Strange Sports

Unusual Sports

The weirder the better...

Open Ended

Are there any sports which you think are ridiculous or crazy?

Match

Match the following

• pointless

• eccentric

• an opponent

• steep

not having a purpose

strange or unusual

person or team someone competes against

rising at a sharp angle

• not having a purpose

• strange or unusual

• person or team someone competes against

• rising at a sharp angle

Match

Match the following

• alternate

• upside down

• barefoot

• a shin

happening one after another in a regular

top part where the bottom part should be

not wearing shoes or socks

front part of your leg below the knee

• happening one after another in a regular

• top part where the bottom part should be

• not wearing shoes or socks

• front part of your leg below the knee

Dropdown

​ This sport is a test of intelligence and physical strength.​ ​ ​

Select answer

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​ Soldiers play this sport as a training exercise. ​

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Dropdown

This sport began in Scandinavia and is also popular in the Baltic region.
​

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Dropdown

In the past, it’s likely competitors wore boots with steel on the toe to give them an advantage.

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Dropdown

People iron their clothes in very strange places, such as on top of a mountain.

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Dropdown

The game got its start in Harry Potter books before it became a game in real life.

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Multiple Choice

The cheese rolling competition isn’t risky.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A graphic novelist was the man who invented chess boxing.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Competitors in the wife carrying competition can carry someone else’s wife.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The people who first organized the toe wrestling competition wanted it to become an official Olympic sport.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Quidditch is only played by a few teams in the United States.

• True

• False

Hotspot

Find the word that means: got the idea to do something from (verb + preposition)

Hotspot

Find the word that means: tiring for the body (collocation)

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Find the word that means: people that watch a sport (noun - plural)

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Find the word that means: a series of objects you must climb over or under in a race or training exercise (noun)

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Find the word that means: hold (something) on the ground so that it can’t move (phrasal verb)

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Find the word that means: a strong feeling about something good happening (collocation)

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Find the word that means: a great ability to stand something unpleasant (collocation)

Hotspot

Find the word that means: the ability to move quickly and easily (noun)

Fill in the Blanks

Several cyclists

during the race last week.

Fill in the Blanks

The two nations have said they

as one country to compete at the next Winter Olympics.

Fill in the Blanks

They

that it would take two hours to drive to the coast.

Fill in the Blanks

The dish

in China but there are now many variations around the world.

Fill in the Blanks

The battery

by an Italian physicist.

Open Ended

Which of these sports would you like to try? Which wouldn’t you like to try? Why or why not?

Poll

Do you like this format of lesson?

• Yes!

• No! Worksheets are better

• IDC

• What?