Sports and hobbies
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ArticleTheme-based expressions: football
Keep your eye on the ball with Tim Bowen as he kicks off these theme-based expressions about the beautiful game.
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ArticleFootball fanatics
This mini-play features a father and son from Yorkshire, who are on a long-distance journey to a football match. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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ArticleLeisure and Tourism
Activities to encourage students to think critically about the impact of tourism: its benefits and disadvantages for countries, and its promises and pitfalls for travellers.
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ArticleElementary news lesson: The country where football continues
May 2020: With fans really missing live games, the Belarussian league has signed TV deals with several countries.
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Elementary news lesson: Argentina's football coach loses his job
May 2017: Edgardo Bauza was sacked after only eight matches, when some bad results meant that Argentina might not play in the 2018 World Cup.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Sport
In this lesson focusing on sport, students learn how to describe the benefits of sport and how to use persuasive language.
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The history of football hooliganism
A lesson plan about the long history of football hooliganism. Students can read about some of that history in this article on violent fans of the most popular game in the world.
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Sports: Two sides of a sport
What are the positive and negative aspects of sport? In this lesson plan, students listen to an overview of the good and bad aspects of practising a sport. A true/false exercise and gap-fill teaches words such as ‘fan’, ‘train’, ‘cheat’, ‘team’ and ‘winner’. A follow-up debate activity gets students to ...
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ArticleThe History of Basketball
When a Canadian teacher was trying to think of a way to keep his students fit during the winter months little did he know that he was about to invent the most popular indoor sport in the world: basketball, now played in over 150 countries. In this worksheet students learn ...
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: What I've learned: Tony Hawk
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, the American skateboarder Tony Hawk gives advice on how to turn your passion into your profession.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: football
Tim Bowen won't let us down with this selection of football-related phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Idioms: sport
Tim Bowen gets the ball rolling with these sport-related idioms.
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Dictionary skills: Sports
A sports lesson, to give learners practice in using the dictionary to check meaning and for vocabulary development.