Health and Fitness ESL Activities, Worksheets and Games

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 using the word 'blank' for the missing word. Their partner then has one chance to guess the missing word by choosing a health-related verb, adjective, or noun from the game board and saying it in its correct form. If the student guesses the correct health word in its correct form, they score one point and write it in the appropriate column on the game board. If the student guesses the wrong word or word form, no points are awarded. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less

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 shouldn't. First, in two groups, students complete health trivia questions with words from a box. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns reading the questions along with three possible multiple-choice answers to their partner, who tries to guess the correct one. If their partner guesses correctly, students put a tick. The student with the most correct guesses wins. After that, students match sentence halves to form health questions. Students then take turns asking and answering the questions with their partner. Finally, students give their partner health advice using 'should' and 'shouldn't' based on their answers. show less

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 vocabulary to complete health and fitness recommendations. Next, in pairs, students read each recommendation with their partner, talk about it and decide if it's true or false, writing their guess in the column beside it. Afterwards, elicit the correct answers from the class. Pairs score one point for each correct guess. For false recommendations, the first pair to guess the correct recommendation scores an extra point. The pair with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less

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 and fitness adjectives with their definitions. Students then categorise habits as healthy or unhealthy and add two more habits of their own to each category. Next, students choose one healthy and one unhealthy habit and write sentences explaining why the habits are healthy or unhealthy. After that, students complete a text with the health and fitness adjectives. Next, students put words in order to make health and fitness questions. Finally, students ask and answer the questions in pairs. show less

ESL Health Questionnaire - Speaking Activity: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Guided 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 from a box. Students then write their answers to the multiple-choice questions on the worksheet. Next, in groups, students interview each other using the questions and note down the answers. When the students have finished, they discuss the answers to the questions in their groups. Students also discuss and answer two questions at the bottom of the worksheet. Afterwards, students give feedback on their answers and tell the class how healthy they think their classmates are. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Activity - Speaking: Ranking, Guided 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, students then take it in turns to read their rankings to their partner, e.g. 'To keep fit and healthy, you should first exercise or play sport regularly'. Their partner notes down the order on the worksheet. Pairs then discuss their order and come up with a combined ranking. Finally, there is a class feedback session to discuss the most and least important ways to keep fit and healthy. show less

ESL COVID-19 Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Short Answer Questions, 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. Students start by matching vocabulary related to COVID-19 to definitions. Students then read the latest World Health Organization's information on COVID-19 and answer comprehension questions based on the text. Next, students do a gap-fill exercise where they complete the latest World Health Organization's preventative measures for COVID-19 with words from a box. Students then move on to match the preventative measures with the reasons you should follow the advice. In the last exercise, students answer COVID-19 discussion questions using their own ideas and then discuss their answers in pairs or small groups. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Activity - Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, 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 through the items on the worksheet and elicit the yes/no questions the students need to ask in order to do the activity, e.g., 'Do you take vitamins regularly?' Students then go around the class asking each other the questions. When a classmate answers 'yes' to a question, the student writes down their name and asks a follow up question to gain more information, noting down the answer in the last column. If a classmate replies 'no', the student repeats the question with another student or asks a different question. Afterwards, students give feedback to the class on what they found out. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, 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 to create health and fitness collocations. Students then read a text about staying healthy and give each paragraph one of the health and fitness collocations as a title. Next, students label statements about the text as either true or false. Students then go on to complete six more health tips with nouns. After that, students match the tips with the correct explanations. Next, students complete health conversation questions with words from a box. Lastly, students ask and answer the questions with a partner. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Worksheet - Reading and Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, True or False - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work Here is an informative health and fitness worksheet to help students practice vocabulary associated with mental wellness. First, students discuss questions about emotional well-being and everyday stress with a partner. Students then match mental health vocabulary with the correct definitions to build their understanding of key terms. Next, students underline the correct mental wellness words in a set of sentences to practice vocabulary in context. Students then go on to match sentence halves together to form complete sentences about mental health. After that, students complete conversation questions with mental health words from a box. Finally, students ask and answer the questions with a partner and write helpful tips to support their partner's emotional well-being. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Discussion - Speaking Activity: Sentence Completion, Guided 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 and fitness with their own ideas and information that is true for them. In groups of four, students then have a discussion about health and fitness using the sentences they wrote. One student begins the discussion by reading their first sentence to the group, e.g. 'The best way to get into shape is to exercise every day'. Group members respond using expressions on the worksheet and by asking follow-up questions. The group members also say what they wrote for their first sentence to help keep the conversation going. When the first item has been discussed, the next student reads out their second sentence and so on. Afterwards, students share their findings with the class. Finally, students come up with five things people should do to be fit and healthy. show less

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 exercise in a word search. Students then complete sentences with the names of the eight exercises. Next, students match sentence halves to form statements that use exercise-related phrasal verbs. After that, students use exercises and phrasal verbs from a box in their correct forms to complete multiple-choice quiz questions. Students then tick the correct answer for each question. Finally, students ask and answer exercise conversation questions with a partner. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Collocations Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences from Prompts - 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 to make a health or fitness collocation by placing a domino down either before or after the domino on the table. If the player successfully forms a health or fitness collocation, they score a point. For an extra point, the student then tries to make a meaningful sentence using the collocation. The other group members listen and judge the player's sentence. If the sentence demonstrates the meaning of the collocation, the player scores an extra point. The next player then tries to put down one of their dominoes at either end of the domino chain and so on. When a player has gotten rid of all their dominoes, the game ends. Students then tally up their scores to find the winner. show less

ESL Health and Fitness Phrasal Verbs Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, 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 the questions to a partner and discuss the answers. In two groups, students complete phrasal verbs in questions with verbs from a box in their correct form. Students then pair up with someone from the other group and take it in turns to ask their partner the health and fitness questions on the worksheet and discuss the answers. Afterwards, there is a class feedback session where students share what they found out about their partner. show less

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 and workout routines. Next, students match exercise and workout vocabulary with definitions. After that, students fill in gaps in exercise instructions with body parts vocabulary from a box. Students then match the name of the exercise to the correct picture. Finally, students write their own instructions for doing sit-ups using the body parts and workout vocabulary and read out their instructions to the class for other students to follow. show less