1. TOPIC:
Sports
TALKING ABOUT SPORTS
General Objective:
To learn about sports
preferences
Specific Objective:
To talk about our
countries sports
preferences
To talk about our
personal sports
preferences

2. TALKING ABOUT SPORTS
DIRECT SPEECH
• Kike Wolf, the famous ESPN
commentator, said: “Messi
is the best soccer player
ever.”
INDIRECT SPEECH
• Kike Wolf, the famous ESPN
commentator said that Messi
is the best soccer player ever.
• Kike Wolf, the famous ESPN
commentator said that Messi
was the best soccer player
ever.
Be careful with punctuation:
Use colon (: ) and quotation marks (“ “) for
direct speech
Two possibilities:
-IS if the situation still is true in the present
-WAS if the situation was true at the moment of
speaking

3. DIRECT
SPEECH
• Simple Present
• Simple Past
• Present Perfect
INDIRECT
SPEECH
• Simple Present*/ Simple
Past
• Simple Past/Past Perfect
• Past Perfect
TALKING ABOUT SPORTS
VERB TENSE CHANGES
*Its use depends on the situation (please, see previous page)

4. PHRASES TO EXPRESS
PREFERENCES
• To be (really) interested in
doing sth
• To be keen on doing sth
• To be (so) really into sth
BE CAREFUL! “Really” and “so “ are words that
we use for emphasis and sometimes may be
omitted
EXAMPLES
• I am really interested in taking
up new sports every year.
• I am keen on playing soccer. I
really love it!
• I am so into tennis. I just can´t
stop playing since I watched
the last Grand Slam Final.
TALKING ABOUT SPORTS
EXPRESSING PREFERENCES