Beyond for Switzerland A2+ Unit 9: Communicative Activities

These communicative activities give students varied opportunities to use English in meaningful ways while engaging with the topic of sports and sporting events. They are self‑created activities intended to support and extend the work done in Beyond for Switzerland A2+ Unit 9. Through vocabulary work, reading, grammar practice, and speaking activities, learners build confidence using sports‑related vocabulary, participial adjectives, and relative clauses. Each task encourages interaction, supports skill development, and helps students apply the language from Beyond for Switzerland A2+ Unit 9 in realistic discussion and game‑based contexts.

• Vocabulary game where students name sports from A to Z, encouraging quick thinking and recall
• Reading a text about a baseball fan to practice participial adjectives in context
• Guessing game in which students identify sports or activities by asking yes-no questions
• Role‑play activities where students discuss different aspects of sports based on given situations, with opportunities to change partners and write one role play
• Grammar game using relative clauses to guess what or who is being described
• Extended speaking task in which students prepare and discuss whether their country should host the 2044 Olympic Games