8B Vocabulary

Sports and activities

A Work in pairs. Look at the pictures. Complete the table with the sports and activities.

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15

In/On the sea On land On snow/ice Usually indoors

surf running snowboarding squash
scuba diving golf ice hockey gymnastics
windsurf skating ice skating aerobics
jogging volleyball
mountain climbing

B Complete the sentences with words in A.

1 I often go to jogging in the streets near my house.

2 We play volleyball indoors in the winter, but sometimes on the beach in summer.
3 aerobics helps me to stay calm.
4 I tried to diving , but I didn’t like having my head under water.
5 squash is a fast game and the friend I play with is very fit, so I usually lose.
6 The instructor told me not to look down when I was climbing .
7 You start with a team of six for ice hockey .
8 skating first became a sport in the Winter Olympics in 1998. It was developed
from surfing on the sea and skating on land.
9 golf is such a slow game: it can take about four hours to complete 18 holes.
10 I love watching gymnastics . You need to be very strong, but it looks so beautiful.

C Work in pairs. Take turns to read your sentences in B. Are they the same?

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