Sports: do yoga, go jogging, play badminton, play tennis, go swimming, do gymnastics, do karate, take an aerobics class, play volleyball, go skiing, go ice-skating, play basketball, go cycling
Lisa asks Mandy how she stays healthy. Mandy says she exercises every day, doing yoga in the morning and jogging in the afternoon. On weekends, she goes to Boosty’s Fitness Club to play sports. Lisa wants to try it too, so they go together. They do a fun warm-up. Does Lisa like it? Watch the video to find out.
To check learners’ understanding of the video.
There are 3 activities practising the same questions and answers in order to integrate skills. This also serves the purpose of spaced repetition and exposure to language. Students can do the same task in three or four different ways.
All activities can be run individually, in small groups or as a whole class.
The three tasks can also be run on different days as a follow up and revision (creating a sense of continuity for the video series)
Task 1. Flashcards
Task 2. Matching
Task 3. Practice
Provided on Flippity
To help learner to practice and learn vocabulary and grammar related to body parts and movements, as well as improve their pronunciation and ability to give instructions using the imperative form.
The Aeroplane activity can be done individually or in pairs (students take it in turns to fly the aeroplane and go through the maze respectively).
There are 3 extra activities exploiting the same target language, which can be done in groups or as a whole class. These can be done in the same lesson, or, alternatively, over a couple of lessons to review the target language.
The quiz & Open the box activities offer an opportunity for the teacher to get students to demonstrate each correct and/or wrong answer, adding fun and a kinaesthetic element to the activity.
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To practice and review the names of sports and activities from the video, develop learner’s speaking and listening skills related to sports and activities they can and can’t do.
Conveyor belt
Random wheel / Random cards / Open the box
The conveyor belt
Random wheel, Random cards & Open the box activities
The conveyor belt
This could be run as a competition with students frequently changing partners.
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This activity helps students practise pronunciation of different sports and activities.
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To helps learner review and practice the language they learned in the video and previous lessons, learn new vocabulary related to body parts and movements, work collaboratively with their classmates, and create their own “I can…” statements using the target language.
The game should be played as a whole class. It is very important that students understand that they work as a team, not individually.
As a follow-up, regroup students and ask the new teams to create their own instructions to continue playing the game.
The teacher could quickly transfer students’ I can… statements on to Flippity and continue playing the game via flippity.
The game introduces new vocabulary:
lips, thumb, knee, ankle
once, twice, three times
hop, wiggle, cover, rub
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The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.
