This document provides an outline for a 45 minute lesson on extreme sports for 10th form pupils. It includes objectives to categorize vocabulary related to different extreme sports, answer listening comprehension questions, and express opinions on extreme or negative attitudes. Pre-viewing activities involve thinking about known extreme sports and identifying them in a word list. While-viewing activities have students watch a video scene about extreme sports and complete statements and tasks to test comprehension.

1. Topic: Into Sport. Extreme Sports.
Time required: 45 min. Participants: pupils (10th
form)
Materials needed:
• video (Episode 3)
• worksheets
• pictures (extreme sports)
• posters, markers
Objectives: PWBAT
• categorize the vocabulary according to different kinds of extreme sport
• answer the listening comprehension questions related to extreme sports
• express opinion about positive or negative attitude to extreme sports
Resources:
• Калініна Л.В. Навчальний посібник з англійської мови та культури Word on the
Street: у 2-х ч.
• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
5 min. Pre-viewing activities:
Before you watch
1. Think about the following questions:
What extreme sports do you know?
Have you or has anyone you know tried an extreme sport?
What are the most popular extreme sports in your country?
2. Read the list of words and find extreme sports among them.
1 White-water
rafting
2 Polo
3 Tennis
4 Car racing
5 Canoeing
6 Kayaking
7 Surfing
8 Skateboarding
9 Swimming
10 Mountain
climbing
11 Skiing
20 min. While-viewing activities:
Scene 4. Extreme sports.
Watch Scene 4 and choose the best option to complete the following statements.
1. People who enjoy dangerous sports are called……
2. People like to…..themselves.
3. Parkour, sometimes called ……is becoming popular in London.
4. Parkour isn’t difficult – it’s more about….
Task 1.Choose the right group for each of the words : parkour, white-water
rafting
Jumping, foaming, steps, rapids, drops, climbing.
Task 2. Choose the correct answer according to the video.
1. What can we call people who enjoy dangerous sports?
a) Fear seekers or adrenaline junkies
b) thrill junkies or adrenaline seekers
c) adrenalin junkies or thrill seekers
d) fear junkies or thrill seekers