Olympic and Other Sports Trends

Sports trends

Choose a topic below. Describe (past, present and future) changes in that thing, like describing a line graph. Does your partner agree with your description?

• Aerobics
• American football
• Attendance at gyms
• Commercialism of sports
• Corporate sponsorship of sports
• Coverage of sports in the news/ in newspapers
• Domestic players going to foreign leagues
• Domination of leagues by the biggest teams
• Drug taking in sports
• Foreign players in domestic leagues
• (Local/ National) government spending on sports
• Gym fees/ Gym membership
• Gymnastics
• Interest in watching women’s teams who play traditionally male sports
• Interest in the private lives of sports people
• Internationally important sporting events in this city
• Martial arts
• Spectators in stadiums
• Obesity
• People competing for your country who don’t have a strong connection to your country
• Pressure on youth team players
• Public support for a country or city bidding for big sporting events (Olympics, etc)
• Salaries for sportsmen
• Sporting scandals
• Sports on (free/ paid) TV
• Sports participation
• Sports publications and their popularity
• Standard of public sporting facilities
• Success of national teams and sportsmen
• Success of teams based in this city
• The fame of sportsmen
• Ticket prices
• Traditional sports
• Transfer fees
• TV viewing figures for sports

Ask about anything above which you couldn’t understand or couldn’t explain, working together to describe the trends each time.

What forms did you use to talk about the future? What other future forms are there?

What future forms would you use to describe the next Olympics, the next time you play sports or do exercise, and the next time you watch sports?