4. Sports
Unit objectives Anticipating difficulties.
To understand and use target Nowadays children tend to read very little, and often new technologies are
language. favoured. Children may be lacking in motivation to read. Invite children to bring in
their favourite books and comics and explain to their classmates what they like
To understand short dialogues. and don’t like about them. You could hold a vote at the end of the session to see
To follow and enjoy a story. which book or comic seems to be the most interesting.
To participate in songs and
Teaching tip
chants.
The importance of play at this age is often underestimated, but play can foster
To say a chant and practise the a healthy, happy environment in the classroom, which is important in English
j sound. language acquisition. To practise directions you could invent a giant map in the
class or outside in the playground. The children’s desks or trees or rocks could
Target language represent different shops and you could draw a zebra crossing on the floor with
chalk or represent it with a black and white jumper. The children then work in pairs.
Vocabulary:
One is the master, and he/she has to give directions to his/her robot to arrive at a
basketball, cycling, football,
specific destination.
gymnastics, rollerblading,
skiing, swimming, tennis; ball,
bike, clock, cup, rollerblades,
Unit 4 Sports
shirt; hands and feet race,
running race, sack race, three skiing
legged race; climb, do, juggle,
ride, rollerblade swimming
Structures: football
He likes tennis.
She doesn’t like cycling.
She can ride a bike.
basketball rollerblading
tennis
cycling
gymnastics
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2 Ask a friend.
Materials
Ask the children to look at the flashcards again. Remind the children of I like
CD and I don’t like. Point to one of the flashcards and say: I like (football). Use facial
Unit 4 cut-outs expressions to show what you mean. Point to another flashcard, frown and say:
Unit 4 poster I don’t like (skiing). Point to another flashcard and say: I like (swimming). Do
flashcards: sports you like (swimming), (child’s name)? S1: Yes, I do. / No, I don’t. Ask a volunteer
to come to the front to make the statement and ask a question. Repeat the
i-book activity process with other volunteers. Ask the children to look at Activity 2 and to identify
the different sports. Ask two volunteers to read out the dialogue. Then divide
the class into pairs. The children do the exercise.
i-poster
Finishing off
i-flashcards Tell the children they are going to play a game. Divide the class into groups
of three. Combine their sets of cards. Shuffle the cards and place them face
down between the three players. Player A takes a card and mimes the sport.
Player B and Player C race to say the sport. The first to say it correctly keeps
the card. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of the game.
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2 Ask a friend.
Yes, I do.
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Students develop Interpersonal and civic competence by playing a card game in groups of three
that features the new vocabulary words in the unit. Games enable students to use social skills in
class via interaction while allowing fluency practice.
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Resources
Reading and Writing
Teacher’s Resource Book, page 140
Activity 1: Tell the children to look at the six pictures and to write underneath each one the name of the sport that it
depicts.
Activity 2: The children have to study the attitudes of the children in the four photos and decide which child is
enjoying the sport depicted and which child is not. They then draw lines joining the words underneath the photos
and form true statements.
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Finishing off
Hand out the flashcards to various volunteers and ask them to come to the front
of the class. Ask them to hold up the flashcards and either frown or smile. Divide
the class into two teams. Ask a member of one of the teams to say either a
child’s name or a sport. The other team have to make a sentence: David doesn’t
like football. Change the volunteers and repeat the process, but this time, one
team has to make a sentence and the other team has to guess the person.
Team A: He doesn’t like (football). Who is it? Team B: (David.)
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Students develop Interpersonal and civic competence by playing a flashcard game with the whole
class to finish off the lesson. Make sure everyone participates. Group games help create a different
pace in the class.
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He likes tennis .
He likes rollerblading .
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Students develop Mathematical competence by solving a code and then creating their own. Using
logical deductive skills to break a code develops maths skills and communication skills.
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Finishing off
Tell the children they are going to work in pairs and that they are going to use the
code in Activity 4 to send a message to their partner. When they have written the
code, their partner must solve the code and write out the sentence properly.
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Finishing off
Draw a chart on the board that is similar to the one in Activity 5 on page 35
of the Student’s Book. Write the names of five children across the top and
the names of three sports down the side. Ask the children to ask the ‘named’
children if they like the sports, and fill in the table. Then ask a volunteer to say
a sentence: He doesn’t like (football). The rest of the class have to guess who
it is. If they cannot guess, ask the volunteer to give them another sentence,
and so on until they have guessed correctly. Repeat the process with other
children making the statements.
Transcript
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1 Who’s this? He likes football. He likes tennis. He 3 Who’s this? She likes football. She likes tennis. She
doesn’t like rollerblading. doesn’t like rollerblading.
2 Who’s this? She doesn’t like football. She likes tennis 4 Who’s this? He likes football. He doesn’t like tennis
and she likes rollerblading. and he doesn’t like rollerblading.
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Tina!
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Students develop Cultural and artistic competence by interviewing a friend in class, then drawing
their portrait with sports equipment and writing a brief description. Students display their work and
comment on it.
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Lucas
Isabel
tennis .
skiing .
cycling .
football .
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Students develop Processing information and digital competence in the classroom by extracting
specific information from a short CD recording. Children match descriptions of characters with
pictures.
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Finishing off
Do a class questionnaire. Tell the children they are going to do a class
questionnaire about sports. Ask for eight volunteers. Put the flashcards face
down on the table and ask the children to pick one. When they each have
their sport, they must ask their other classmates: Do you like (tennis)? Then
they make a note of the answers. When they have finished, write the sports
on the board and then ask about the children. T: Volunteer 1, does (David) like
football? S1: Yes, (he) likes football. / No, (he) doesn’t like football. Put a tick or
a cross under the appropriate sport. When you have finished, work out what
the class’s favourite sport is.
