This document discusses different types of sports and physical activities that people may enjoy, both participating in and watching. It provides examples of individual activities like running, swimming, and yoga, as well as team sports like soccer, basketball, baseball, and tennis. It also mentions enjoying spectating professional or college games. The document considers different ways people may describe their enjoyment or lack of enjoyment in various activities and sports.

1. Sporting!

2. Do you enjoy sporting?
• Some people enjoy exercise and sporting
because:
– It helps them get in shape
– It is an escape from their daily life
– It makes them feel good about themselves
– It is a great way to spend time with others and to
work up a sweat

3. Negative Ways to Describe Activities:
• Challenging
• Lonely
• Over-whelming

4. Some people enjoy swimming:
• Some people enjoy swimming laps across the
pool

5. Others enjoy:
• Leaving the house to go for a quick jog around
the park to get in shape
• Others prefer to attend a group exercise session
(spinning, running club, tennis)

6. Playing tennis:
• I think that tennis is far too difficult for me.
• I have a difficult time using the racket to hit
the ball over the net.

7. Yoga
• Some people enjoy taking a yoga class.
• Yoga is good for stretching and strengthening your muscles.
• It is important to stretch your muscles. It is far worse if you do not
stretch your muscles in the middle of exercise.

8. Soccer:
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To take a shot
To score a goal
To miss a shot
To foul someone
To get fouled

9. Basketball:
• To dribble the ball
• To pass the ball
• To shoot the ball

10. Baseball
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To pitch the ball
To swing the bat
To strike-out
To catch the ball

11. Those who prefer to watch sports
instead of participate in them enjoy:

12. Game Day or Sports Day

13. Going to a professional game or a
college game as a spectator to cheer
for your team on Game Day

14. During myfreetime, I enjoy to…

15. Go for a long run in the mountains
with or without friends.

16. • I also enjoy being a spectator at soccer games
or basketball games.
• I find ball sports to be very challenging for me.
• I don’t enjoy swimming because it is lonely.

17. Different Ways to Express Yourself:
• If you do not enjoy any sports, you would say
“I don’t enjoy any of them.” OR “None of
them are enjoyable for me.”
• To explain enjoying one more than another..
“I prefer to be a spectator much more than to
be a participant in the sport/show.”

18. How to explain how much I enjoy or
do not enjoy something:
• I don’t enjoy swimming or biking though if I
must choose, I would choose biking over
swimming.
• I find swimming to be far worse than biking.
• Neither of them make me happy, but I will do
them if I have to.

19. What do you enjoy doing with your
freetime?

20. In Pairs:
What type of activities do you prefer?
• Do you prefer group activities or sporting alone? Why?
• Do you prefer to be a spectator or a participant? Why?
• What is the most important spectator sport in your country?
• Do you practice good sportsmanship?
• If you mess around in sports, is it a joke or is it serious?
• Do you sport in a sports jacket or other sporting clothes?