SPORTS

Click here to listen to five people talking about sports. This is the listening in the photocopy. Go to "comments" to check the answers.

Extreme Sports

1. Click here to do a listening activity about the topic.

2. Mountain Climber


Listen and fill in the gaps with the correct information (one word in each gap). Check your answers in "comments".

-On her expedition , she become aware of the feelings of _________________ and _________________ connected with mountaineering.

- She had previously taken part in several so-called _________________  _________________ 

- She found the _________________   _________________  for climbing Everest particularly hard.

- She was particularly worried about the _________________   _________________  she would have to climb through

-She says you cannot take any of the _________________  of life with you on Everest.

- On her first trip there, she regretted taking her _________________  with her.

- When she climbed Everest, she left her _________________  after a certain point.

-She says you mustn't waste _________________ when you are on the mountain.
-When they reached the top, they had a sensation of _________________ _________________ 

-Her book about climbing Everest is called _________________  _________________  _________________  _________________ _________________ 

Drugs in sport

This is the listening activity we did in class.



Click here to listen to a six-minute podcast about blood doping.

That's English-  Module 7 - Unit 2A- Sports and performance-enhancing drugs

Module 7 - Unit 2A

Extreme sports

These are the words you need to fill in the exercise in the photocopy.

PUSH       SEEKING       SEEKERS        DANGER       THREATENING       RISK         RELEASE      ADDICTED       JUNKIES  RUSH           TEST        ASSOCIATED   OVERCOMING   CHALLENGE    ACHIEVEMENT   EXTREME       ENJOY       PERFORMED       HIGH          USED

The benefits of sport

Do the preparation activity (vocabulary) in your photocopy. Then watch the video and fill in the gaps. Check your answers in "comments".

Sport vocabulary

VOCABULARY

 

Click here to see the more vocabulary about sports equipment.

Click here to watch a great lesson on how to talk about sport.

Sports

Vocabulary:

Click here to see the power point presentation we saw in class.

1. Do, Play or Go and some equipment. Click here to do a quick quiz.
2. Matching quiz
3. Which sport person would say...?
4. Football vocabulary.

Listen and read: The Olympic Games- then and now

This is a great video with ideas about how to talk about sports in English. You also have the script.