Proficiency Level: Intermediate Low/Mid

Time: 120 minutes (2x 60 minute lessons)

Objectives: Students can:

• ask and answer questions in a simple conversation about sports and games.
• explain the basic rules of a game or sport and answer questions about them.
• understand basic questions or statements during a short interview with a famous player.
• formulate questions based on responses in a video clip.

Performance Assessment:

• Students explain the rules of a game to another student or community member
• Students prepare questions to ask a famous sports person in an interview
• Students create a presentation based on a sport/game

Learning Scenarios:

1) 10 minutes – Teacher asks students how many Pakistani sports and games they can name, makes a list on the board and adds some more that students may not know.

2) 15 minutes – Teacher identifies two games that most of the students in the class do not know how to play. Students are split into two groups. Each group is given directions on how to play one of the games. Students from group A pair up with students from group B and give each other directions on how to play the game.

3) 15 minutes – Students listen to an interview of a sports person and fill out comprehension worksheet.

ek din Geo ke saath – Shahid Afridi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In021VVdHss

4) 15 minutes – Teacher reviews rules for recording and conducting a good interview. Teacher asks students to come up with some questions that might be asked in an interview of a sports person.

T and TA model an interview for the students reviewing vocabulary and introducing new vocab.

5) 10 minutes- Students watch the STARTALK video on night cricket which has responses from interviewees. Students have to come up with the appropriate questions to the responses.

6) 20 minutes – In pairs, one student will pretend to be a famous athlete/sports person and the other student will interview him/her for a local radio station. Then they switch roles.

7) 10 minutes – Students listen to commentaries from different sports and identify what game the commentary is for.

8) 25 minutes – In small groups, students create a sports commentary skit based on different scenarios (scored a goal, winning/losing, player foul, etc.) The students take on different group roles such as players, referee, and commentators. Students will be given time to create and practice their scenarios. Teacher will facilitate. Students will present their scenarios. The same categories can be awarded: most humorous, most creative, best use of Urdu vocabulary, best overall performance, best characters, most unique etc. (This activity is for heritage students who are exposed to various games/sports and the nuances that may be associated with them.