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Topic 9 - Talking About Sports and Exercise
Topic 9 - Talking About Sports and Exercise
Topic 9 - Talking About Sports and Exercise
Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
Vocabulary
Soccer
Discussion
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Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
Listening
A. People are talking about sports and exercise. Listen and number the pictures.
A B C
D E F
Look at this statement “the government has acknowledged professional video gamers as athletes”. Do
you consider them as real athletes or not?
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Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
A. Read the text about the importance of sports for children’s health. Reading
Sport helps children to develop both physically and mentally. Physical activity
should be part of our daily life. Practicing any kind of sport from an early age helps
children in many ways; for example, group activities improve interaction and
social integration. It also improves the mental level and promotes a healthy
lifestyle in adulthood, as the habits we acquire as children are often to stay. Sports
have multiple healthy benefits. If we talk on a psychological or personality level,
sports activities (especially those done in groups) help children to strengthen their
social self-esteem and allow them to understand the importance of having and
respecting the rules.
Another aspect to consider is what type of sport or activity will suit best the child considering his/her
conditions and abilities. A timider child is likely to get better at a sport where she/he has to relate to
peers. To a more active one, an individual sport such as tennis can help better develop her/his ability to
concentrate. One of the perhaps most relevant issues is the importance of physical exercise, not only in
children but also in young and old people, because moderate daily physical exercise helps prevent
overweight and obesity. Considering the growth of the percentage of children and young people with
obesity and overweight in the Western world, the inclusion of sport in the family routine becomes
almost mandatory. Sport can also have the power to help us rest. For all those fathers and mothers of
active children, try to get them to run every day playing soccer, or swimming or any other activity that
keeps them physically active.
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Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
My Favorite Sport
My name is David Ligorio and I’m 11 years old. I’m Italian and my favorite sport is soccer. I play soccer
twice a week at school and I have soccer practice on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the
afternoon.
On Saturday afternoon I usually have a match with my team. I am the goal keeper. We are very good at
soccer, and we often win. Of course, I’m in the school team, too. On Sunday’s afternoon I play soccer
with my friends in the park. My favorite team is Milan and I hope to be a champion goal keeper such as
Sebastiano Rossi.
Speaking
A. Listen to the conversation. Then, practice B. In pairs, write a dialogue using the vocabulary about
the dialogue with a partner. sports and exercises.
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Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
For example:
I love to play soccer. I used to play basketball in high school In her free time, she plays tennis.
For example:
I go jogging in the morning with my husband. We go fishing every summer Let’s go swimming
For example:
She likes to do yoga. John does aerobics with Samantha I do karate on Tuesdays
Important note:
Make is not used in English to talk about sports.
Practice is rarely used to talk about sports. it is only used to talk about professional athletes
who need to practice their skills before a game or an important event. The average person
does not practice a sport.
Practice
Instructions: Choose the correct colocation form where it corresponds (play, go or do). Remember to
use the correct form depending on noun.
Example:
I go running everyday after work. / Shes goes running everyday after work.
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Colegio Universitario de Limón
Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
Writing
A. Write a short paragraph about your favorite exercise or sport. Include information about how often
you do it, when and where you do it and who you do it with.
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Teacher’s feedback
Take into account your teacher’s feedback and rewrite your paragraph with the corrections.
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Colegio Universitario de Limón
Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
Instructions: Stand up and ask your classmates if they do, have done, or like any of the following sports
or exercises. Write their names under the picture. Then, share it orally.
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Colegio Universitario de Limón
Empleate English A1
Topic #9 Talking about sports and exercise
Week 6
Speaking
Oral presentation
In groups of four choose one sport to talk about. Take into consideration the following aspects:
Other aspects:
Prepare a presentation about it. DO NOT put a lot of information on the presentation, use
pictures or videos instead.
Use Canva or Genially. Share the link of your work with your teacher.
Add animations and transitions to do an attractive presentation.
Avoid reading during the presentation.