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Unit: Sports Day & Prizes

Sports Day Writing 🏆🏃‍♂️

Learn sports words and write where people and things are!

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📌 How to use this lesson

🍎 For teachers:

Use this 20-minute lesson to practice sports vocabulary and prepositions of place. Check student answers together or use the AI scoring for Module 2.

🎒 For learners:

First, complete the fun word games in Module 1. Next, write your 5 sentences about sports day using the starters and checklist.

💡 Example sentence pattern:

"The runners are on the track at the stadium."

Module 1

Let's practice sports words and places!

Short practice with Unit words before you write.

📦 Word Bank

race track sack line gold silver bronze point hop skip

a Put the words in the right order

1. prizes / in / box / The / are / the .

____ (Type your sentence here...)

2. team / at / waits / My / line / the .

____ (Type your sentence here...)

3. sports day / at / is / The / school .

____ (Type your sentence here...)

4. gets / medal / She / gold / a .

____ (Type your sentence here...)

b Fill in the blanks with the word bank

Words to use: line, gold, sack, track, points

1. The runners stand on the starting ____ .

2. She wins first place and gets a ____ medal.

3. The children jump fast in the ____ race.

4. They run around the sports ____ .

5. Our team gets ten ____ in the game.

c Choose the correct word

1. The medals are _______ the table.

____ a. in ____ b. on ____ c. at

2. My friends hop and _______ in the park.

____ a. skip ____ b. track ____ c. line

3. The winner gets a _______ cup.

____ a. silver ____ b. line ____ c. sack

4. We are _______ home today.

____ a. on ____ b. at ____ c. in

d Match a question to its answer

1. Where are the prizes?

____ a. They are playing on the grass. ____ b. They are in the red bag. ____ c. We are at the finish line.

2. Where are you and your team?

____ a. They are in the red bag. ____ b. They are playing on the grass. ____ c. We are at the finish line.

3. Where are the children?

____ a. They are playing on the grass. ____ b. They are in the red bag. ____ c. We are at the finish line.

Module 2

Now it is your turn to write!

Use your new words and prepositions to write 5 sentences.

Your Writing Task

"Write 5 sentences about a sports day (real or imagined): where people and things are."

Target length: Write 30–50 words.

✍️ Sentence Starters Frame (use these to start):

• The sports day is at ...
• The runners are on ...
• The prizes are in ...
• My team waits at ...
• My family is at ...

✅ Checklist (Make sure to include all 5):

✓ 1 place with at

✓ 1 place with in

✓ 1 place with on

✓ 1 sentence with at home or at school (no 'the')

✓ 1 sentence about where a person is

Type your 5 sentences below: AI Graded

____ (The sports day is at...)

🎯 Task Achievement 🔗 Coherence & Cohesion 📚 Lexical Resource ✍️ Grammatical Accuracy

Module 3

Read this great example!

Check how this model answer uses the starters and prepositions.

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Model Answer

31 words

"The sports day is at school. The runners are on the track. The prizes are in a big box. My team waits at the line. My family is at home today."

🔎 Why this works:

at school

We say "at school" without "the".

on the track

We use "on" for a line or track.

in a big box

We use "in" for inside a container.

at the line

We use "at" for a specific spot.

at home

We say "at home" without "the".

Writing: Sports Day and Prizes

Sports Day Writing 🏆🏃‍♂️

📌 How to use this lesson

Let's practice sports words and places!

a Put the words in the right order

b Fill in the blanks with the word bank

c Choose the correct word

d Match a question to its answer

Now it is your turn to write!

"Write 5 sentences about a sports day (real or imagined): where people and things are."

Read this great example!

Model Answer

🔎 Why this works:

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