Winter Olympics in Italy

From February 4 to 22, 2026, the XXV Olympic and Paralympic Games (March 6-15, 2026) will take place in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. 

With this material, your students will discover the 21 Olympic and Paralympic winter sports in which athletes from all over the world will compete. These are the sports:

• Biathlon                                                          - Ski mountaineering (new)
• Para biathlon                                                  - Ski freestyle
• Curling                                                            - Ski jumping
• Wheelchair Curling                                         - Para Snowboarding
• Ice Hockey                                                      - Snowboarding
• Para Ice Hockey                                              - Para Alpine Skiing
• Figure Skating                                                - Para Cross-Country Skiing
• Speed Skating                                                 - Short Track 
• Cross-Country Skiing                                      - Alpine Skiing
• Nordic Combined                                            - Skeleton
• Luge

The download includes a template for a memory game consisting of pictograms and sports, as well as three additional variants: picture-sport-movement, picture-sport-characteristic, and picture-sport-venue. The handout for teachers contains many different tips and suggestions on how to use the templates in a variety of ways to expand vocabulary such as For example, memory games, search three (memory with three cards), learning through movement, vocabulary training, bingo, question formation, pronunciation training, poster creation, forming simple sentences, practicing mini-dialogues, expressing opinions/opinion barometer, and word chains.

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