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The small cards support grammar practice. They are ideal for teaching I like + sports, He is playing + sport, and He plays + sport in a fun, meaningful way. These are ready-to-use visuals that work for whole-class lessons, centers, pair work, or individual practice.
Activity
1. Find Someone Who: Use small cards to ask and answer questions like Do you like volleyball?
Activity 2. Match the Sport and
Equipment: Students match the sport flashcard with its equipment card and
say a sentence: She has skates for skating.
Activity 3. Sorting Game:
Sort sports by ball category.
team
sports / individual sports or indoor
sports categories.
Sort
with the outdoor sports. Have students make up more categories to sort.
Activity 4. Use small sports cards to
create sentences: He is playing football.
Activity 5. Writing Sports
Sentences (Past Tense Activity)
Students choose a small sports card and write a sentence using the simple
past tense to describe the action. For example: She played baseball
yesterday. This activity helps learners practice writing complete
sentences, review past tense verbs for sports, and connect visuals with grammar
in a meaningful way.
Activity 6. Students pick any small sports card and write a sentence to describe it using different grammar structures.
Activity 7. Sports and Facilities
Matching Activity
Students match each sport to the place where it is played. After matching, they
can say or write simple sentences like You play baseball at
a baseball stadium. This activity helps learners connect vocabulary
for sports and facilities, practice prepositions of place, and use complete
sentences in context.
Here
are the most common prepositions of place related to sports and their
facilities that your students can practice:
- on – for open flat surfaces
- 🏈 You play soccer on a field.
- 🎾 You play tennis on a court.
- 🏒 You play hockey on the ice.
- in
– for enclosed or indoor spaces
- 🏊 You swim in a pool.
- 🏀 You play basketball in a gym.
- 🏋️ You exercise in a gym.
- at
– for general places or specific venues
- ⚾ You play
baseball at the stadium.
- ⛳ You play golf
at the golf course.
Activity 8. Famous Sports Facilities Match
Students investigate the names of famous sports facilities around the world,
such as Wimbledon for tennis or Yankee Stadium for baseball. They
write the name of each facility on a small piece of paper and match it to the
correct sports flashcard or picture. This activity helps students connect
real-world examples to the vocabulary while practicing writing and reading
skills.
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