Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define verbs that can be used to describe different sports and differentiated sets of cards to identify, match and record how to add the suffix ing to word roots to build words that can be used to describe sports.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and match nouns and verbs that can be used to describe different sports that athletes can compete in during a sporting competition.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and combine descriptive vocabulary words to compose and perform poems describing actions and events connected to competing in different sports. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.