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7 CLIL
PE Outdoor sports and activities

Objectives special clothes for water sports. For those students who want to
• read about outdoor sports and activities. go surfing or windsurfing, you must take a wetsuit. A wetsuit
• learn the words for some pieces of equipment needed to do is like a big swimming costume that covers your arms and legs
outdoor sports. and it keeps you warm in the cold water. Does anyone want to
• make a poster about an outdoor sport or activity. go canoeing? OK a few of you, well, you must take waterproof
clothes to keep the water out. When we go canoeing we also
Warm-up wear a life jacket to keep us safe if we fall in the water. But don’t
worry; you don’t need to take a life jacket. There are life jackets
• Books closed. Write the following sports and activities on the for all students at the activity centre. OK, that’s it. Any questions?
board: climbing, windsurfing, bungee jumping, horse riding,
paragliding, canoeing.
• Elicit information about each of the sports and activities and find Answers
out if anyone in the class does any of them. goggles and gloves: skiing, snowboarding
wetsuit: surfing, windsurfing
1 • Ask students to open their books at page 121. waterproof clothes: canoeing
• Put students into pairs to copy and complete the table. life jacket: canoeing
• If you have the Presentation Plus software, put the photos
on the interactive whiteboard and ask students to come to
the board in turn to do complete the table. Optional activity
2 2.42 Play the recording. Students listen to it, read the • Put students into pairs (A and B).
text and check their answers to Exercise 1. • Student A describes a word in the box in Exercise 3, e.g.
• Point out that gym is an abbreviation of gymnasium. we wear this on our head. Student B says the word, e.g.
helmet.
• Students then swap roles.
Answers
On land In the air In the water
horse riding bungee jumping windsurfing
Your turn
paragliding canoeing
5 • Put students into pairs and ask them to choose a sport and
then do some online research to find out the necessary
3 • Refer students to the words in the box. Explain that they are information about it. Make sure that each pair chooses a
examples of equipment, i.e. objects that we use when doing different sport.
a particular activity. • Weaker students could make a poster about a well-known
• Give students dictionaries and set a five-minute time limit sport such as cycling, whereas stronger students could
for this exercise. Pair stronger students with weaker focus on less well-known sports such as zorbing.
students to do this exercise. • Give students 10 minutes to do their research and a further
• Check answers. Write definitions of the words on the board. 15 minutes to make their poster.
• If you have a small class, ask pairs to present their poster to
4 2.43 Before you play the recording, put students into the class. In a large class, one pair could present its poster to
pairs and ask them to say which sports requires which pieces another pair.
of equipment seen in Exercise 1. • Display students’ posters on the walls of the classroom.
• Play the recording for students to write down the sports and • If you don’t have access to the Internet, set it for homework.
the equipment they use.
Audioscript
OK class, for the outdoor sports and activities school trip there
are some special clothes and equipment you need to take. Can 7.4 Extreme Fishing
you listen and make a list please? Outdoor sports and activities
can be dangerous so you must protect yourselves. You must have See page 138 for activities you can do with this video.
a helmet like this one. A helmet is a hard hat and it protects our
head in lots of different sports like mountain biking, canoeing and
climbing – so very important. Right, two more things you must Students can read this swimming pool poster and do
take are goggles, to protect your eyes, and gloves to protect your the accompanying exercises.
hands. You need goggles and gloves for snow sports like skiing http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/
and snowboarding, so don’t forget those. Next thing on the list is reading-skills-practice/swimming-pool
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