| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- engage in talking about extreme sports, risk-taking and motivation;
- watch a video about a Mount Everest climber;
- give opinions and analyse comments on extreme achievements.
In this lesson, students reflect on sports categories, share their viewpoints and evaluate various extreme activities. They share to what extent they agree with opinions, say how they would prepare for different challenges and watch a video about a person who climbed Mount Everest. Students explore comments, discuss the motivations and ethics of extreme achievements and read some facts about high-risk sports and athletes. They can also do an extra vocabulary exercise to explore useful phrases (e.g. addicted to, suffer injuries, adrenaline rush) and words for extreme sports (e.g. big-wave surfing, motocross, wingsuit flying).
B2 / Upper Intermediate45 min
60 minSpeaking ClassUnlimited Plan
This is a Speaking Class worksheet. It includes a variety of tasks that let your students practise their speaking skills. This lesson format does not focus on grammar or vocabulary. Learn more about it here.
WARM-UP AND DISCUSSION
Before this lesson starts, students can do an extra vocabulary activity to review vocabulary for talking about extreme sports. In the task, they match sentence halves featuring key phrases (e.g. overcome a fear, put someone in danger, in good shape). Then, students find the names of extreme sports (e.g. caving, free soloing, paragliding) in the sentences and match them with pictures. After that, they do a warm-up exercise. Students think of sports for different categories (extreme, endurance and adventure sports). Moving on, they choose opinions on extreme sports (e.g. … are good for teens), complete them with the sports categories from the previous exercise and give details. Afterwards, students evaluate and compare various high-risk activities, give their opinion and explain.
MORE DISCUSSION AND VIDEO
In this part of the lesson, students engage in talking about extreme sports and examine statements with various perspectives on high-risk and endurance activities. They state their level of agreement and support their views with arguments and examples. After that, students examine pairs of situations related to extreme sports (e.g. run a marathon OR cycle 200km). They say which option they’d rather choose and explain why. Then, students say how they would prepare for the challenge. Following that, they watch a video about a person who climbed Mount Everest. First, students read comments and guess what was special about his climb. They then watch the video, say which comment from the previous task they agree with the most, and explain why. Afterwards, students discuss questions about motivation, qualities and ethics behind extreme achievements. Finally, they read some facts about extreme sports and discuss questions about them.
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27.08 the slides of the e-lesson seem to be in the wrong order (‘Let’s get started’ is further down)
Hi! This is a speaking lesson, and in this format we usually include an optional vocabulary task at the beginning of the lesson. It’s presented in the “skipped in slideshow” mode, so teachers who don’t want to use it can simply start the slideshow from the title slide and skip the vocabulary task. You can read more about this format here.