Sports and Hobbies Dominoes Craft
Perfect for speaking, listening and learning to talk about free time hobbies and sports in an engaging and effective way.
♦ Engaging games and craft activities that really get your ESL young learners learning sports and hobbies language.
♦ Several options that make it super easy for you to choose the level of difficulty appropriate for your particular students.
♦ Super easy to target specific skills with a choice of templates - literacy, listening, speaking, pattern recognition and more!
♦ Print and play OR use the included Activity Procedures to include even more practice while they make their very own copies of the game.
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What will my ESL young learners learn?
There are several variations so you can easily differentiate the skills practice. Choose the text to text or text to picture options if you want to practise literacy skills, or choose the picture to picture options for children who aren’t reading yet.
The ‘make your own’ dominoes sets allow you to provide even more practice as they make their own copies of the dominoes to take home and play.
Depending on how you conduct the activity, your students also get plenty of practice of their listening and speaking skills.
Don’t forget the valuable classroom language you’ll be helping them learn. See a summary below:
Sports vocabulary
baseball, basketball, cycling, football, golf, hockey, table tennis, tennis, rollerskating, running, volleyball, karate, swimming, yoga
Hobbies vocabulary
painting, drawing, singing, listening to music, playing the piano, playing the guitar, playing chess, dancing, playing card games, collecting cards, playing board games, playing video games, playing with blocks, reading
Additional phrases and structures
While not essential to play the game, you may want to help your learners acquire and/or use the following structures:
- ‘can’ for ability
e.g. I can paint. Can you do it? I can do it.
- 3rd person personal pronouns
e.g. He, She, They
- present simple with verb collocations
e.g. She paints. They play video games. He plays the piano.
- present continuous
e.g. She is drawing. They are playing a board game.
- like + -ing
e.g. I like collecting cards… / I like/don’t like/don’t mind/hate…
What do teachers say about the resources?
Frequently asked questions
Yes, of course! Maybe you have the time and enjoy creating things, but it has to be said that being a young learner teacher can involve a HUGE amount of extra work making materials. Give yourself a break!
All my materials have been tried and tested in the classroom. As well as having over 20 years of teaching experience, I am also a qualified trainer for the Trinity TYLEC (Teaching Young Learners Extension Certificate), so you can rely on the quality.
Yes! They work great for mixed aged groups and different abilities because they come with different templates AND different suggestions with how to use the resource. No time wasted on adapting different worksheets!
The provided activity suggestions give you lots of ideas for making the game and the main part of a fun and engaging lesson for your young learners. I’d suggest adding in a sports or hobbies song, and a game or two and you’re all set. You can find song playlists on the Sports and Leisure Topic page.
You can certainly find some free worksheets out there, but I can guarantee your young learners will be much more excited to create this. Engaged and motivated children make for a happy lesson (and teacher!)
Once you’ve had a chance to use your materials, don’t forget to come back to leave a review. As a thank you, you’ll receive a 20% discount on any other resource : )
