Sports — English games for kids (online + printable)
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
The Sports topic gives you 16 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words — ideal game material for young learners. Below: the full word list, five ways to play it (each opens a game with this topic already loaded), and the printables for offline lessons.
A word becomes the child's own after roughly seven meetings. One topic, several different games — that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.
The words (16)
- ⚽ football — футбол
- 🏀 basketball — баскетбол
- 🎾 tennis — теннис
- 🏐 volleyball — волейбол
- ⚾ baseball — бейсбол
- 🏒 hockey — хоккей
- 🏊 swimming — плавание
- ⛷️ skiing — лыжи
- ⛸️ skating — катание на коньках
- 🚴 cycling — велоспорт
- 🤸 gymnastics — гимнастика
- 🥊 boxing — бокс
- 🏅 medal — медаль
- 🏆 trophy — кубок
- ⛳ golf — гольф
- 🏓 table tennis — настольный теннис
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match — picture↔word pairs from the Sports set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
- Bingo — you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
- Flip Cards — the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
- Word Scramble — the topic's shorter words, letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
- Balloon Words — save the word before the balloons fly away: the alphabet drill children ask to repeat.
Print & go
For offline lessons (or online students with a printer), the same Sports words come as A4 printables: cut-out flashcards with three label options, a one-page poster for the wall, unique bingo sheets with a caller's list, and a matching worksheet with an upside-down answer key.
Take this with you
One topic, 16 words, five games and four printables: enough material for two or three lessons plus the review that makes it stick. Pick six words to master per lesson — the rest will follow.
Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games — no prep, no accounts.
About the author
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game — cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.
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