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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Group the students and let them ask their classmates how they spend their free time, what their favorite pastime is and how often they do it. A group should call one member from the other group an ...
Group the students and task them to make their own poem about their pastime following the given sample. In this activity, they will be able to express their opinions about various pastime. They wi ...
This worksheet is very useful after having practised either speaking or writing the sports' tastes and abilities, in a communicative way. After the instruction with the teacher's help, students pu ...
I am sending herewith an activity which includes a Powerpoint on various sports activities which took place in the recently concluded Paralympics. The Powerpoint presentation can be shown to ...
This is a presentation for students to learn the language Physical Education teachers use in the classroom, especially instructions. It was designed for a bilingual class, but it can also be used ...
This worksheet includes: - activities you can do at the stadium, at a park, at a friend's house, at the mall. - making invitations: let's go to the mall, let's listen to music - scrambled sentence ...
This worksheet includes several exercises: reading comprehension about likes and dislikes, questions about the text. Students will have to read and understand a short text, complete a chart, answe ...
"Can you talk about things you like?" is a worksheet that deals with the use of the verb like in first person singular in its affirmative as well as in its negative form. The present worksheet con ...
This is a pretty simple picture crossword for revising sports related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down clues and ...
This word search was used after listening to the "This is 2012" song by The Glory Boys. It includes some key words related to the Olympic Games and helps students practice vocabulary related to sp ...
You'll find the answers to the worksheet Sport at Heart. First of all, the students must pick out the different monuments they can recognize. Secondly, they must match the sportsmen and sportswome ...
First of all, the students should work in a computer room or a language laboratory in order to check the information they need on the Internet. The first part is based on the visual aspect of the ...
This is a gap fill activity using the British Olympics 2012 'flame song'. The worksheet is a listening activity then a look at the vocab finding synonyms. Then adjectives, comparatives and superl ...
Practice worksheet for correctly using simple present and present continuous. Complete the sentence by selecting the correct tense of the verb provided. Verbs are all sports verbs of Summer Oly ...
This is a picture crossword for teaching or revising hobbies and leisure activities related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword puzzle using the ...
The following activities can be used as warm-up activities, to elicit vocabulary about sports & olympic games. It has a a crossword about olympic games sports. You can also find a dialogue abo ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). These country profiles are for a lesson about different countrie ...
I am running two weeks of middle school summer classes with an Olympic theme (since the Games are currently happening in London!). This worksheet is for a lesson about different countries' Olympi ...
Taking full advantage of the Olympic Games in London, I have been working with this interesting and motivating topic with my students, making a link with different topics. This worksheet I have ma ...
This is a worksheet designed to work with 10 - 12 year -old students while watching the movie. It focuses on rhymes, word families, indoor and outdoor activities, adectives and physical descriptio ...
This is a set of 33 high quality cards / flashcards for teaching or revising sports related vocabulary. They are excellent for vocabulary building and discussion practice! Challenge your students ...
A simple worksheet containing a set of 30 images to be used as a warmer or filler. Cut the pictures into cards. Ss put them face down. Then they take turns and according to their level, they can.. ...
This is a wordsearch using some olympic sports vocabulary. It can be used for a beginners / pre-intermediate level, or for children. It contains 12 words such as weight lifting, fencing, relay rac ...
This worksheet describes different sports. It offers definitions and collocations about the verbs go/play/ do. It is followed by a series of exercises in which the student has to choose the most s ...
This activity uses Olympic training tips and traits of athletes to help students learn English. Upper intermediate or advanced students will read, write, and discuss learning skills that can moti ...
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