Sports lesson
Pre-A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson Ls will be able to recognise and use the names of different sports and equipment by engaging in 6 different vocabulary activities.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of sports words, sports equipment words in the context of sport
Procedure (23-30 minutes)
T pins up on the board the "sports" pic and asks Ls if they have a favourite sport/Which sport they would like to try.
T pins up a pic of a sport(eg:football) and elicits/provides the name. Invites Ls to pronounce it chorally. Pins up IPA transcription and name of sport under the pic. Same procedure for all 15 sports. T names a sport at a time and asks volunteers to stand up and spotting the right sport to stick a gold medal pic above it and say the sport's name.
T unpis sports names from board and draws attention to the same sports depicted on the book as well as the anagram. T demonstrates with an example how to do the anagram and invites Ls to do the rest quickly. T sks Ls to match words to the pictures, demonstrates with an example. T asks Ls to check answers in pairs and asks some Ls to take turns to write their answers on the board.(eg: athletics-3)
T invites individual Ls to tick the statements that are true for them. Then, T writes "I like -ing/ I don't like -ing" on the board and asks Ls to talk in groups of 4 giving their opinions about sport or other activities. T monitors. T gets FB open class. T draws Ls' attention to corpus spot. Has Ls read the rule and asks CCQ: Can we play swimming? Why (not)? Can we go volleyball? why (not)? Can we do athletics? Why? T invites pairs of Ls to do the first task. Gets FB. T invites pairs to do the second task. Gets FB
T invites Ls to work in pairs. Shows the HO and asks pairs to match the equipment (which is also depicted on HO) to the sports in ex. 1 Distributes HO. Monitors. T gets FB by writing on board the name of sports the students supply.