Olympic Games fever! Apps, games and ideas

With the London 2012 Olympic Games about to start, I could not escape Olympics fever. So I decided to collect some useful resources for the classroom.

Games

Word Hurdles is a simple sports vocabulary recognition game.

Ball or not? is a classification vocabulary game

Sports Mixer is a simple game in which you have to dress the character for a specific sport

Sports Maze is a simple listening game to recognize names of sports

Things for Sports is a game in which you have to identify sports equipment for different sports.

Quizzes

Olympic Sports quiz

English Club Olympics-related quizzes

Project ideas

AtoZ Teacher stuff ideas

An educator’s guide to the Olympics

Project Britain ideas

Teacher Planet ideas

Visuals

Olympic Sports Flashcards

Olympic Sports Bingo cards

Energy in sports

London 2012 Torch relay map

Videos and animations

London 2012 education programme has a collection of very interesting short videos 

How often do you play sports? is a video of kids talking about sports. There are related worksheets to download.

Athletics is an animated text and quiz about the sport

The First Marathon is an animated short story with an accompanying worksheet

Olympics people in numbers

Other resources

BBC Olympics coverage

Choosing the host city

London 2012 logo

I am sure you will find interesting ways to use these materials! Enjoy the Olympics!