Sports Action Verbs is a fun lesson for ESL students to learn verbs, past simple, past progressive, vocabulary, and phrases for talking about sports.

Watch the ESL video English conversation about Sport and use the ESL Printable and Digital storytelling flashcards to practice using new vocabulary and expressions and speaking in the past simple and past continuous. Get the ESL printable worksheets about sports, ESL printable and digital flashcards, ESL listening and reading exercises, and gamify lessons with badges and stamps.

Warm Up Questions

1. Do you like sports? Which ones?
2. Do you like to play sports?
3. What sports clubs/activities do you like?

ESL Video on Sports Action Verbs in the Past Simple

Watch the following YouTube video:

ESL Listening Questions on Sports Action Verbs

1. Has Tony seen the score of the Lions game?
2. What was the result of the game?
3. Did they win in regulation?
4. Who scored the overtime goal?
5. How do they describe Billy Nicholson?
6. Who scored in regulation?
7. How did Vince Brown score his goal?
8. According to Samantha, was it a good game?
9. Does Samantha think that they will make the playoffs?
10. When was the last time that they won a championship?

Vocabulary to Talk about Sports

Choose the word from the Word Bank that matches the description below.

1. after regulation comes
2. a player kicks the ball into the net it’s a
3. when a TV station shows the best parts of the game they are the
4. player is awarded a chance to score it’s a
5. the team with the least goals
6. the team with the most goals
7. someone who plays professional sports is an
8. the final game of the year

Fill-in-the-blanks

Complete the following sentences with words from the Word Bank.

1. Did they ______________________________ or lose the game?
2. We lost in ______________________________ . The game lasted extra periods.
3. Did you see the ______________________________ of last night’s game? There was a big fight.
4. He’s a good ______________________________ . He trains hard and is very skilled.
5. I’m happy that the regular season is finished. Now we can
6. enjoy the ______________________________ .
7. They were a great team ______________________________ . Recently they have been terrible.
8. He’s very ______________________________ on the field. Nobody can catch him.
9. They are a very ______________________________ team. They have many players who can score goals.

Grammar Past Simple Practice

Put the following in the last tense.

Last night’s game _____________________ ¹ (be) a wild one. Each team ________________ ² (score) three times in regulation. The game ____________ ³ (end) in a tie. It was __________________⁴ (decide) in overtime. Ronaldo ________________ 5(score) the overtime goals. The crowd ____________________⁶ (go) crazy and everyone ____________________⁷ (be) really happy with the final result. Renaldo _________________ ⁸ (receive) the player of the game.

ESL Printable and Digital Flashcards to Talk about Sports

Use the flashcards to ask questions about sports.

A Conversation about Sports

Samantha: Have you seen the score of the Lions game?

Tony: No, I haven’t.

Samantha: The lions won 3-2 in overtime.

Tony: They did? That’s great. Who scored?

Samantha: Billy Nicholson scored the overtime goal.

Tony: He did? Wow! That’s fantastic. He’s such a great athlete.

Samantha: He sure is. He’s very fast and powerful.

Tony: Who scored in regulation?

Samantha: Vince Brown and Peter Thornton scored the goals. Vince Brown scored on a penalty kick.

Tony: Sounds like it was an exciting game.

Samantha: Yes, the highlights look amazing.

Tony: Do you think they will make the playoffs?

Samantha: I think they have a really good chance. Their schedule is really easy for the rest of the season.

Tony: I hope so. We haven’t won the championship in a long time.

Samantha: Actually, we haven’t won since 1997.

Tony: Wow, that really is a long time ago.

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