Sport idioms and activities

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ALEXANDER DERBAREMDIKER, TOM'S HOUSE
WEBINAR 5: SPORT
IDIOMS AND
ACTIVITIES

2.

BRAINSTORM WORDS
CONNECTED WITH
SPORT
1) types of sport
2) sports kit

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EXPLAIN THESE IDIOMS:
1. to get the ball rolling
2. to throw in the towel
3. sink or swim
4. to swim against the tide
5. the ball's in your court
6. on the ropes
7. a one-horse race

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IDIOMS WITH SPORT
Complete the idioms below with the words in the box:
player, ropes, game, field, ball, seat, horse, goalposts, race, neck
1) a level playing __field______
6) move the ________
2) in the driving ________
______
7) keep your eye on the
3) to be neck and _______
8) ahead of the _______
4) flogging a dead _______
9) a one-horse _______
5) a major _________
Say which sports you think these idioms come from.
10) on the __________

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MATCH THE IDIOMS AND THEIR
EXPLANATIONS:
1. a level playing field
A) staying focused on sth
2. in the driving seat
B) being in control
3. to be neck and neck
C) a situation of fair competition
4. flogging a dead horse
5. a major player
D) being in front of the
competition
6. move the goalposts
7. ahead of the game
E) an important company or
person
8. keep your eye on the ball
F) wasting your time on a
hopeless situation
G) being in the same level as the
competition

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GROUP DISCUSSION
1) Have you ever felt you were flogging a dead horse:
a) at school/work; b) in your private life?
2) Can you give an example of a situation when:
a) someone moved the goalposts unexpectedly; b) you were in
the driving seat?
How did you feel?
3) Who is a major player:
a) among your friends or relatives; b) in the car industry; c) in
the computer industry?
Why do you think so?

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CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER:
In which sport men wear trunks: a) tennis; b) volleyball; c) skiing; d)
water polo?
Which is not a winter sport: a) cycling; b) bobsledding; c)
tobogganing; d) ice-skating?
In this sport, men wear gloves: a) swimming; b) boxing; c) jogging; d)
diving
A sport where the referee calls 2:0 as "two-nil" is: a) tennis; b) boxing;
c) wrestling; d) football.
A sport where the referee calls 15:0 as "fifteen-love" is: a) tennis;
b) boxing; c) wrestling; d) football.
Wimbledon is associated with this sport: a) football; b) horse racing;

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GUESS WHICH SPORT IT IS:
A) badminton, b) cycling, c) chess, d) ice hockey; e) football; f)
swimming; g) table tennis; h) tennis
1) table, net, bat, backhand;
2) court, baseline, serve, volley;
3) pool; butterfly; turn, breakstroke;
4) corner, goalposts, goal-kick, goalkeeper;
5) track, pedals, handlebars, lap;
6) board, square, pawns, bishop;
7) rink, puck, stick, goal;
8) shuttlecock, smash, net, lob

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TIC-TAC-TOE GAME
Name the sport which begins with
the following letter of the alphabet
and one rule to play or do it:
C
I
V
F
R
T
S
B
H

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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!