Sports | EFL Resource Pack for Active Sports Themed English Lessons

Sport provides a natural way to get learners moving, talking, thinking, and working together in English. This pack brings together six practical classroom resources designed to develop sports vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, presentation, critical thinking, and problem solving through active and collaborative learning.

Across the pack, students take part in movement and vocabulary games, picture discussion activities, quizzes, creative challenges, sports commentary, logical deduction, journalism tasks, and quick classroom games. The resources build naturally from introducing and practising sports vocabulary through to more challenging communication and problem solving tasks, whilst each can also be used independently to suit your class and lesson aims.

What’s Included:

• Sports in Motion – 48 printable Sports Movement Cards with active games and challenges for introducing and reviewing sports action verbs through movement, charades, sorting, discussion, and teamwork.
• Sports Snapshots – Six sports photographs and structured discussion activities where learners describe scenes, identify visual clues, make inferences and predictions, justify their ideas, and create newspaper style headlines.
• Beyond the Sport – A Sporting Superstars Quiz and creative team challenge exploring how famous athletes make an impact beyond their sport, developing listening, discussion, teamwork, creativity, and presentation skills.
• Commentary Lab – Sports commentary activities that explore authentic language, sports specific vocabulary, pace, tone, and expression before learners write, rehearse, and perform their own live commentaries.
• Sports Desk – A collaborative football logic and information puzzle where students become sports journalists, gather clues from different news sources, share information, and use reading, speaking, teamwork, and logical deduction to reconstruct an international football tournament.
• Sporting Shorts – Ten quick sports themed warmers, fillers, and revision activities, including printable Sports Name Cards and a Truth or Lie challenge, designed to provide flexible speaking, vocabulary, and teamwork activities whenever you need them.

These resources are also available to download individually.

Perfect For:

• TEFL, EAL, ESL and EFL classrooms
• Sports themed speaking, vocabulary and communication lessons
• Collaborative learning, critical thinking and problem solving
• English weeks, project lessons, summer schools and activity based learning

Please Note: Once you have completed your purchase, you will receive a PDF to download and print. This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.