How active are you?

Ewa | Oct 05, 2025Oct 03, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• engage in talking about physical activities;
• practise collocations for activities;
• read the comments and do a comprehension activity.

With this lesson, students talk about the importance of various activities and read people’s comments about how active they are. They explore collocations for physical activities (e.g. play tennis, climb the stairs, run a marathon), discuss past experiences with them and write short texts about people who have different practices. Students also work in pairs, asking and answering questions.

WARM-UP AND COLLOCATIONS

This lesson focuses on talking about physical activities and starts with a warm-up. Students look at the lesson title and say words that are important for the topic. Afterwards, they read comments in which people say how active they are. Students then answer questions about what they do. Moving on, they read the comments from the previous task again and find collocations with different verbs (e.g. do sports, go to the gym, go surfing). Following that, students use some of the collocations to label pictures of activities. Next, they complete statements about past activities with the verbs (e.g. I walked 5,000 steps yesterday). Then, students find sentences in the previous exercise that are true or almost true for them. They add details. 

DISCUSSION

In this part of the lesson, students engage in talking about physical activities. They look at images of items (e.g. sneakers, a medal and a tennis racket) attributed to different people. Students then choose an image and write a short text about the person without using their name. Next, they read the text to their partner for them to guess who it is about. Finally, students get a card with a list of activities. They ask their partner if they sometimes do those activities. Their partner answers using a sentence beginning (e.g. I do, because… I do, but…). Then, they swap roles.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students choose the correct words to complete sentence beginnings. They then match them with their endings. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.

WORKSHEETS

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