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AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES SPORTS

Worksheet: Students Aged 7–10

SPORTS PACK

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SportsAbout the GamesThe Commonwealth Games is a sports competition where athletes from the Commonwealth countries compete in different sports.

There are different categories of sports in the Games. Some are indoor – Boxing, Table Tennis and Weightlifting – and some are outdoor – Athletics, Hockey and the Cycling Road Race.

You can also see Water Sports or Aquatics in the swimming pool. Athletes dive into the pool to see who is the best diver. Other athletes swim as fast as they can to win the race.

Would you like to be an athlete in the Games?Which sport would you like to do?Do you like indoor or outdoor sports?

Athletics

Swimming

HockeyDiving

Boxing

Weightlifting

Table Tennis

at the Commonwealth Games

Outdoor Indoor

Triathlon

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1. Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary

Exercise A

Exercise B

Do the anagrams of the sports in the pictures.

Circle the correct word.

When you play badminton you do this on a pitch/court. You have to hit the shuttle over a net/table; to do this you need a racket/bat. You play badminton with a ball/shuttle.

Boxers do their sport inside a pool/ring. They have to wear boxing hat/gloves so they don’t hurt their hands.

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1. (ckeyho) h __________

2. (admintobn) b___________

3. (swimingm) s _________

4. (oxingb) b __________

5. (cngycli) c __________

6. (ntbaell) n _________

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2. ReadingRead the description. Decide if the sentences are true or false.

The stadium is fantastic! There are thousands of people watching the Games! There are five athletes on the track and they are waiting to start the race. I can see a man with a camera standing near the long jump. There is an athlete running up to jump in the high jump. There are three or four people giving their tickets to a steward – that’s a person who helps people at the Games. There are some athletes in front of me. They are watching an athlete throw the javelin.

I have to go now. I want to see how far he throws the javelin!

True or False?

1. There are a lot of people in the stadium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2. There aren’t any athletes on the track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3. The man with a camera is sitting near the long jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. Some people have tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. An athlete is throwing the javelin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

True False

The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. Eleven countries sent 400 athletes to take part in six sports and 59 events. The last Games took place in Delhi, India in 2010. Seventy-one countries sent 4,352 athletes to compete in 17 sports and 272 events!

DID YOU KNOW?

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3. Wordsearch

a. Find the Commonwealth sports.

b. Can you name the sport from the wordsearch?

Badminton

Cycling

Judo

Diving

Netball

Pole Vault

Triple Jump

1. You do this sport in a swimming pool. _______________________

2. You have to jump three times to do this sport. ____________________

3. You have to jump really high in the air to do this sport. _______________________

4. You need a team to do this sport, a ball and two nets. __________________

5. You need a bicycle and lots of energy to do this sport. __________________

6. You need a net, a shuttle and another player to do this sport. _________

7. You wear a white uniform to do this sport. ______________________