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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This PPT presentation is created to check the students' knowledge of different kinds of water sports, such as water skiing, white-water rafting, jet skiing, snorkelling, deep-sea fishing, windsurf ...
The listening task is the matter of curiosity:) It concerns the phenomenon of barefoot running. A Harvard professor gives some interesting and useful information on barefoot running. You can use ...
This is a reading comprehension worksheet for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary at pre-intermediate level. Students are asked to read the text, say if the statements are true or ...
This activity begins with a question: what does a family member usually do? The teacher has to make a pause and wait for the students to answer. All the slides have animated gifs or pictures as we ...
The aim of this worksheet is to improve students' speaking skills. A teacher can print and cut the topic cards, then give it to students and let them ask and answer the questions in pairs. It take ...
This is a worksheet based on a video in New Headway Elementary Itutor. It contains three activities for you to work with your students before, while, and after watching the video. The first activi ...
This power-point presentation has 2 parts: speaking and flashcards. The speaking part contains different types of questions about free-time and free-time activities, while the second part contains ...
This is for the kids to warm up the class. It's about what activities the students can do during each season of the year with images and meaningful vocabulary. If you want you may add more activit ...
I prepared this ppt as a warm-up for a lesson about extreme sports. It can be used as a 'back to board' game or as pre-teaching vocabulary. The 'back to board' game goes like this: the class is di ...
This Powerpoint is made for pre-intermediate students. It's about verbs of taste (like, enjoy, love) and expressions of taste (to be fond of, to be interested in, to be crazy about). Students lear ...
This worksheet focuses on the revision of the following grammar points: can/can't, like+ing, dislike+ing, degrees of ability, imperative, free-time activities, why/b ...
It´s a song worksheet based on the Pitbull's song "We are one ". This song was created for the Fifa World Cup 2014, This championship took place in Brazil and this song was very popular at t ...
This is dialogue designed for two peoples and demonstrating how to start a conversation with a stranger and different ways to say: "I like/dislike" such as I'm keen on, I'm interested in, my favor ...
This PowerPoint contains some free time activities, such as listening to music, playing chess, collecting barbie cards, etc. The students will learn the new words and phrases through the context. ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation which is appropriate for elementary students. It includes some pictures and some useful sentences children can use in parks or playgrounds. It can be good for stu ...
This PowerPoint deals with vocabularies related to free time activities, such as listening to music, reading books, going for a walk, knitting, playing the guitar, etc. It includes 14 slides with ...
A lot of idioms are inspired by the world of sport. Many of these idioms are very common so their knowledge can prove useful. This worksheet 'sports' the list of fifteen common idioms. I included ...
This is a simple vocabulary quiz based on Unit 70, Vocabulary in Use for pre-intermediate and intermediate students, 1997, CUP. The quiz can be used at the end of the topic "Sport". It doesn't tak ...
This ppt is good to practise "can" questions. It also includes several activities supported by pictures. As you proceed with the ppt, let your students name the activity they see and then ask a qu ...
This is a very basic worksheet for elementary young students (A1) to review question words through a short simple quiz and countries and nationalities through a filling task. I have used the footb ...
You can use this Powerpoint before playing the memory game (another post) to introduce the English names and flags of all the countries in the World Cup. It's a good way to engage students of all ...
This is a game you can play with students of all levels, whether they are following the World Cup or not. I think it's a good way to help them learn the names of countries in English, as well as m ...
Power point version of the Adobe soccer expressions quiz as written by Alamrani. This version avoids reloading the quiz if a wrong answer is submitted. This allows the quiz to be completed i ...
How much do your students know about soccer equipment and vocabulary? Do they know the names of gear and equipment items used in soccer? Teachers can use this activity as a trigger for speaking an ...
This worksheet has been designed for lower level elementary students, especially children, to practise questions words. It is based on three famous football players, so football fans might find it ...
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