Revision of the Sport's week

Woah! This was quite a week. Here you have the summary of what we have posted this week:

1. An Olympic blog - reading

The very first post of the Sport's week focuses on reading as well as introduces some more common vocabulary to familiarize your studdents with.





2. Let's get the ball rolling! Let's talk sports!

This one is about teaching speaking and vocab. There are a few basic ideas of what you can ask your students and what words are necessary for them to feel more confident at this subject.

Sporty idioms

Hello!
Since Ania's idea of presenting idioms was a full success and all of us enjoyed it, now it's time for somebody else to continue. I hope you have fun!

If you want to know where the idioms come from look for the sport disciplines in brackets.

the ball is in your court (tennis)	You need to answer or react		-What should I do now? * I don’t know, the ball is in your court.
blow the competition away (any sport)	win easily		If you do your best, you will blow the competition away.
get a head start (horse racing)	start earlier than the others/ have advantage over somebody		If you want to avoid traffic jams, leave at 3 o’clock – you will get a head start.

COMPETITION – can you lose the game?

Competition is an inevitable part of sport. I bet that almost all of our readers (and bloggers too) are keen on winning! But who doesn’t like that? J

However, when there is a winner, there also has to be a loser, which is especially painful when you play for a high stake. 

And how about you? How do you cope with losing?

Look at the words below – which of them collocate with play (P) and which with go (G)?

SURFING      BASKETBALL         RUNNING    BADMINTON          HORSE RACING JOGGING            RUGBY         CRICKET      CYCLING     VOLLEYBALL       SWIMMING SQUASH            ROLLERBADING   FOOTBALL  SKIING      WINDSURFING  TENNIS

Read the information about the video:

"TWO RONNIES - SQUASH GAME" presents the story of two friends Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker. In this episode both Ronnies have just had a game of squash. Barker has never played before but Corbett is the local squash champion. After the game Ronnie Corbett is a little bit nervous.

Why do you think he is finding it difficult to keep calm?

Narratives

Many students consider writing a narrative the easiest among all types of written assignments. But is this really the case?

In fact, narratives are the most difficult to write. First of all, they involve a lot of planning beforehand. What is even more important is the fact that narratives require the use of numerous adjectives and adverbs to make the story flow – the knowledge of which students usually lack. Nevertheless, we can definitely make it easier for our students to learn useful methods and strategies to write a gripping story.

Following are some useful tips concerning narratives as well as two exercises that will expand students’ knowledge of more sophisticated vocabulary items.

Vocabulary - sport

Sport is a universal topic to discuss. Surely all students will be eager to learn some new vocabulary which they need to talk about their favourite sport disciplines.

1. Match equipments with their names:

net        helmet     cap     racket     club      shin pads

Equipment pictures

2. Guess from the context what the underlined words mean. Write their Polish equivalents:

• We all cheered as the team came on to the field.
• He played well in the team’s 2–2 draw with Southampton.
• There were more skiers further up the slope.
• He missed a penalty in the last minute of the game.  (in soccer)
• The new football stadium will hold 75 000 spectators.
• He has knocked out 15 opponents in 20 fights.

Let's get the ball rolling! Let's talk sports!

Today we are going to move our students from their comfortable sofas and do some speaking push ups :) But don't worry, even if you are out of shape, you'll catch up with our pace easily.

Actually, no serious workout today (I hate push ups, what about you?). Let's start with some warming up activities that will encourage our students to use sport-related vocabulary in speaking. Besides, it is said that a good warm-up is the most important part of your workout and the key to success. I bet it is the same with speaking!

An Olympic blog - reading

We all know that exercising is important but these days most of young people aren’t getting enough. An average young person spends as much as thirty hours a week in front of TV. Researchers at the University of Tennessee have recently found out that 'couch potatoes' burn fewer calories when they watch TV than when they’re asleep!

Our BuildUpYourEnglishSuperpower team strongly opposes laziness and encourages you to keep in shape. Perhaps, if such an average 'couch potato' watched some Olympics he’d be motivated to get up and do some sport :)

But for now, let’s read the blogger's memories of the 2012 London Olympics (see below).

After reading, do some exercises to check if you understand the text correctly. Good luck! :)

New week - new challenges: sports!

Hi there everyone!

We're beginning the second week on our blog. This week's tasks will surely get to the hearts of the masculine part of your students as the topic is about SPORTS.

We're going to present you a wide range of materials that you'll be able to use during your English classes.

And, btw, thanks for so many visits in the very first week of our blog. We have surpassed the threshold of 1000 views since the launch. Thanks a lot and we're looking forward to more visits and comments.


See you!