This document discusses recreation activities that can be used with English learners to practice language skills. It includes ideas for nutrition activities, key terms activities, graphic organizers, sportsmanship activities, sports idioms, and stretching exercises. The objectives are to learn recreation activities to use English learners to practice English during recreation time and to stretch vocabulary by teaching muscle names and having students identify muscles being stretched.

1. Meeting the Needs of English
Learners in After School Programs
Part 3:
Recreation Time

2. Review
• On a post it, write down two ideas that you
remember from the previous training
(2 minutes)
• Each group will share one thing with the
whole group

3. Objectives
• Learn activities to use with English Leaners to
practice English during Recreation Time

4. Nutrition Activity

5. Key Terms Activity
Can be used with students or in
planning with a partner
•With an elbow partner discuss the rules of your
favorite sport
•As you are listening to your partner, write
down key terms of what is being explained

6. Graphic Organizers

7. Sportsmanship Activity
• Turn to an elbow partner (preferably someone
you know)
• Write down three compliments about that
person
• Share compliments with each other
• Practice with students complimentary phrases
that can be used during recreation time

8. Sports Idioms
Idiom - an expression that cannot be understood
from the meanings of its separate words but that has
a separate meaning of its own
Chick-isms:
Air-ball
Boo-birds
Bunny hop in the pea patch
Caught with his hand in the cookie jar
Charity stripe
Couldn’t throw a pea into the ocean
Count if it goes
Didn’t draw iron
Finger roll
Ice water in his veins
Give and go
The mustard’s off the hot dog
Slam dunk
This game is in the refrigerator…
With your Table:
•You will have two minutes
to write as many sports
idioms as you can think of

9. Stretch Your Vocabulary
• Front load students
with muscle vocabulary
(hamstring, quadriceps,
etc…)
• Use correct vocabulary
when conducting
stretching exercises
• Have students call out
the muscles being
stretched

10. Stretch Your Vocabulary
• Front load students
with muscle vocabulary
(hamstring, quadriceps,
etc…)
• Use correct vocabulary
when conducting
stretching exercises
• Have students call out
the muscles being
stretched