Grades English Teacher

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 topractise 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. 
 
STEP 2: Play “Ball”. Start: throw a ball to Pupil 1 and say, e.g.: “basketball”. Pupil 1 catches the ball 
and says: “play basketball”. Then Pupil 1 throws the ball to Pupil 2 and says, e.g.: “cycling”. Pupil 2 
must say: “go cycling”, etc.