Topic: Sports and Sports Stars.
Objectives: to encourage pupils to speak on the given topic, to practise listening skills to improve pupils’ understanding of English, to develop pupils’ speaking, reading and writing skills, to enrich their active vocabulary, to revise the usage of Past Tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect), to practice group work and pair work, to broaden the children’s outlook.
Materials: computer, Power Point presentation, handouts, Student’s Book Focus 3, additional grammar handouts, board.
PROCEDURE
Good morning, everybody. I’m glad to see all of you safe and sound and ready to have our lesson. We are going to speak about a very interesting topic. Can you guess what it is? (Guessing the topic. Playing a “Hangman” game)
_ _ _ _ _ _ A N D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (Sports and Sports Stars)
Thank you! Well done! It was easy to guess it, isn’t it? The objectives of our lesson are to develop speaking, reading, writing and listening skills, to enrich the vocabulary on the topic, to revise the usage of Past Tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect) and, of course, to broaden the outlook.
I hope by the end of the lesson you’ll have been able to speak on the topic, to demonstrate understanding of the usage of Past Tenses, you’ll be more experienced of how to work in groups and pairs
1. What do you call the people who do these sports?
e.g. basketball – basketball player,
cycling – cyclist,
rowing – rower,
badminton –
skating –
volleyball –
tennis –
boxing –
skiing –
motor racing -
2. Can you name any world famous boxer (tennis player, skater, hockey player, … )
III. Listening
What do you know about the sports people in photos A- C
Listen and match each speaker with their favourite sports star A-C.
Speaker 1
The sports person I look up to most is Cristiano Ronaldo. He’s always been a brilliant player, but he’s also a caring and generous human being. He’s given a lot of money to charities, and is especially passionate about children’s charities. He’s a real inspiration. He’s made generous donations to Save the Children who provides food, clothing and medicine for children in Syria. Once he paid for a baby’s brain operation and his most recent project is to build a children’s hospital in Santiago Chile.
Speaker 2.
Serena Williams inspires me. She’s been a champion for almost 20 years now and is still at the top of her profession. She’s an excellent role model for girls and women. She’s strong and powerful and has a good body image. She‘s spoken out about body image, and also about what it means to be a black woman in tennis. She’s the most successful tennis player in history, but she’s also supportive of one of her biggest opponents, her older sister Venus.
Speaker 3.
I think Robert Kubica’s story is inspiring. He was the first Polish racing driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix, but then he had a terrible accident and he nearly lost his arm. Inspite of his serious injuries, he has stayed positive and returned to racing. He inspires young people because he is so courageous and determined.
generous |
courageous |
determined |
powerful |
passionate |
positive |
caring |
strong |
supportive |
- pre-reading task
Some people say a lot of sports stars are superstitious. They believe in supernatural influences. They believe that some special rituals can lead them to good or bad luck.
A. Work in groups and match the sports people with their rituals
a) always waits near the net to let the opponent rich his/her chair fist.
b) steps on a wet towel while wearing clean socks before a race
c) swings his/her arms 8 times , splashes his/her body with water 4 times and then presses his/her goggles into his/her face 4 times.
d) steps onto the pitch with his/her right foot first.
e) has used the same stick for years.
B. Can you predict what the text will be about?
Complete the gaps 1-3 with sentences A-E.
Answer the questions
By the way, do you know that Serena Williams is quite superstitious? She believes that her success is the result of closely followed rituals and routines. For instance, she always takes her shower sandals to the court, ties her shoelaces a specific way and even wears the same pair of socks during a tournament run.
Do you know any superstitious sports celebrity?
Who are they? What sport do they do? What rituals do they follow?
To call it a day, can you tell me what activity or what stage of the lesson was the most interesting for you? Why?
What was the most difficult?
What new have you learnt during the lesson?
Thank you for being active during the lesson. Your marks are:….
Have a nice day!