Canadians enjoy a variety of winter and summer sports due to the country's cold winters and hot summers. In the winter, Canadians love snow sports like skiing, snowboarding, and ice skating. Canada hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the summer, Canadians enjoy watersports like waterskiing as well as rugby and yoga outdoors, taking advantage of the many lakes and warmer weather. The document provides examples of famous Canadian athletes in different sports like pole vaulting and basketball.

1. Sports in Canada

2. Which of these
sports do you
think Canadians
like?

3. Canadians like all these sports...
• And many more!
• Because Canada has very cold winters and hot
summers, different sports are played in different
seasons.
• For example... if you want to go snowboarding
you should go to Canada in the...
summer?
or winter?

4. Winter!
• Canadians love winter sports. In
2010 they hosted the winter
Olympics, in Vancouver.
• Can you ski? Can you
snowboard?
• If you would like to learn, you
must practice a lot!

5. Summer Sports
• Some activities can only be done in
the summertime.
• Canada has a lot of lakes, which
means you can go waterskiing

6. In the summertime,
Canadians also like
to play rugby

7. It's nice to do yoga outside
in the summertime

8. Check out this video of some Canadian winter
sports!

9. Match the pictures with the sentences
1. For this sport, you must have really good balance
2. For this sport, you should wear warm clothes
3. The athletes who do this can skate the fastest

10. Alysha Newman
This is Alysha Newman, an Olympic
pole vaulter from London, Canada. Fill in
the blank in this sentence using can,
should, or must.
Alysha Newman holds the Canadian record for pole
vault. She ________ jump 4.75 metres high

11. Serge Ibaka
• Serge Ibaka is a Spanish-
Congolese basketball player for
the Toronto Raptors.
• Fill in the blanks in this
sentences using can, should, or
must.
If you want to play basketball professionally,
you _______ know the rules. I think Serge
Ibaka _______ play for the raptors forever,
because he is a great player!