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Sports and Hobbies Collocations Pelmanism Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Sports with go, go to, play and do collocations memory game

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Instructions for teachers

Preparation

Photocopy and cut up one pack of cards per 2 or 3 students. Photocopy one more copy of the worksheet for students to check their answers with and take away as reference.

Optional warmer/ lead-in - Sports and hobbies random pelmanism

Give out one pack of cards to each group of two or three students and ask them to spread the whole pack across the table face down, so that no cards are on top of one another. The first person should turn over two cards face up. If they can say how the two things shown are similar in some way (e.g. “You use a racket in both sports” or “They are both places with water”), they can keep the cards and score two points. Each explanation can only be used once during the game (they can’t just say “They are both sports” each time).

If they can’t find a connection between the two cards, they have to turn them back over and put them back in the same places they came from, then play passes to the next person.

Language presentation

Discuss some of the similarities they came up with. Useful ones to mention for the later stages are ball sports, team sports, places and words ending in -ing. If they don’t mention which verbs are used with these nouns, bring up the subject and ask them to work together to put the activities that are used with play + noun, go + noun, go to + noun and do + noun into these four columns.

If any teams finish quickly, let them recheck their own answers by first of all telling them there should be an equal number in each column, then checking their answers and telling them how many mistakes they have made.

Check the answers as a class or give out the extra copies of the worksheet for students to check their own answers (the sports are already arranged by column on the worksheet). Discuss what the differences are: go to + place; go + ing word (especially those connected to moving around); play + sport (or game) with clear winner and points, e.g. ball sports and team sports; do + others such as non-competitive activities and exercise rather than sports. Note that it is also possible to say “go to Tai Chi” etc. if it means “go to Tai Chi class”, and so you should allow this if students bring it up. There might also be some others that can fit in more than one category.

Practice – Pelmanism game

Get the teams to turn over the cards and play the game again, but this time only trying to find pairs that use the same verb e.g. “Football” and “Baseball” (both “play”+). Stop the game after the first team finishes. The person in each team with most cards is the winner.

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Cards to cut up

 

Football

 

 

Jogging

 

A football pitch

 

Aerobics

 

Baseball

 

 

Walking

 

The gym

 

Judo

 

Volleyball

 

 

Rock climbing

 

The park

 

Step aerobics

 

Table tennis

 

 

Hiking

 

The pool

 

Weights

 

Pool

 

 

Skiing

 

A golf lesson

 

Yoga

 

American football

 

 

Horse riding

 

 

A running track

 

Aqua aerobics

 

Tennis

 

 

Trekking

 

The tennis club

 

Athletics

 

Badminton

 

Swimming

 

 

The beach

 

Gymnastics

 

Darts

 

Snowboarding

 

 

The mountains

 

A bungee jump

 

Ice hockey

 

Skateboarding

 

 

A darts bar

 

Archery

 

Golf

 

Surfing

 

 

A baseball stadium

Karate

 

Cricket

 

 

Sailing

 

A tennis school

 

A marathon

 

Rugby

 

 

Canoeing

 

 

A horse racing rack

 

The decathlon

 

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