Transcript
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Structures:
Tom likes rollerblading.
Karim can run fast.
The football starts at two
Oh no! This
o’clock. isn’t my bag.
The football match is starting. It’s OK, Karim.
Oh, no! I can help.
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flashcards: sports
photocopies of Teacher’s Resource Getting started
Book, pages 111 — 112
Show the class the flashcards and elicit the name of each sport. Then stick the
picture cards on the left side of the board, with the pictures facing the board.
i-flashcards Next, repeat with the word flashcards and stick them face down on the right
side of the board. Divide the class into two teams. Ask a volunteer from Team 1
to turn over a picture card and a word flashcard and to say the actions. If they
match, the team wins the pair. If not, turn them over again. Next, a volunteer
from Team 2 has a turn. The winner is the team to win the most pairs.
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fast.is very good at gymnastics. Olga is very good at gymnastics. Later that day...
She can walk on her hands. She can walk on her hands.
Olga, that’s my cup!
No, it isn’t!
Oh no!
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about the Sports day and the sports: Who is good at football? Who is good
at gymnastics? Who can rollerblade fast? Who can ride fast? When they have
finished the story, check comprehension by asking them to match sentence
halves:
Olga has got and score lots of goals.
Look at Lucy go! She can walk on her hands.
Karim can run fast Karim’s football shirt.
Olga is good at gymnastics. She can ride fast.
Finishing off
Ask the children to put their books face down on their desks. Read out a
sentence from the story (caption or speech bubble) and signal to the children
to turn over their books and find the sentence. When they have found it, they
raise their hands. Elicit the scene number from the children.
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Karim is wearing his football shirt. False Lucy is in the cycling race. False
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It’s nearly two o’clock. True Olga has got Tom’s bag. False
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Students develop Linguistic competence by revising the story from the previous lesson. Comprehension
is checked by ordering pictures and then answering true or false questions about the story. These
activities help develop literacy skills and students’ self confidence.
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7 Order the pictures, then read and write True or False.
Vocabulary:
Ask the children to look at and number the scenes in the same order as they
basketball, cycling, football,
appear in the Student’s Book. Then, write the first sentence on the board: It’s
gymnastics, rollerblading,
nearly two o’clock. Ask the children to look at their Student’s Books and say
skiing, swimming, tennis
whether the sentence is true or false.
Structures:
He likes tennis. 8 Read the story and complete.
She doesn’t like cycling. Ask the class to tell you the names of the characters from the story: Lucy, Tom,
She can ride a bike. Olga, Karim, boy, girl. Write the following sentence on the board: ___ is good at
rollerblading. Ask the children to look at the story and say the character’s name
to complete the sentence (Tom). Tell the children to read the sentences and
complete them with a character’s name.
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rollerblade very fast.
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Finishing off
Divide the class into pairs. Ask the children to write down two sports they can
do and two sports they can’t. Then get them to ask each other questions and
to make notes about each other. When they have finished, ask for volunteers
to read out their results. S1: His name is (Daniel). He can (ride a bike) and he
can (play football). He can’t (ski) and he can’t (juggle). Continue the process
with the other children.
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Students develop and consolidate competence in Knowledge and interaction with the physical
world by conducting a personal interview with a classmate. Students must get information and
report back about his or her abilities playing different sports.
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Students develop Linguistic competence by perfecting their writing skills. This provides structured
guided practice where students write sentences.
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Finishing off
Ask the children to invent a character. Tell them to draw their character and
write a description of her/him. This is Mike. He can climb trees. He can juggle
100 balls and he can ride a bike. Exhibit the children’s work and encourage
them to walk around, talking about their posters.
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Finishing off
Play Pictionary. Divide the class into three teams. Slowly start to draw part of
a vocabulary item on the board, for example, a pencil case. Ask: What’s the
object? Encourage the children to ask: Is it a (pencil case)? Give a point to
the first team that guesses correctly. Repeat with other vocabulary items from
previous units, or ask volunteers to the board to draw vocabulary items for the
class to guess.
Resources
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Finishing off
Ask the children to write a small paragraph about Sports day in their school.
When they have finished, ask for volunteers to read out what they have
written. Tell the children to refer to the sports vocabulary in the unit if they
want. Tell them they can invent a Sports day, if their school does not hold one.
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Students develop Cultural and artistic competence by learning about the English cultural tradition
of Sports Day. Students listen to the descriptions of different races and identify the photos that
match the description.
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Students develop Autonomy and personal initiative by inventing a character with a personalised
drawing and description. Later, students share their work with the class talking about their posters.
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Beep and Robby are in the mountains. Beep doesn’t like skiing but Robby can ski very
Robby likes skiing. fast.
Come on Beep, This is fantastic!
let’s go!
Oh yes!
I like skiing!
Be careful
Robby! Weeee!
Robby can ski very fast! Look at Robby now! He can fly!
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Students develop Linguistic competence and comprehension by following the logical deduction of
sequencing in a story. By identifying the correct order of events, children are able to enjoy simple
humour.
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then writing in the words. This activity helps children to be included in the learning process of
creating their own materials for reference.
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Finishing off
Write the following words on the board: painting, swimming, basketball, pizza,
reading. Say: Write one thing you like and one thing you don’t like. Tell the
children to stand in a circle, (where possible) boy/girl, boy/girl. Each child
gives their answers to the child on the right. Ask for a strong volunteer to give
the answer: (Marta) likes (pizza), (she) doesn’t like (painting). The child to the
left gives his/her answer, continuing until they complete the circle.
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