used to. There is even a music video that you and your students can enjoy included on the website. Keep in mind that it will take several repetitions for students to complete all the activities. For other activities look at the rest of the section or narrow down your search by clicking on the subsection link.
The popularity of certain sports and hobbies will vary from country to country and also between age ranges. If you are planning to do a sports or hobbies themed lesson, make a point of choosing topics that will appeal specifically to your learners. This will encourage them to connect with the lesson material and participate fully in activities. If you are unsure what topics they will enjoy, have them complete a short survey or volunteer ideas. It is always best to make sure you are on the right track before creating a lesson plan than to realize midway through the lesson that you chose material incorrectly.
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It's my new powerpoint for your students. It's a speaking activity using ppt and whiteboard. Students will need to ask each other using Present Simple affirmative and negative. They will need to c ...
This power point is divided in two parts: a set of sports flashcards (f/c) and an exercise. Use the set of f/c to introduce or revise vocabulary. Then check students' knowledge with a simple word ...
Worksheet to learn or reinforce Sports vocabulary. Including a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster with 40 different sports illustrated with pictures and a word search ...
A set of 24 flashcards to help memorize leisure activities vocabulary including indoor and outdoor activities. Each flashcard contains a colourful illustration and the corresponding word or senten ...
A worksheet to revise vocabulary related to sports presented by ANIMALS which will help young students to remember new words and spell them correctly, they have to write the missing letters and fi ...
An activity specifically designed for beginners or very young students who love to use scissors and glue. It´s a picture dictionary including 16 different sports illustrated with funny pictu ...
A set of colorful sport flashcards for young students that can be used as a memory game (a.k.a. pelmanism) or for other purposes of ESL teaching. There are 44 different sports including Olympic S ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation (game) to practice the Present Simple tense and Vocabulary related with Hobbies. Students listen and read the question look at the picture and choose the correct ...
This is a set of cards to stimulate conversation among students. The topic is focused on " Sports" containing several questions such as: what´s your favourite sport?; Do you like playing &h ...
Let your students learn new vocabulary in a different, fun and effective way. This is a PowerPoint presentation on “Hobbies” vocabulary. In the first part students click on the pict ...
This is a PPT presentation of sport vocabulary (usage of play go and do). It can be used as a presentation of sports that take do, play or go. The students first look at the sports and than say wh ...
Let your students have fun and revise their vocabulary! List of words used in this word search: FISHING, CYCLING, TENNIS, TABLETENNIS, KARATE, BASKETBALL, SURFING, RUGBY, BASEBALL, BOWLING, GOLF, ...
Twelve names of sports for begginner level students (intended for 10 to 12 year old students of English as a Foreign Language) List of words used in this word search: TENNIS, SKATEBOARDING, ICESK ...
The aim of this exercise is to help young learners revise sports words if they have recently been taught these words. I will use this sports vocabulary word search puzzle as a warmer to prepare th ...
Here's a simple 7-word Chess word search puzzle for your Elementary Level learners. Hope you like it! List of words used in this word search: DEFENCE, BISHOP, ATTACK, QUEEN, ROOK, PAWN, CHESS Cr ...
This Intermediate word puzzle will help my learners to remember the word on the topic. It will help them to remember their spelling as well. Finally, it will help me as a teacher to make an intere ...
Here's a wordsearch to practice/revise all kinds of sports: individual, team and extreme sports. List of words used in this word search: PARACHUTING, KARATE, GYMNASTICS, SURFING, FENCING, TENNIS, ...
Use of words to talk about extreme sports. List of words used in this word search: ROCKCLIMBING, SNOWBOARDING, FORMULA1, KICK-BOXING, BUNGEEJUMPING, RAFTING, PARAGLIDING, POTHOLING Created using ...
This is a simple crossword (based on pictures) that could be used to practice the vocabulary related to sports, games and active lifestyle. Hope it's useful, have a nice day!
This worksheet provides good practice of present and past tenses along with adjectives while talking about a celebrity or one's champion. It is intended for pre-intermediate to intermediate learne ...
Easy exercise to practice the Present Continuous tense. In this task each student will be asked first to match the pictures with the words which describe the pictures. In the second part of the ex ...
Reading worksheet about this amazing sport - parcour!
Ever climbed up a building? Bounced off walls? Or jumped from rooftop to rooftop? Parkour practitioners do it every day. Parkour is the &ldqu ...
In this worksheet, kids look at the pictures of sports and hobbies and then put the words in order to make a CAN / CAN`T sentence. As a follow up they use the same pictures to do a read and ma ...
This worksheet is planned to motivate students to introduce themselves, giving some personal information and talking about their hobbies,their leisure time and their family. I have used it for my ...
These are two flash cards that help students remember to use the verb play with the names of team sports and the verb go with the names of sports with -ing ending. Can be used for warm-ups or dril ...
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