LESSON PLAN: SPORTS

FOCUS: SPORTS VOCABULARY

TIME:60 minutes
LEVEL: LOW

MAIN
OBJECTIVES

Sports vocabulary, question forms using the verbs play and do

or common action verbs describing sports

MATERIALS
NEEDED

Sports flashcards, sports worksheet, information gap activity

sheets, writing production sheet

LANGUAGE

Does s/he play/do ____? Do you swim/skate/? What sport

does s/he play/do? _____ plays/does _____.

WARM-UP
ACTIVITY
5-10 minutes

Mime different sports to find out the vocabulary the students

already know and which words are new to them. Or get
students to mime their favourite sports. As the students
guess, write the words on the board.

PRESENTATION
10-15 minutes

Call out the name David Beckham and ask, What sport does
he play? After someone calls out the correct answer, write his
name under the word football that you have written on the
board from the warm-up exercise. Try to think of a famous
athlete for each of the sports you have on the board. As the
matches are made, students can respond, _____ plays/does
_____. (e.g. David Beckham plays football.) For some ideas
refer to the flashcards included with this lesson.

PRESENTATION
Notes to teacher: Some sports use play as the verb and other
use do. Usually we say play for team sports or sports involving
a score like basketball, hockey and golf. Other sports like
gymnastics and boxing are timed or judged, so we use the verb
do when describing them. Some other sports like swimming
and skating have a common verb form (swim and skate) that are
used to describe them. Therefore you would ask, Do you
swim/skate?
COMMUNICATION
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
10 minutes

Place students into groups of three or four to play a game with

the flashcards. First students deal out all the cards. The first
student takes an athlete card from his/her hand and chooses
another student to ask a question to. For example, if the
athlete is Yao Ming, the student asks, What sport does he do?
If the second student has the matching sport card, he/she
responds, He plays basketball. If the second student does
not have the matching sport card, he/she responds, I dont
know. Then another student takes a turn. The object is to
find all the matches.

COMMUNICATION
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
10 minutes

After the flashcard game, you may want a settling activity.

Students can fill in the work sheet about sports and famous
athletes. Some of the vocabulary included in this worksheet
will help the students with the activities on sports found in
other sections of the Teaching Zone about sports.

PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY
15 minutes

This activity begins with an information gap activity in which

students gather the information necessary to complete the
writing production exercise that follows. First allow the
students to roam around the room asking each other questions
(Does _____ play/do ____?) in order to fill in the forms
(included in this lesson). After the forms are complete, the
students return to their seats and begin the writing production
activity.
Instructions for the Writing Production worksheet: Write a
few sentences about the __________ family. What sports do
they do/play? Can you add any more information about them?
Use your imagination. (Allowing the students to create a bit on
their own will give the students a chance to recycle past
vocabulary. Maybe you could give them a few topic ideas or
guidelines based on the vocabulary covered in previous lessons.)

WRAP-UP
ACTIVITY
5 minutes

As a quick wrap-up activity, scramble the letters of the sports

vocabulary on the board and see how many words the students
can get and spell correctly before the end of class.