Speaking about Sport
Aims:
- develop student’s speaking skills through the delivering mini presentation ‘ and text based discussions;
enhance the socio-cultural competence of students when exploring the information about sport;
encourage students to express their opinion on the topic thus empowering them with the skills necessary for successful communication in real life situations;
participate in common conversational exchange about sport;
to conduct your own dialogues changing the participants and the situations;
to identify the main ideas and details from the text for when reading it;
to demonstrate the important role of sport in our lives;
to systematize the knowledge of students on the theme "Sport";
to develop attention, memory, ability to guess, the ability to self-evaluation;
to educate the desire for an active lifestyle.
Materials:
mini presentation;
text for reading;
hand-outs.
Plan
1. Warming up. Greeting.
My dear friends!
I am very glad to come into your friendly class,
And look into your clever eyes.
I know: you are genius and talented.
Let’s cross the swords of your opinions,
And I hope you’ll help me to create our lesson today!
Look at the first slide:
- Which apple do you like? Why?
- These apples resemble people. Which apple would you like to be? The choice will depend only on you.
Look at the screen. What do you think we’re going to speak about? (slide 2)
2. Presentation of the text “Sport in Our Life” (slide 3)
Text
People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport and physical exercises help us to keep fit and healthy. There are summer and winter kinds of sports. The most popular winter sports are skating, skiing and tobogganing. Some people greatly enjoy figure skating and ski-jumping. It’s so nice to go to the skating-rink or to the forest on a frosty sunny day!
The most popular summer sports are swimming, cycling, boating and yachting. It’s so wonderful to breathe in the fresh air and enjoy watching nature!
Children all over the world like to play indoor and outdoor games. Athletics, aerobics, gymnastics enjoy their great popularity among the girls. Many of them attended sports clubs and train in the gym. The boys go in for boxing, wrestling, football, tennis, basketball and track and field events.
Everyone must do all he or she can to be healthy and to develop a strong character. “A sound mind in a sound body”, the old Latin proverb says.
3. Cross-group Discussion. (slide 4)
Answer the questions on the text:
What helps us to keep fit and healthy?
What are the most popular winter sports?
What are the most popular summer sports?
What indoor games do you know?
What outdoor games do you know?
How do you understand the proverb “A sound mind in a sound body”?
4. Ask and Answer. Pair-work: (slide 5)
1. What sports do you like?
2. What sports do you do?
3. What games do you like?
4. Which sports do you watch on TV?
5. What sports are you good at?
6. Do you have any friend who doesn’t like sports?
5. Role-play (slide 6)
Imagine such situation that your friend who doesn’t like sports is sitting next to you: try to persuade your friend to become a sporty person.
6. Active Survey. Interview. (slide 7)
I give you hand-outs with the table. You have to ask every person in our classroom only 2 questions: “What sports do you like?” and “What sports do you do?” Then summarize your interview and share your results with the class. Let’s start.
7. Game “Guess the sport!”
Let’s play game “Guess the Sport!” with a partner. Say three things about a sport. But don’t say its name. Can you partner guess what it is?!
8. Summarizing. (slide 8)
- Have we worked effectively today?
- What new things have you learnt at our lesson?
Hand-Outs
Questions
“What sports do you like?”
“What sports do you do?”
Summing-up
Hand-Outs
Questions
“What sports do you like?”
“What sports do you do?”
Summing-up
Hand-Outs
Questions
“What sports do you like?”
“What sports do you do?”
Summing-up
