Vocabulary Worksheet: Sports.

Sports are often a good subject for break-the-ice conversations.

Even for people who aren’t great fans, being able to talk about sports can be an effective way of making friends in Spain and Latin America. In this free A4 worksheet we introduce students to 10 popular sports and look at ways of describing typical sporting actions.  This free resource is suitable for false beginner or intermediate-level students.

For more advanced students, check out our class (with free infographic) on Spanish phrases for football (soccer).

Scroll down for the red button to open and save the PDF.  You are free to print out the sheet, but please think of all those trees before you do!

Our series of free resources for teachers and students of Spanish features a range of Vocabulary Worksheets as well as some downloadable classroom posters.  The Spanish Vocabulary materials cover all aspects of everyday life from cooking and clothing, to the daily routine, the car,  adjectives and more. The series has been written and produced by Hablarama’s team of language teachers and graphic designers. 

In this worksheet we specifically look at:

1. Sports

The names of 11 major sports. Some of these should look familiar!:

fútbol, baloncesto, balonmano…

2. Verbs for actions 

Verbs for describing actions related to many sports (many are football related!):

jugar, marcar, fallar, ganar, perder…

3. Example phrases

Phrases which illustrate how to use the verbs to talk about sporting activities. 

Do you teach English?

If you teach English to Spanish-speaking students, then you might be interested in the English Vocabulary Materials from our sister site, Linguabanca.com