This class is another take of Virginia's Extreme Sports class but instead of Parkour I opted for Ultimate Frisbee.

Sports:

• Native Speaker brainstorms classroom about games, sports, and extreme sports. 10 minutes.
• Native Speaker divides the classroom into groups and groups perform Sports Activity Sheet.  20 minutes.
• The Class presents their Sports Activity to the rest of the class.  10 minutes.
• Native Speaker introduces a North American sport. 20 minutes.

Notes:

• Students have a tendency to choose the same sport (Skiing, Soccer, Volleyball, etc) so it’s important to avoid duplication; be sure to use the sports that were brainstormed on the board.
• Introduce the concept of Game, Sport and Extreme Sport at the same time during brainstorming.  Often the student will just shout out random activities and hope that they have the correct category.  Eg.  Chess is a game, not a sport.
• Introducing a colorful fighting sport (i.e. Mexican Wrestling) often works well and can be fairly easy with the numerous movie clips floating on the internet.

My PowerPoint has embedded videos that need to be in a sub directory '05 - Sports' but if that doesn't work they can be found online:

• Ultimate In Korea
• Ultimate Example
• Indoor Ultimate
• Ice Ultimate

For my curious co-teachers I also had links to a history of ultimate video: Part 1 and Part 2.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

FYI the luge video no longer works and the skijump and snowboard ones are the same.

Hey all,
I am doing a Winter Olympics themed lesson modified from bza's. I don't have it on this computer, but I did want to share links I found on Naver for olympic videos of all the sports that I came across. I couldn't find any Vancouver footage on youtube so was stoked when I came across these. Here's a list of some links if anyone is interested in doing a post-olympics lesson and wants some footage that works in Korea.
Figure skating:

     
http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=233

Ice-dance:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=333

Ice hockey:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=337

snowboarding:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=106

bobsleigh:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=317

curling:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=211

Luge:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/vancouver2010/vodPlayer.nhn?id=86


Cheers and thanks to bza for the original idea!

Hello!
I've been mulling over an outdoor lesson.  The weather is getting better and I'd like to just take everyone outside to enjoy it.

I saw alexinmokpo's (?) last lesson was frisbee.  I'd have to check if our school has them,  I don't think so.  I could do soccer I suppose but they play that fairly often and some kids don't like it.

I'm thinking dodgeball.  It would be pretty easy to setup with maybe 2 balls, but it wouldn't last 50 mins.  I'd have to have an extra activity.  There is also soccer baseball. 

Depending on the activity, it might be best to have a different activity for the girls school vs the boys school.

Any ideas for a 30+ class? (no badminton, tennis, hacky sack, jeokgu.)

I am going to try out Red Rover sometime for a little portion of a class for outdoor stuff. Best part is that there is a little English involved.  ^ ^

Kaymac,

I had my big, strapping boys carry out desks and chairs for over and under.   You can have a pair holding a rope. 

For the course, I just took a stick and drew one in the sand.  Only problem was, was that it would disappear after every few turns through, then my brilliant co-teacher went and got a bucket of water and a kettle and went over my lines...we were good for the day!

Good luck with it,

Sonya

This would be great fun to teach. If I did this, I'd take the last four World Cups. I'd talk about the host nations, winning teams, star players and controversy. For example, Maradona's failed drug test in 94, Zidane's headbutt in 2006. Then talk about this year's cup. Potential star players and winners.

I used the SA powerpoint from here.. But, edited it to suit. Added a few wWorld cup trivia questions and created a gap-fill worksheet.

I asked the students to name all 32 teams in the WC and after asked them all to give me a number from 1-32. ... On a seperate sheet I had written down the teams and numbered them at random. Then, I gave them homework tasks to find out info about their random team...

e.e.   If Min Su chose number 5 and number 5 was Brazil. Min Su's homework was to find out information about the Brazil team:


What colour is their kit?
Who is their coach?
Who will they play?
Who is their star player?
What is the countries history in the competition?

Who has scored the most goals in qualification etc etc



Every week selected students give a presentation update....... Unless their team is knocked out. Also, if their team wins and every week they do their homework, I will buy them something     Kids seem pretty excited about it, but no homework date has been reached yet.. Could be a total failure

I'm going to use the song also.  Play the song once with the gap sheet.  They play the video. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__lUfx7zdo

i beefed up a previous middle school jeopardy to use with high school boys. they managed to answer all the questions though one or two may have taken more than one team to get. a lot of the questions are gleaned from other powerpoints, i merely changed questions to sentences instead of pictures and the second countries category to the world cup trivia that i pulled off wikipedia and elsewhere. went really well and it is still mostly easy for them. for the last bonus question i asked: "the world cup was not held for twelve years because of this war." (i forgot to change the final jeopardy question in the ppt). most boys got world war II, the right answer, tho i did get a couple writing gurlf war and soccer wars...