Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to use descriptive vocabulary to describe different sports and games, a set of cards to select and match verbs that have similar meanings to other actions for different sports and games and a template to structure and write a poem about a sporting competition.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select vocabulary to describe different sports and games to use in a poem about a sporting competition.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose and present poems using special line structures and rhyming patterns to illustrate actions and themes connected to different sports. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.