Play hard or go home!
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Play hard or go home!

Lesson overview

In this lesson, the student will learn and practice using colour idioms and expressions related to colours.

 

Warm-up

Based on the pictures, the student should say the names of the sports (soccer, ice hockey, cricket, and American football). In another warm-up activity, the sports are briefly described for the student to guess the names.

 

The sports of English-speaking countries

The student tries to guess the names of the countries (UK, USA, Canada, and Australia) based on their flags and say which sport is the most popular one in each of them.

 

Sports and actions/movements

In this exercise, the student learns about other popular sports in the four mentioned countries and tries to name the actions/movements used in these sports (e.g. rugby run/throw/kick).

 

Video: learning the rules of American football, ice hockey, cricket, and soccer

The student watches four short videos about the rules of four different sports. After watching it, they choose the correct verbs to complete short paragraphs explaining these rules.

 

Grammar: action verbs

To practice the use of action verbs used in the rules explanations, the student fills in the gaps using verbs such as  play, hit, throw, kick, etc.

 

Matching

In the final exercise, the student matches the sports players to the correct balls/items and actions they perform.

 

 

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