Sporting Combinations

Here are three sports which are becoming very popular. Read the descriptions and see if you
can match the name to the sport.

Ultimate Frisbee Chessboxing Octopush

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This is a sport where two
teams try to hit a puck
across the bottom of a
swimming pool into a goal.
There are six players playing
for each team at a time, as
well as four substitutes. To
play you need a diving
mask, snorkel, cap, stick and
puck.
This is a sport played with a
flying disc. The object of the
game is to score points by
passing the disc to the
player in the opposition’s
end zone. You can’t run
with the disc. There are
usually seven players on
each team. To play you
need a disc.
This combines two sports,
with eleven alternate
rounds. You can win either
by hitting your opponent to
make him unconscious or to
achieve ‘checkmate’. This is
an individual sport. You
need to be good at both
sports to win. You need
gloves and a chess board.

Work in pairs. Read the descriptions again and answer the questions below.

1. Which traditional sports have been combined to make these new sports?

2. What equipment do you need for each sport?

3. How do you win in each sport?

4. Which of these sports would you most like to try? Why?

Now you’re going to invent a new sport. Work with your partner and combine two or more
traditional sports to make your new one. Make sure you include the information below.

- How do you play the sport? How do you win? What are the rules?

- What equipment do you need? Where do you play?

- Why should people play this sport?

Topic: Sport Level: J6

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 Sporting Combinations
Level: Class Size: Age: Time:
Elementary/Pre-Int Any Upper-Primary 45 minutes
Main Aim(s): Assumptions: Possible Problems:
To create and describe a new Students have studied some Extra vocabulary needed to
sport by combining two or more sporting vocabulary – traditional complete final task
traditional ones sports, equipment, etc.
Syllabus Links: Cultural Links: Materials Needed:
Sport, Verbs of movement Sport in the UK Worksheets

Timing: Procedure: Sub Aims:

00:00- Quickly revise some of the most popular sports in your group’s Warmer
05:00 country. Ask them what is meant by the word ‘traditional’.
Elicit an answer of old, been done for a long time etc. Ask for
the opposite and try to elicit ‘modern’ or ‘new’. Tell the
students they are going to read about three fairly new sports.
05:00- Ask students to quickly skim read the texts and match the sport Reading description for
10:00 to its name. Go through the answers with the group. gist

10:00- Ask the students to work in pairs and read the texts more Reading description for
15:00 closely to answer the questions in task two. Help them with specific information,
any vocabulary they are not sure of – probably some of the provision of a model
equipment. When they have had some time, check the
answers.

15:00- Tell the students they are going to work in pairs to design their Preparation of
30:00 own new sport, just like the ones in the description. They presentation
should choose two or more traditional sports and put them
together to make their new ones, considering rules, equipment
and a brief description of the sport.

30:00- Once the students have designed their sport, ask them to tell Delivery of presentation
40:00 the rest of the group about it. Depending on the level of the
group, you might need to prompt them by asking direct
questions about their creation.

40:00- As a final activity, you could ask the students to vote on which Extension
45:00 of the new sports they would most like to try, and ask them to
explain why.

Answer Key

Task 1 – 1. Octopush (also known as Underwater Hockey, 2. Ultimate Frisbee, 3. Chessboxing

Task 2 – 1. Octopush – swimming, hockey / Ultimate Frisbee – American football (catch in end zone),
Frisbee / Chessboxing – chess, boxing
2. Octopush – diving mask, snorkel, cap, stick, puck / Ultimate Frisbee – disc / Chessboxing – gloves, board
3. Octopush – hit the puck into the goal, score more goals than the other team / Ultimate Frisbee – throw
the ball to your teammate in the endzone, score more points than the other team / Chessboxing – knock out
your opponent or get a checkmate

Topic: Sport Level: J6

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