Jay Doubleyou: teaching sport in the esl/esol/tefl class

1. A motivational team talk - This Literacy Through Sport session focuses on how to inspire a team to victory. Children will write their own motivational speech in character as the coach. It is their responsibility to draw out the hero within each player. See this lesson.

2. Sport journalistic writing - Here is a lesson based on the 1966 Football World Cup final- Children will write their own commentary about a sporting event of their choice. See this lesson.

3. Healthy, inside and out - This Literacy Through Sport session focuses on overall health and helps children to gain an understanding of what being healthy, actually is before writing either an informative leaflet, a recipe for a healthy body and mind or a write a report about one specific health issue. See the lesson.

4. A sporting event, persuasion - Imagine if your home town could host an incredible sports competition! This session is based on writing a report to persuade the local community to host a major, sporting event. Children will develop their ideas before writing their own letter to an MP. See the lesson.

5. A sports biography - This Literacy through sport session will provide an opportunity for the children to find out about inspirational, sportspeople so they can write a biography. See the lesson.

6. Sporting suspense - This Literacy through sport session is based on the children writing a short piece about a tense moment in a sports situation. They will use their senses and powerful sentences to write an exciting piece. See the lesson.

Literacy through sport - using sport to inspire writing

Here's going deeper:

Ten Tips On Writing About Sport | Writers & Artists

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WATCHING AND LISTENING TO SPORT

REALIA:

It really is going to help your language if you watch/listen to something you're interested in:

Watching (e)sports with commentary in the language you are trying to learn : r/languagelearning

We can listen to real live sport:

Jay Doubleyou: sport on the radio - in english

But we prefer to watch it, for example highlights of the match:

Sky Sports Premier League - YouTube

Let's have a closer look at the different types of commentary:

If golf and soccer switched announcers - YouTube

We can also watch comedy about sport:

Two Ronnies Squash sketch - YouTube

Monty Python Olympics - YouTube

Monty Python Philosophy Football - YouTube

LEARNING MATERIALS

There are also a lot of ready-made lessons to help with watching and listening to sport:

Some lessons:

Do the Preparation task first. Then watch the video and do the first Task. Before continuing with the rest of the activities, watch the video again. If you need help, you can read the Transcript at any time.

Sport Scene 1 | LearnEnglish

WOTS: Sport | LearnEnglish

These programmes will teach you easy English about sport and exercise

BBC Learning English - Sport and Exercise - topic

Let's look at football:

Welcome to the website that helps students interested in football improve their English language skills. Football fans can practise with lots of free language resources, including a weekly football-language podcast, a football phrase of the week and our huge football-language glossary.

Home - Learn English Through Football

And then you can talk about it!

Talk About Sports in English - Improve Spoken English Conversation - YouTube

Jay Doubleyou

Friday, 28 February 2025

teaching sport in the esl/esol/tefl class

GIVING A PRESENTATION ON SPORT

READY-MADE LESSONS FROM BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH:

ISSUES IN SPORT:

GO, PLAY OR DO?

RACQUET, BAT OR PADDLE?

WRITING ABOUT SPORT

WATCHING AND LISTENING TO SPORT

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