LESSON PLAN: SPORTS TIME:60 minutes FOCUS: SPORTS VOCABULARY 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.

MAINMATERIALSNEEDEDLANGUAGEWARM-UPPRESENTATION 10-15 minutesPRESENTATIONCOMMUNICATIONPRACTICECOMMUNICATIONPRACTICEPRODUCTION ACTIVITY 15 minutesWRAP-UP