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© BBC | British Council 2011

English for 2012

Topic: Olympic bingo

Aims: To practise present simple statements and questions, and frequencyadverbs, through listening, reading and speaking about Olympic sports

Level: Elementary CEFR A2 (teenage/adult)

Introduction:

In this lesson students learn about Olympic sports, and practise making sentencesusing frequency adverbs.

Time: 60 minutes

Materials provided:

Worksheet 1 (Matching sports and definitions cue cards)Worksheet 2 (Reading comprehension dialogue)Worksheet 3 (Olympic bingo cards)Worksheet 4 (Extension)

Stage Aim Procedure

1 Warmer

Matching

sports

Worksheet 1

•

The students work in small groups.• Before class, copy Worksheet 1 (one per

group) and cut it up into individual cards (usethe lines marked on the sheet).

• Mix up the sports and the definitions.• Distribute one set of cards and definitions to

each group.• Set the task. Each group must match the sports

and the definitions. The first group to finish withcorrect matches wins.

• Elicit the sports events and their definitions and

correct as necessary.2. Reading

comprehen-

sion

Worksheet 2

• The students work in pairs.• Distribute Worksheet 2 (one per student).• They read the passage and ask each other the

questions in Exercise 1.• Elicit the answers.• Go through the passage and make sure

everyone understands it.• Ask the students to complete Exercise 2.• Elicit the questions and correct as necessary.

Answers Exercise 1:

1. Peter likes cycling.






2. No, she doesn’t.3. No, he doesn’t.4. Yes, he does.5. He prefers off the road.

6. He loves being outdoors.7. She goes swimming every Saturday morning.8. They want to see relay swimming,

synchronised swimming and all the cyclingevents (BMX, mountain biking, road cycling,and track cycling).

Answers: Exercise 2

1. How often do you go swimming?2. How many times a week/How often do you go

swimming?3. When do you play tennis?4. How often/ When do you play football?5. Where do you go mountain biking?6. Where is the football field?7. Why does Peter play table tennis in winter?8. Where is the swimming pool?9. Who does Peter play tennis with?10. What does Peter want to watch in the

Olympics?

3. Olympic

Bingo

Writing

Worksheet 3

• Before class, cut Worksheet 3 into 5 cards.• Keep the teacher’s BINGO card for yourself.• The students work in five groups.• Explain BINGO. You will call a word. If the word

is on one of the cards they must tick it off.• As soon as they have enough words they can

make a complete sentence. They must add theword ‘I’.

• When they have a complete sentence thegroup shouts, ‘Bingo!’

•

Stop the class and elicit the sentence. If thesentence is correct the group WINS 1 point per word. If wrong, they LOSE 1 point per word.

• Continue until all the words on the teacher’ssheet are used up.

• The groups calculate. Whoever has the mostpoints wins the game.

4. Extension:

Ideas for collaborating

• The students work together as a group.• Distribute Worksheet 4.•

They compile a table on the board of their favourite sports.






with other

schools

Worksheet 4

• They include official names and symbols, mainclubs, and names of key sports personalities(with photos if available –check copyright) andthe reasons for their choice.

• They can do this for their class, their institutionor for a group of institutions.

• They compile a list of the top ten sports for thearea, using the results of all the schools in thesurvey.

• Share the table with regional and overseasschools.

Documents

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