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 Madonnas 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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I was looking for some activities and worksheets for beginners and I´ve found plenty of them here, but it was hard to find word search about hobbies, so I created one. Pretty useful fo ...
This PPT is about free time activities and hobbies. Students have to look at the pictures and complete the sentences with the correct verb (the options are given). They can practice present simple ...
This Powerpoint presentation can be useful while presenting new vocabulary on the topic sport. It has a lot of visuals, and it contains exercises for practicing new vocabulary. Why, where, when pe ...
Activities based on a Peppa Pig episode, for young learners aged about 6. Practising "can" in questions and short answers. After watching, a teacher may check the answers and elicit "Yes, he/she c ...
A set of activities for young learners about Olympic and Paralympic games (Beijing 2008). Students have to recognize and label the sports. They will learn the meaning and procedence of the ri ...
A worksheet to practice vocabulary. Here you have pictures and students have to choose the right sport and label the picture. It is intended to introduce the topic sports or hobbies for elementary ...
These are six speaking information gap tasks on the topic of leisure and entertainment. I made them to give my KET for Schools students more experience making and answering questions. You can cut ...
The brief history of the Olympics, their origin and revival plus some interesting facts about Games. Good for practicing past simple and revision of sport topic. You can read and discuss it in cl ...
This pairwork worksheet uses everyday activities to practice the contrast between present simple and present continuous. This very structured practice is best used with elementary and pre-intermed ...
I work in a military college in Oman, and all my students are boys. They are football-crazy, so I used the FIFA rules to make a worksheet to help them review modal verbs to express obligation. I h ...
There you can see pictures with headings, your task is to find mistakes in headings, also you may cut out these pictures and use them for vocabulary revision. Next task with pictures is to find th ...
This worksheet is about hobbies and free time and clubs running in a school. Students learn vocabulary about hobbies, indoors and outdoors activities, after school activities. Then they have to do ...
This quiz is designed for elementary level and beginner students. It consists of six pictures. Students hear five short texts about free time activities.They match the pictures with the texts. For ...
There are 15 slides in this PPT with 15 different winter activities. Students have to look at the picture and choose the correct option. They can learn or revise vocabulary related to winter activ ...
This worksheet contains the definitions of such notions as "sport" and "game". It has several lexical and grammar exercises (choosing the alternatives and the correct answers) that are connected w ...
Listening activity with answers. It's based on an interwiew recorded in July 2013. The worksheet includes the youtube link and the answers are also provided. The video lasts for three minutes and ...
This is the interactive version of my lesson plan Positioning Soccer Players on the Field. There is no need to print it out; the students can download it and answer the questions directly. The vid ...
It's about animals' records. This is a small review of sport achievements of animals. It's for those students, who study English for the fourth or more years in an advanced level. It can be used ...
A simple matching exercise of some unconventional sports. Good for introducing vocabulary of cayaking, rafting, hang gliding...., and other non traditional sports; can be used in topics related to ...
There are 2 pages in the document. The first task is to match the definition of a sport with the picture (Squash, Cricket, Gliding, and Hang Gliding). Then you should find some equipment in the pi ...
A worksheet to elicit students vocabulary - orally or in writing about identifying famous people. Students are given some pictures of famous people connected to various sports. Try to fill the tab ...
Ideal for English conversational classes. Tell the students to sit back to back. Student A is the reporter. Student B is the runner. Student A will speak being a runner. Student B w ...
An activity to work in groups. With this activity you can get to know your students better and they will learn a lot of vocabulary about hobbies and interests. It is a very good activity to motiva ...
I have created this very simple worksheet for my elementary and false beginners students to develop their vocabulary on the topic sports. It's a simple wordsearch. For each word students must tick ...
This reading comprehension includes some interesting facts about four famous athletes and their sport achievements. Children must read through the texts and answer the questions. It can be used w ...
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