These templates are great for helping your esl young learners consolidate more than just the sports vocabulary you see depicted in the pictures. Use them to activate useful structures too and even as speaking props in dialogues.

You can choose whether to focus mainly on listening, speaking or even reading and writing – the choice of templates and activity suggestions make it easy to differentiate according to your needs.

 Sports vocabulary

hockey, rollerskating, swimming, tennis, football, baseball, cycling, basketball, karate, running, yoga, volleyball, golf, badminton, table tennis, gymnastics

Structures + Grammar

• ‘can’ for ability

e.g. I can play basketball. Can you do it? I can do it.

• Describing frequency

e.g. I sometimes/never play football

• Present simple with verb collocations

e.g. She plays tennis. They do yoga. He swims / He goes swimming.

• Present continuous

e.g. You are playing badminton. I am doing yoga.

• Expressing likes/dislikes

e.g. My favourite sport is… / I like/don’t like/don’t mind/hate…

Classroom language

Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s.. It’s…

Can you find…? I can see … Where’s….? Here it is! It’s here. Where does this go? Like this?

Whose turn is it? It’s my turn. It’s your turn. Turn it over. Pick one.

Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Colours, pencil, crayons, pens, scissors, paper, card, cut, fold, open, trace