Live Lesson Notes Sports Flashcards
A great tool to find collocations
http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/sporthttp://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/sport
http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/sport
IELTS Speaking Vocabulary: Sports
Warm up
Fill in the gap with one word
1. I like to ______ sports, especially team sports
2. I am not very _____ , I prefer to read books at home.
3. I have been ____ yoga for 2 years
- I like to do / play / watch / practice sports, especially team sports
- I am not very sporty / active , I prefer to read books at home.
- I have been doing / practicing yoga for 2 years.
Essential Vocabulary
Sport (n. - countable)
Which sport do you practice?
I like doing winter sports, like skiing and skating
Sport (n. - uncountable)
I did a lot of sport when I was younger, I don’t do much sport these
days.
To sport (v.) = to wear
She is sporting a fashionable red hat.
Sporty (adj.) = someone who enjoys doing sport
I am not really the sporty type
There are different verbs we can use with the word ‘sport’ and also
different sports will take different verbs
Verb + Sport
Do sports
Play sports
Practice sports (more serious)
I like to play many different sports
I mainly do sports on the weekend
Play soccer / football / tennis
We usually use ‘play’ for competitive team sports
Do yoga / pilates / judo
We usually use ‘do’ for individual sports without a ball
IELTS Speaking: Doing Sports
Below we have some different ways of saying ‘I like’ a sport
- I’m into _____
- I’m keen on _____
- I’m a big fan of _______
- I’m one for _____
- I really dig _______
I’m keen on playing football
I really dig basketball
Which sport did you practice as a child?
* I used to ____
* I played____
* I was into ___
* I would ____
I used to play football at school. I played in goals. I was really into
football actually. We would also play everyday in the break between
classes.
Which sports do you do now?
* I’m into _____
* I currently play / do ______
* At the moment, I am doing ______
* I’m fond of _______
I’m into basketball nowadays, I currently play every Saturday.
At the moment, I am playing for a local team in a local league
Grammar Rule
When a preposition is followed by a verb,
that verb needs to be in the gerund (the ING form)
Preposition + verb (+ING)
I’m interested IN + hikING
I am keen ON + swimmING
Do you prefer to do sports or watch them?
Listen to the first answer and note any interesting collocations or
phrasal verbs
https://vimeo.com/745345847
I must confess,
although I played lots of sport as a kid, nowadays I just don’t get round to it. (Find time to do something) After working all day, I prefer to _slump down_ (to drop, to collapse) in front of the telly and watch a good football match.
I guess I have become a bit of a couch potato (a person who spends too much time on the sofa. Someone who is lazy or bone idle)
A couch = a sofa
To slouch = to sit but not straight, with a bad posture
slump down ~ Crumple :
، (روی زمین) ولو شدن، نقش بر زمین شدن،
Do you prefer to do sports or watch them?
Listen to the second answer and note any interesting collocations or
phrasal verbs
Link here: https://vimeo.com/745346036
Well, I watch the occasional football match or game of golf,
but I am not an avid sports fan, (a big sports fan)
to be honest.
There is not much difficult vocabulary with a topic like ‘sports’.
So you can use simple vocabulary, but use several different tenses.
Using a wide range of tenses will help improve your score for grammar
in the IELTS Speaking test
Listen to this simple answer
https://keithspeakingacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Do-you-play-any-sp
orts_.mp3
5 different tenses
I play tennis, (present simple)
I’ve been playing since I was a kid
(present perfect continuous)
I remember I took it up when I was 9
(simple past)
because I had seen my friends play it
(past perfect)
And I wanted to try it too, I thought
when I am older, I will be the best player in the world
(1st conditional)
There is not much difficult vocabulary with a topic like ‘sports’.
So you can use simple vocabulary, but use several different tenses.
Using a wide range of tenses will help improve your score for grammar
in the IELTS Speaking test
Listen to this simple answer
https://keithspeakingacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Do-you-play-any-sp
orts_.mp3
5 different tenses
I play tennis, (present simple)
I’ve been playing since I was a kid (present perfect continuous)
I remember I took it up when I was 9 (simple past)
because I had seen my friends play it (past perfect)
And I wanted to try it too, I thought when I am older, I will be the best player in the world
(1st conditional)
Collocations with ‘sport’
As you learn new vocabulary, it is a good idea to learn the common
collocations for new words you are learning.
Here are some common ones, for the word ‘sport’.
* It’s a mainstream sport (popular with everyone)
* It’s a competitive sport
* It’s a spectator sport (=a sport many people watch)
Find out more collocations with OZDIC
http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/sport
IELTS Speaking tip: What if I hate sports?
Don’t worry, if you have no interest in an IELTS speaking topic, like
‘sports’.
The important thing is that you say something.
Try following this simple formula
- Say why you hate it
- Talk about past experiences of sport
- What you prefer instead
For example,
I’m not really into sports, to be honest.
I’ve never been really sporty.
I hated sports at school, it was so competitive, and I used to get tired so easily.
On top of that, I’m not very strong physically, so I always struggled.
I’d much rather stay at home and watch TV.
