Health & Fitness ESL Activities, Worksheets & Games
Health and Fitness Competition
ESL Health and Fitness Game - Vocabulary: Gap-fill, Guessing
In this creative health and fitness vocabulary game, students complete sentences with verbs, adjectives, and nouns related to health and fitness. In pairs, students take turns picking up a card and reading the gap-fill sentence to their partner...
Healthy Advice
ESL Health Quiz and Activity - Vocabulary and Grammar: Gap-fill, Matching - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Giving Advice, Freer Practice - Pair Work
Here is an entertaining health quiz and speaking activity to help students practice health and fitness vocabulary and giving advice with should and...
Healthy Living
ESL Health Recommendations Game - Vocabulary: Gap-fill, True or False, Guessing
In this enjoyable health and fitness vocabulary game, students use health-related vocabulary to complete recommendations about being fit and healthy and then guess if the recommendations are true or false. First, students use health...
Healthy Habits
ESL Healthy Habits Worksheet - Writing and Vocabulary Exercises: Categorising, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this detailed health and fitness worksheet, students learn and practice adjectives and other vocabulary related to health and fitness. First, students match health...
How healthy are you?
ESL Health Questionnaire - Speaking Activity: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Discussion - Group Work
In this free health questionnaire activity, students complete questions about health and then ask and answer the questions in groups. Students begin by completing questions about health with question words...
How to keep fit and healthy
ESL Health and Fitness Activity - Speaking: Ranking, Discussion - Pair Work
In this engaging health and fitness speaking activity, students discuss and rank ways to keep fit and healthy. First, students rank ten ways to keep fit and healthy in order of importance, one is the most important and ten is the least important. In pairs...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Facts and Advice
ESL COVID-19 Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work
In this informative COVID-19 worksheet, students learn vocabulary related to coronavirus as well as the latest facts and advice about the virus...
Find Someone Who...
ESL Health and Fitness Activity - Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group Work
In this insightful health and fitness speaking activity, students ask and answer questions about health, diet and exercise. First, students complete the gaps with the verbs in their correct forms. Next, go...
Health Tips
ESL Health and Fitness Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Gap-fill, True or False - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
Here is a useful health worksheet to help students practice vocabulary associated with health and fitness. First, students match verbs with the correct endings...
Mental Health Vocabulary
ESL Mental Health Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Writing Sentences - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
Here is an informative mental health worksheet to help students learn and practice mental health vocabulary and use it to talk about stress, emotions...
Thoughts on Fitness
ESL Health and Fitness Discussion - Speaking Activity: Sentence Completion, Discussion, Asking and Answering Questions - Group Work
In this free health discussion activity, students practice expressions related to health and fitness. Students begin by completing sentences about health...
Get Some Exercise
ESL Exercise Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Word Search, Gap-fill, Matching, Multiple-Choice Quiz - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this handy exercise vocabulary worksheet, students practice words and phrasal verbs related to exercise. First, students find the names of eight types of...
Health and Fitness Dominoes
ESL Health and Fitness Collocations Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences - Group Work
In this fun health collocations game, students play dominoes by matching words together to make health and fitness collocations and then using the collocations in sentences. In the game, the first player tries...
Health and Fitness Phrasal Verbs
ESL Health and Fitness Phrasal Verbs Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this productive health and fitness phrasal verbs speaking activity, students complete questions with phrasal verbs related to health and fitness and then ask...
Exercise and the Body
ESL Fitness Worksheet - Vocabulary, Reading and Writing Exercises: Labelling, Matching, Gap-fill, Writing a Paragraph
This comprehensive fitness worksheet helps students learn and practice vocabulary related to exercise and the body. First, students label human anatomy with body parts vocabulary commonly used in exercise...
Using Health and Fitness Vocabulary
Health and fitness vocabulary includes words and phrases for everyday habits, exercise, physical condition and emotional well-being. Learning combinations such as 'stay active' and 'feel stressed' helps students describe routines and experiences more precisely.
This page has 15 resources across A1-A2, A2, B1, B2 and C1, including games, worksheets and speaking activities, with two free downloads.
The table connects useful vocabulary with its grammatical form and a short example.
| Word or phrase | Meaning or use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| health | A noun referring to physical or mental condition | 'We discussed health in our English lesson.' |
| healthy | An adjective describing good health or something that supports it | 'The article describes healthy habits.' |
| stay active | Continue doing physical activities | 'She likes to stay active by dancing.' |
| work out | Exercise, often as part of a planned routine | 'He works out at the gym.' |
| feel stressed | Experience worry or pressure | 'I sometimes feel stressed before an exam.' |
| build stamina | Develop the ability to keep doing an activity for longer | 'She is training to build stamina for the race.' |
How to Use Health and Fitness Vocabulary
Describe routines precisely: Add frequency or context to an activity rather than giving a single word. 'I go swimming twice a week' tells a listener more than 'I exercise'.
Explain feelings and circumstances: Connect a feeling with a situation, as in 'I feel tired after a long shift'. In classroom discussions, let students use an imagined person if they prefer not to discuss personal experiences.
Compare preferences with reasons: Use the topic to practice explanations and responses. 'I prefer walking to running because I enjoy looking around' gives a partner something specific to respond to.
3-Step Framework for Teaching Health and Fitness Vocabulary
This sequence suits pre-intermediate classes, moving from vocabulary in context to questions and a shared discussion.
1. Establish Meanings and Word Forms: Students match health and fitness adjectives to definitions, categorise habits and use the adjectives to complete a text. This connects vocabulary with sentence context before students need it in conversation.
2. Prepare and Ask Questions: Students complete a questionnaire with question words, prepare their answers and interview group members, recording responses. The question structure provides support while students begin using the topic vocabulary to exchange information.
3. Discuss and Reach a Decision: Students rank ten suggestions individually, explain their order to a partner and agree on a combined ranking. This extends the interview stage by requiring them to respond to another viewpoint and explain their choices. Treat the ranking as language practice, not a personalised health assessment.
Common Mistakes with Health and Fitness Vocabulary
Using health instead of healthy: 'Health' is a noun; 'healthy' is the adjective used after verbs such as 'stay' or before a noun such as 'habits'. Incorrect: 'She wants to stay health.' Correct: 'She wants to stay healthy.'
Leaving out on after cut down: When naming what someone reduces, keep 'on' before the noun or activity. Incorrect: 'He wants to cut down sugary drinks.' Correct: 'He wants to cut down on sugary drinks.'
Common Questions About Teaching Health and Fitness Vocabulary
What game helps students practice health and fitness collocations?
The game Health and Fitness Dominoes gives students practice combining words and using the resulting phrases. Players match dominoes to form health and fitness collocations, earning a point for each match. They can earn another point by making a sentence that demonstrates the meaning, which the other players check.
What worksheet can I use for teaching health and fitness vocabulary?
The worksheet Health Tips connects health and fitness collocations with reading and conversation. Students match verbs with phrase endings, use the collocations as paragraph headings and check statements against a text. They then complete tips and conversation questions before discussing them, moving from understanding phrases to using them in speech.
How can students practice talking about health and fitness?
The free discussion activity Thoughts on Fitness starts with students completing sentences using their own ideas. In groups, they share their responses, use supplied expressions to react and ask follow-up questions. This gives students support for sustaining a conversation rather than simply taking turns to read out prepared answers.
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