Sporting success: speaking and listening activities
Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Written by the Teachit team
This set of three speaking and listening activities on a sporting theme is perfect for marking an important sporting event such as the World Cup or Olympic Games with KS3-4 students.
Students analyse a range of persuasive techniques in Queen Elizabeth II's 2022 opening ceremony speech for the Commonwealth Games, before choosing a speaking and listening task to complete.
The tasks include:
- writing a short opening or closing ceremony speech for a major sporting event
- writing a song, rap or poem for a major sporting event
- writing your interview comments after winning a major sporting event!
Example questions from the resource:
Persuasive language analysis
- How does the Queen include all of the Commonwealth countries in the first paragraph to connect to her audience?
- What triplet in the second paragraph shows the three most important aspects of the Games? Can you describe why they mean so much?
- Why is the noun ‘family’ emotive in this speech? What effect does it have for members of the Commonwealth?
- Identify three adjectives that are used to describe the city of Birmingham. How do they make the city sound in your view?
- Which words have the most impact on the listener in your opinion? Highlight them.
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