Sports Collocation Rules: walkthrough

Section role: supports the 'Decoding the Collocation Rules' section while the teacher formalizes student discoveries into grammatical rules and introduces key vocabulary. Slides: (1) Title — 'Decoding the Collocation Rules: Play, Go, Do'; (2) The 'Play' Rule — bullets: used for team sports, ball games, competitive games; examples: football, basketball, chess; (3) The 'Go' Rule — bullets: used for activities ending in -ing, often outdoor or involving travel; examples: swimming, cycling, hiking; (4) The 'Do' Rule — bullets: used for individual activities, martial arts, non-team exercises; examples: yoga, karate, gymnastics; (5) Key Vocabulary and Common Exceptions — bullets: defines 'martial arts,' 'suffix,' 'collocation'; provides one or two common exceptions to the rules; (6) Practice Examples — a short exercise to classify 3-4 new sports into Play, Go, or Do. Concrete examples, figures, or vocabulary: 'football', 'basketball', 'swimming', 'cycling', 'yoga', 'karate', 'martial arts', 'suffix', 'collocation'. Hooks back to the rest of the lesson: builds on the group categorization from Section 2 and prepares for the listening comprehension and personal application in Section 4. Closing slide: 'Which verb would you use for…?' followed by a final sport for the class to collectively categorize. This material is part of a English foreign-language class for students in Chile learning English. Regardless of the material's language, the key terms and examples being taught must be written in English, not in the students' native language.

Lara de Teachy