Explaining Sports- Game & Speaking
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Making descriptions of sports guessing game and cultural exchange practice
Lesson Plan Content:
Explaining sports game and speaking
Choose one of the sports below and explain which one you are thinking of without saying any part of its name until your partner guesses what you are talking about. See if they can add anything to your explanation, then take turns doing the same with other sports.
Things you could talk about:
“Play”, “go” or “do” this sport? Actions
Adjectives to describe watching and doing it Age ranges
Championships Equipment (sizes, materials, etc)
Financial details (professional and/ or amateur, free or paid TV, ticket prices, pay, etc)
Gender History
In Olympics or not Locations (court/ pitch/ track, played in schools or not, etc)
Origin of name/ Meaning of name Players (number, positions, famous ones, etc)
Popularity (past, present and future) Rules
Skills needed Timings
Your own experience and opinions Dangers/ Possible injuries
Suggested sports to describe
Abseiling Angling (= fishing) Arm wrestling
Australian Rules football Ballroom dancing Basketball
Billiards Bouldering Boules/ Petanque
Bowling (= ten pin bowling)/ Skittles Bullfighting
Bungee jumping Camel racing Cockfighting
Competitive eating Crazy golf Cricket
Croquet Discus Diving
Dodgeball Dressage Fencing
Football (= Association football = Soccer = Footie) Fox hunting
Futsal/ Five-a-side football Graeco-Roman wrestling
Greyhound racing Gymnastics Hammer throwing
High jump Hurdles Javelin
Kite fighting Laser quest Lawn bowling/ Bowls
MMA (= mixed martial arts) Mountaineering
Open water swimming Paintball Pigeon racing
Pitch and putt Pole vault Polo
Pool Race walking Relay
Rodeo Rounders Sheepdog trials
Shot put Show jumping Sled dog racing
Snooker Squash Synchronised swimming
T’ai Chi Taekwondo Thai boxing/ Muay Thai
Three-legged race Tug of war Unicycling
Do the same with sports not on the list above.
Work together to explain some traditional or popular sports and games in your country like these Japanese examples: aikido, ekiden, gateball, janken, judo, karate, karuta, keirin, kemari, kendo, kyudo, Sudoku, sumo wrestling, yabusame
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