English Vocabulary in Use Elementary » Unit 23: Sports

Word List
  • American football
  • badminton
  • ball game
  • baseball
  • basketball
  • court
  • do
  • Do you do any...?
  • Do you play …?
  • favourite
  • football
  • go
  • horse racing
  • judo
  • karate
  • kayaking
  • like
  • motor racing
  • pitch
  • play
  • pool
  • rugby
  • running
  • sailing
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • sports
  • sports centre
  • swimming
  • swimming pool
  • table tennis
  • tennis
  • volleyball
  • watch
  • What’s your favourite …?
Exercises

23.1 ‣ Cover the opposite page. What are these sports?

  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. _____

23.2 ‣ Which sports use these things?

  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. _____
  6. _____
  7. _____
  8. _____

23.3 ‣ Ask questions for these answers.


  1. On a tennis court.

  2. Yes, but only American football.
  3. _____
    No, I don’t do any at all. I prefer watching TV.

  4. Yes, I go to the swimming pool every Friday.

  5. I like running best.

  6. On a rugby pitch.

23.4 ‣ Look at the different sports in this unit.

  1. Write the names of the sports you have done.
    _____
  2. Where did you do them?
    _____
  3. Which ones do you like?
    _____
  4. Which do you not like?
    _____
  5. Which ones would you like to do?
    _____

Over to you

Make a page in your vocabulary book for ‘sports’. Look at the sports pages of an English-language newspaper. Write down the names of sports you do not know. Look them up in a dictionary.
Answer Key
A ‣ Ball games

B ‣ Other popular sports

We can use go with all the sports listed in B, apart from judo and karate. I go running every day. I went skiing last year. We use do with judo and karate. She does judo.
(See Unit 39: Go / went / gone.)

C ‣ Where we do sports

We play tennis / badminton / volleyball / basketball on a tennis / badminton / volleyball / basketball court.

We play football / rugby on a football / rugby pitch.

We swim in a swimming pool.

Many towns have a sports centre – you can do lots of different sports there.

D ‣ Expressions

Do you do any sports?

Yes, I go swimming / running / sailing / kayaking.

Do you play football / tennis / badminton?

I play tennis. Which sports do you play?

What’s your favourite sport?

I like motor racing best.

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