1. SPORTS AND HOBBIES
Manuel Blanco Encalada
Highschool
English Department
Caldera
Miss Karen
Salinas

2. SPORTS
• an activity involving
physical exertion and
skill in which an
individual or team
competes against
another or others for
entertainment
• SPORTS help us to
keep fit and healthy.

3. • skating

4. • skiing

5. • riding

6. • rollerskating

7. • cycling

8. • playing
badminton

9. • playing football

10. • fishing

12. HOBBIES
A hobby is an activity done regularly
for pleasure. It is something you like
to do when you are free.

13. Music
• Some people like to
listen to music or play
music themselves.

14. • playing the
guitar

15. • playing the
piano

16. • playing the
violin

17. • listening to the
radio

18. • drawing and
painting

19. • playing
computer
games

20. • watching
television

21. • doing
crosswords

22. • reading

23. • gardening

24. Playing board games
• snakes and
ladders
• chess

25. Collecting things
• People collect lots of
different things. Some
people collect strange
things, like bones of
dead animals. The
common things for
collecting are stamps,
coins stickers and
postcards.

26. VERBS GO, PLAY AND DO
• TEAM SPORTS:
• I play basketball
• I play football
• I play baseball
• I play voleyball
• I play tennis
• We use PLAY with
team sports

27. • INDIVIDUAL SPORTS:
• GO+ING
• I go swimming
• I go skating
• I go jogging
• I go fishing
• I go surfing
VERBS GO, PLAY AND DO
• We use GO with
verbs ending in ING

28. • INDIVIDUAL SPORTS:
Not ending in ING,
we use PRACTICE or
DO
• I practice judo
• I practice karate
• I practice athletics
• I practice
gymnastics
VERBS GO, PLAY AND DO
• When we talk about
exercising we use
do
• I do exercise.
• I do aerobics.
• I do push ups
• I do sit ups

29. The Olympic Games
• The Olympic Games started in
Greece (place) in about 776
BC (year).
• They were in honor of ZEUS. At
the beginning, there was only
short sprint. The competitors
were young men and they
won olive crowns . The
spectators were men and
unmarried girls that came
from all over Greece.

30. The Olympic Flag
• The Olympic rings, consists of
five intertwined rings and
represents the unity of the five
inhabited continents (America,
Africa, Asia, Australasia,
Europe). These colors were
chosen because every nation
had at least one of them on its
national flag. The flag was
adopted in 1914 but flown for the
first time only at the 1920
Summer Olympics in Antwerp,
Belgium.

31. The Paralympic Games
• Paralympic: an international athletic
competition for disabled athletes.

32. The tremendous efforts a disabled person had to make in his life to
rehabilitate and became an unstoppable sportsperson.

33. The Paralympic Games
A: Do you know any famous paralympic athlete?
B: Sure. Robinson Mendez, for example.
A: What kind of disability does he have?
B: He can’t walk. He uses a wheelchair.
A: What nationality is he?
B: He is Chilean.
A: In what discipline does he stand out?
B: He plays tennis, and he is the best paralympic tennis player in
Latin America.

34. The Paralympic Games
• What are the Paralympic games?
• The Paralympic Games are an international multi-
sport event where athletes with a physical
disability compete; this includes athletes
with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness,
and cerebral palsy.
• The Paralympic Games take place once every four
years, and are held immediately after the Olympic
Games.