Note: This is an excerpt from Teaching English: 25 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking
No matter where you’re teaching in the world your students will know sports. That’s why this is one of the go-to lessons for all new ESL teachers, and an old favorite for the more experienced folks.
I did a sports lesson for each age group I taught and across all skill levels in the 5 years I taught English in China. There are hundreds of ways to go about teaching sports, but a few things are common across all lessons.
These include things like vocabulary, pictures, grammar, and of course games. The following chapter will show you slides from two different ESL sports PowerPoints I used throughout the years, one made by me and another by a fellow ESL teacher.
I’ve used them both as well as lots of extras not here. Hopefully they’ll give you some ideas on what you can do to get your kids not only speaking English, but making improvements in it as well.
No matter where you’re teaching in the world your students will know sports. That’s why this is one of the go-to lessons for all new ESL teachers, and an old favorite for the more experienced folks.
I did a sports lesson for each age group I taught and across all skill levels in the 5 years I taught English in China. There are hundreds of ways to go about teaching sports, but a few things are common across all lessons.
These include things like vocabulary, pictures, grammar, and of course games. The following chapter will show you slides from two different ESL sports PowerPoints I used throughout the years, one made by me and another by a fellow ESL teacher.
I’ve used them both as well as lots of extras not here. Hopefully they’ll give you some ideas on what you can do to get your kids not only speaking English, but making improvements in it as well.
Sports Images
Like all these PPTs, I like to use lots of images. In this first PowerPoint I have 11 different sports, most of them pretty common. I made this for Grade 5 students, which are more low-level than you’d think in China.
For this PowerPoint I followed a simple format: 1 picture slide, 1 explanation slide, and then 1 picture slide again. So for a PPT like this you’d have 33 slides alone for the different sports.
For this PowerPoint I followed a simple format: 1 picture slide, 1 explanation slide, and then 1 picture slide again. So for a PPT like this you’d have 33 slides alone for the different sports.
ESL Baseball lesson
I like to pause on the big pictures and let students talk amongst themselves for a few moments. After awhile I’ll start to point things out and elicit from students what they think they are.
ESL Baseball PowerPoint
After awhile we’ll go to the explanation slide, which students can read aloud or you can read to them. I like to put some pictures here as well, giving you more things to talk about.
Finally another large picture slide rounds things out and gives you a few more minutes of class to kill.
ESL Basketball lesson
This next PowerPoint, which I simply call Sports 2, is a really good one for higher levels and students that need to focus more on pronunciation and grammar. It also has some fun pictures to look at as well.
English Basketball Verbs
What’s great about this Sports PowerPoint is that you focus on verbs, and not only what they are, but how to use them in different tenses and how to pronounce them correctly.
ESL Basketball words
ESL past tense PowerPoints
ESL grammar lessons
Overall this is a great lesson, and also a great template for you to follow with other PowerPoints that are grammar-heavy. Just these three slides can really create marked improvements in your students in a matter of weeks.
ESL sports quiz
After the students start to get bored of picture and explanation slides, why not throw in a game that tests their knowledge, and rewards those who were taking notes?
These next few pictures show you a few game slides from this PPT, which you can buy on this website for $0.99. I’m sure you can take these ideas and make your own games as well, however, and I bet your students will be smiling and laughing a lot at what you can come up with.
These next few pictures show you a few game slides from this PPT, which you can buy on this website for $0.99. I’m sure you can take these ideas and make your own games as well, however, and I bet your students will be smiling and laughing a lot at what you can come up with.
ESL word scramble
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