Adam Wyett PRO
I am an ESL teacher based in Saint Etienne, France. I use Slides to share and present my presentations live while teaching group-classes in lo-tech environments.
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Being a Good Sport
Warm-up | Battle of the Workouts
Tennis / Squash, Weights / Circuit training, Yoga / Pilates, Spinning / Step
- Do you know and have you tried any of these sports? Is / was your experience positive or negative?
- Which of the pairs do you think:
- will be the most enjoyable and keep you motivated?
- will burn the most calories?
- Will make the biggest difference to your health and fitness?
Reading | Battle of the Workouts
Which activity is it, according to the article?
Warm-up | The Truth about Exercise
Tennis / Squash, Weights / Circuit training, Yoga / Pilates, Spinning / Step
- Do you know and have you tried any of these sports? Is / was your experience positive or negative?
- Which are the biggest motivations for doing sport?
- Seeing physical changes in the mirror
- Maintaining an active social life
- Improve health conditions following a health scare
- Improving stamina, endurance, mobility and one's self-esteem
- Attracting the opposite (or same) sex
- Competition against others
- Setting personal challenges
- Fun and enjoyment
- Which kind of sports...?
a) are the most motivating, b) burn the most calories, c)
REVIEW
Vocabulary | Battle of the Workouts
REVIEW
How might these things prevent people from living healthy lives?
Everyday responsibilities
Lack of information
Childhood habits
Peer Pressure
Advertising
2 mins
C1 Checklist
How might these things prevent people from living healthy lives?
Mental Health challenges
Economic Constraints
Childhood habits
Lack of access to sport facilities
Advertising
2 mins
Which of these things affect the greatest number of people?
Mental Health challenges
Economic Constraints
Childhood habits
Lack of access to sport facilities
Advertising
1 min
How might these things keep people motivated to stay fit?
Looking good in photos
Having a "gym buddy"
Using wearables and fitness apps
Following influencers
competing and treating sport as a multiplayer game
2 mins
C1 Checklist
REVIEW
Which of these is the biggest motivator in getting people fit?
Looking good in photos
Having a "gym buddy"
Using wearables and fitness apps
Following influencers
competing and treating sport as a multiplayer game
2 mins
C1 Checklist
REVIEW
Grammar | Relative Clauses
Grammar | Relative Clauses I
- That's the thing that / _____ ....
- That's the person that / _____ ...
- That's the place _____ ...
- That's the thing [that] I did...
- Can leave out when the object ('I' is the subject)
- That's the thing [that] I did...
- That's the guy whose exam results are not good. (of whom)
- She's a person [who] I can talk to.
- => She's a person to whom I can talk. (formal)
- That's the room [which] I was born in.
- That's the room in which I was born.
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What I like best is... / She told me what she saw...
- What = the thing / things which
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Grammar | Relative Clauses I
- My brother, who doesn't like sport, was given a football.
- non-defining clause giving non-essential information separated by commas or a comma and full stop.
- Andriana hasn't come to class in ages, which is quite frustrating.
- Which refers to everything prior.
- They've got three children, all of whom (all their children) are good at sport.
- [expressions of quantity / superlatives] Some, any, none, all, both, either, neither, several, enough, many, few of which / of whom / of whose.
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Listening & Speaking | Agree, Partially Agree OR Disagree?
Listening & Speaking | His Arguments. Do you agree?
Advanced | Being a Good Sport
By Adam Wyett
