Vocabulary Worksheet:

Sports Activities
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 Preparation Notes for the Teachers
In this sports vocabulary worksheet, you are going to find ESL vocabulary exercises that will help
students expand their vocabulary of sports action words and talk and answer questions about
sports, sports activities, and the benefits of practicing sports. The worksheet includes vocabulary
exercises on these topics, tailored to elementary (A1-A2) students.

Required time: 45 - 60 min

To prepare:

To warm up, ask your students “What’s your favorite sport?”, then list two activities each that you
can “do”, “play” or “go”. Check if they understand the difference between these three and explain it
with practical examples, like “I like to play tennis.”,“I do yoga”, “I go swimming on the weekends.”

Ask students if they do any of these sports activities, and encourage them to say full sentences with
the correct verbs that accompany a specific sport or activity. Next, ask students to explain why
playing sports is good. Give an example: Sports is good because it makes us healthy and strong.

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 Sports Activities
In this worksheet, you will learn to talk about sports and action words that describe sports activities.

You will also learn how to talk and answer questions about sports and sports activities, why people
like sports, and why sports are good.

What’s your favorite sport? Do you like swimming? Do you play tennis? Why do you like sports?
Why is sports good for you? Give an example.

Discuss the questions briefly with your teacher and the class, then answer the questions in Exercise
A, B, C, and D.

Read the questions before answering to make sure you understand them.

EXERCISE A. Vocabulary: Various Activities

1. Use the words in the table to fill in the columns below. There are 25 words in total.

tennis swimming gymnastics jogging football ice-skating judo cycling skiing

surfing karate badminton skateboarding fishing hiking volleyball yoga diving
dancing snowboarding hockey horse riding taekwondo soccer weightlifting

PLAY GO DO

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EXERCISE B. Use of Sports Action Words
2. Read and complete the sentences (a-j) with the correct words from the table in Exercise A.
Some sentences can have more than one correct answer.

a) Do you want to go___________________ with me?

b) Let’s do ___________________ together in the park!

c) I can’t go ___________________ in the lake. It is too cold today!

d) I love the winter because I can go ___________________ and ___________________.

e) My sister plays ___________________ every Monday and Friday.

f) My brother never ___________________ hiking when it is raining.

g) Jenny and I ___________________ gymnastics on Thursday.

h) My mother and her friend Molly ___________________ badminton every weekend.

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Exercise C. Reading: Talking About Sports
Read the text, then answer the questions in exercises 3 and 4.

WHY I LIKE SPORTS

Hi!

My name is Agatha and I love sports. My favorite sports are skateboarding and volleyball.

I go skateboarding with my friend Liz every Friday and Sunday in the skatepark near our
homes. My sister Carrie taught me how to skateboard when I was 6 years old. I love
skateboarding because it is fast and fun and you can do many tricks!

I like to play volleyball, too because I can play together with my classmates at school. We
have a volleyball team called “Volleybees” and every year we go to competitions with
teams from other schools.

I love to do sports with my friends and I think that it is good because I feel happy and
healthy.

3. Use the words to make correct questions, then answer the questions.

a) Question: are/Agatha’s/sports/What/favorite/?

Answer:

b) Question: ?/name/of/friend/Agatha’s/is/What

Answer:

c) Question: Where/skateboarding/go/Agatha/does/?

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Answer:

4. Read and answer the questions.

a) What is your favorite sport?

b) Where do you play your favorite sport?

c) Do you like to do yoga?

d) Does your best friend like to play volleyball?

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Exercise D. Interview: Talking about Sports
5. Now interview one of your classmates with the questions below. Write down his/ her
answers, then read them in class.

a) What is your favorite sport?

b) How often do you play your favorite sports?

c) Where do you usually play sports?

d) Why do you like sports?

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 KEY
EXERCISE A

Play - tennis, football, badminton, volleyball, hockey, soccer

Go - swimming, jogging, ice-skating, cycling, skiing, surfing, fishing, hiking, diving, dancing,
snowboarding, horse riding, diving

Do - gymnastics, judo, karaoke, yoga, taekwondo, weightlifting

EXERCISE B

a)What are Agatha’s favorite sports? A: Skateboarding and volleyball. b)What is the name of
Agatha’s friend? A: Liz c)Where does Agatha go skateboarding? In the skatepark near her home.

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KEY

Exercise A

1. A-5, B-4, C-1, D-3, E-2, F-6

Exercise B

1. a) hasn’t got; b) have got; c) has got; d) hasn’t got; e) has got; f) have got

2. a) has/ got/ Answer: Yes, it has.

b) have/ got/ Answer: Yes, they have.

c) has/ got/ Answer: No, it hasn’t. It has got a short tail.

d) has/ got/ Answer: No, it hasn’t. It has got roofs.

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