Sports vocab PDFs, lists and teaching ideas. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Useful sports vocabulary lists
British and American sports and games vocabulary list – the thirteenth list here
EFL glossary of football words and expressions
Teaching sports vocabulary articles
Olympics ideas one: English through and for sport
Olympics Ideas Two: Beyond sports
Teaching sports vocabulary lesson plans
Photocopiable sports vocabulary classroom activities
World cup modals practice – NEW
World Cup predictions speaking – NEW
Describing football World Cup teams and countries games – NEW
Sports and exercise random pelmanism comparing practice
Modals of deduction guess the sport
B2 First Speaking Part Four on sports and sports vocabulary
B2 First Speaking Part One on sports
Sports vocabulary list dictation
General meanings of sporting words
Explaining sports speaking game
Mini-presentations on the topic of sport
Olympics statistics pairwork guessing game
Complete IELTS Speaking tests on the topic of sports
Sports brainstorming and discussion (much more interesting than it sounds, good for opinions language)
Can/ Can’t match the person to the sport
Sports and hobbies collocations pelmanism game
101 IELTS Speaking Part Two tasks about sports and hobbies
Full IELTS Speaking about leisure, sports and health
IELTS Speaking parts one and two on sports (play, do and go)
Can/ Can’t sports mimes (miming not being able to serve a tennis ball etc is always amusing in a Mr Bean kind of way)
Business idioms (including sports idioms)
B2 First Writing Part Two job application letter on sport
Requests and enquiries with have games (with clothes vocabulary, furniture vocabulary, classroom vocabulary, food vocabulary, animal vocabulary, sports vocabulary and toy vocabulary)
Updated 29 June 2026
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