Sport Challenges: Listening

19 Outubro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Warm-up: Pair work activity: Half of the students got pictures depicting sports, other half had the name of the sports on a piece of paper. They had to stand up, and find their matching partner. Then they had to work together and give a short definition of the sport selected in front of the class. Using key expressions such as group—individual sport, racing/ combat/ water/ winter/extreme sport, ball game, racket game, etc.

Vocabulary: scuba diving, snorkelling, hang gliding, diving, fencing, horse riding, cycling, kitesurfing, water ski, surfing, judo, swimming: breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, butterfly stroke

All drawings were fixed on the Whiteboard with blu tack.

Pair work activity: Each student had to choose 3 sports from the whiteboard she or he had already tried, and 3 she or he had not, then speak about their experiences and dreams to be fulfilled.

Individual work: Reading exercise:  Exercise B B1.2 Workbook , page 24

Vocabulary exercise: Exercise C, page 24.

DVD Speaking Out Intermediate by Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson: Exercise D, page 24.

CD Speaking Out Intermediate by Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson: Listening comprehension: An Achievement, page 25.

Group work: Exercise C-D, page 25.

Homework: Read the short story: “You Are now Entering the Human Heart” by Janet Frame, page 30-32.