My students enjoyed the lesson. Though it was nearly impossible to get more than a two word answer out of them.  ???

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This lesson plan is very simple. The objective is to encourage Ss to discuss a subject they are actually interested in, sports, in the hope it will build their confidence for discussing other topics too.

We start off by analyzing interesting sports as a class/groups for higher levels and eventually move onto to students analyzing their own sports and interviewing each other.

There are different hand-outs depending on the level of the class, with lower classes getting more support.

Here is the link for the prezi attachment with the videos on.
http://prezi.com/8dsxw-w8pxx2/sports/

As always I would love any feedback/suggestions/criticism.

Feel free to use my lesson, my only ask is that if you do please put a comment so I know.

I found this video and powerpoint from a previos waygook post but I put them together and changed a little bit of each.

Just did an extreme sports lesson this week with my 2nd graders in conjunction with a lesson in the book. It worked really well especially since I work at an all-boys school  :)

my boys love the xtremes, but the ladies think its stupid

I used this 10min video in my classes  this week with my extreme sports PPT and they loved it! Thanks  :)

Thanks for the great idea.  I teach at an all boys technical high school, and they loved this lesson!  I tweaked it a bit to adjust it to the needs of my students... The slide that says "What do I do for fun? I snowboard!" those pictures are of me, so you can obviously change that slide.  I just went through the different extreme sports with them, letting them guess the name of the sport based off the picture before I told them the name.  I also let them guess what equipment was needed before I showed them.  This allowed them to be creative... I got some funny responses, like one kid would say for every sport that you need a "body." lol
The activity is pretty sraight forward, as I have an example of what they are to do in the slideshow.  Of course, have a few kids present when they are done with the activity.  The game at the end worked pretty straight forward.  I split the class into 4 teams and showed a picture of a piece of equipment.  If the team got the sport right on the first guess they would get 3 points, if they got it right on their second guess they would only get 1 point.  I stayed strict with those rules (which I don't always do for games) but it worked well as they realised that if they wanted 3 points they could just shout out any sport.

There is also a snowboarding movie and a parkour movie embedded in the slideshow, which the students really enjoyed!

I haven't hit the 5 post mark for downloading material yet, but I created my own PPT based on this idea and my kids loved it. I have low-level high school students and they seem to enjoy any lesson based around things they have never seen before. I included parkour, base jumping, cliff diving, freestyle motorcross, freestyle snowmobiling, mountain boarding, barefoot water skiing, and whitewater kayaking just to name a few.