7 metodika indd

Activity 1b Play I like/I don’t like. 5 min

Objective: to revise words related to sport

The pupils play a game, e.g. I like snowboarding but I don’t like boxing.

Activity 1c Complete the posters. 10 min

Objective: to establish where to use “play”, “do” and “go” with sports

STEP 1: Put three posters on the wall in different parts of the class. On the first poster draw a ball and a racket. Write a word “play” on the left and ask the pupils to give the words which go with the word “play” from Activity 1a.

Ask the pupils to give other suggestions. Add with their help: play chess, play handball, play basketball.

Complete the poster for “Go”, and then with “Do”. Use the notes below if necessary.

Note: Play is generally used with team sports and those sports that need a ball or similar object (puck, shuttlecock...). Also, those activities in which two people or teams compete against each other: play football, play tennis, play chess. Go is used with activities and sports that end in -ing. The verb go here implies that we go somewhere to practise this sport: go swimming. Exception: do boxing/body building/weightlifting. Do is used with recreational activities and with individual, non-team sports or sports in which a ball is not used, like martial arts, for example: do a crossword/ puzzle, do athletics, do karate.