| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson about sport, students compare different sports and learn and practise how to use the as… as grammar structure. They also watch a video and discuss statistics on male and female sport.
AS… AS GRAMMAR STRUCTURE
The lesson starts with a warm-up activity in which students discuss some questions about professional athletes. Then, they decide how important some things are if one wants to become a professional athlete (e.g. be talented, get up early, have parents who are athletes). After the discussion, students look at three statements with the as… as grammar structure and choose their correct meanings. They also do a task which helps them discover when the structure is used. Next, students do some controlled practice. They need to rewrite sentences about different sports using phrases in brackets. All the sentences use the as… as grammar structure. This part of the lesson about sport ends with an activity in which students need to decide whether they agree with the statements about sport. They use what they know about the sports from the statements to explain their choices.
VIDEO & DISCUSSION
This part of the lesson starts with the video. During the first viewing, students need to tick the things the video shows. During the second viewing, students complete some missing words. Then, they decide how the statements from the video ended. They also discuss some questions about the video. In the final part of this lesson about sport, students read some statistics about men and women in sport and need to decide if statements in the task are true or false. The statements contain the as… as grammar structure. Then, students look at the statistics again and discuss some questions. They also have to read some comments with possible reasons behind the statistics, and decide whether they think the comments are true.
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Greetings Ewa!
Great work, as usual.
In this lesson, on slide 8, it would be better to use “golfers” instead of “golf players.”
The term golfers is the standard here, e.g. Tiger Woods is a professional golfer.
Cheers!
Your kind words are much appreciated 🙂 And thanks for the suggestion but I think both are OK to use.
as a native English speaker, I would ever use the term golf player.
It’s very interesting to hear that comment from a few people. I wonder whether this is a regional thing or some preference. We see that both dictionaries and golf magazines use the term golf player interchangeably with golfer. See the following: [1], [2], [3], [4]. I do have to admit though that the word golfer seems to be used more frequently.
Thank you!!!!
Thank you Ewa! I would appreciate more lessons for Pre-intermediate students. Those are great!
Thanks, Alijah! You can find all the pre-intermediate lessons here. And more are coming!
These are wonderful lessons. Testing season has just ended, and the students are looking forward to the end of the school and they are harder to motivate. Your lessons strike such a positive chord, and spark meaningful discussion. Thank you!
It’s great to hear students enjoy our lessons 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
I find it very hard to find this lesson using the search system because it is not listed with the other comparative lessons.
Hi, Pete! The lesson is not in the comparatives set because it would make the set too long. We might create some kind of ‘comparatives and superlatives’ topic soon or a set with this lesson.
Pete, if you typed in ‘comparative’ in the search engine, this lesson is shown on the 5th position. I wonder how you were searching so that you didn’t get this lesson straight away. We’d appreciate if you contact us via email or chat, so that we can learn more and improve the search functionality.