Teaching sports vocabulary focusing on "can you" questions

Target Group:

Beginner Level

Material:

Sports flashcards

Vocabulary:

badminton, baseball, basketball, tenpin bowling, cycling, football, golf, gymnastics, horse riding, ice hockey, judo, skiing, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, water polo, windsurfing

Process:

Introduce sports vocabulary to students first. After students have learned different sports you can ask random questions such as: Can you play basketball? Do you like to play football? Who can play tennis? e.g.. Students answer “Yes, I can …. “, when they can do the action or “No. I cannot ….”, when they cannot do the action, “Yes, I do like to play football” or “I can play tennis”.

Skills:

Sports vocabulary; describing situations, people and actions; grammar; sentence structure; word-picture association; early reading; conjunctions; like and dislike; favourites

Game Idea:

Car Race - Arrange the flash cards in a long line with starting and finishing points. Give each student a counter. The first student throws the dice and moves. The student must say the word on the flashcard they land on. If the student makes a mistake, they go back to start. Add colored paper between cards to represent "take another turn" and assign a crash number like #4 on the dice which means the student must return to the beginning.

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