www.breaking News English.com Ready-to-use ESL/EFL Lessons by Sean Banville 2010 FIFA World Cup 1,000 IDEAS & ACTIVITIES FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS The Breaking News English.com Resource Book http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/book.html Netherlands 2 Brazil 1 http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/netherlands_brazil.html 2nd July, 2010
THE ARTICLE This game had the potential to be highly entertaining and it didn t disappoint. The Netherlands booked their place in the last four with an exciting second-half comeback. Brazil took the lead in the tenth minute when a pass from Felipe Melo found Robinho on his own on the edge of the area. The striker turned and struck the ball past the Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. A second nearly came with a brilliant shot from Kaka that forced an outstanding save from Stekelenburg. The Netherlands came out fighting after the break. Wesley Sneijder floated in a cross from the right wing that Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar looked favourite to collect, until Felipe Melo got in his way and headed the ball into the back of the net for an own goal. Melo then got set off for stamping on Arjen Robben. Sneijder scored the winner in the 68 th minute to put his team into the semi-finals. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 2
LISTENING GAP FILL This game had the entertaining and it didn t disappoint. The Netherlands booked their place an exciting second-half comeback. Brazil took the lead in the tenth minute when a pass from Felipe Melo found Robinho on his own on the. The striker turned and struck the ball past the Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. A second nearly came from Kaka that forced an outstanding save from Stekelenburg. The Netherlands the break. Wesley Sneijder floated in a cross from the right wing that Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar looked, until Felipe Melo got in his way and headed the ball into the back of the. Melo then got sent off for stamping on Arjen Robben. Sneijder scored the winner in the 68th minute to semi-finals. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 3
CORRECT THE SPELLING This game had the potential to be hihylg entertaining and it didn t disappoint. The Netherlands booked their place in the last four with an egcxitni second-half comeback. Brazil took the lead in the tenth minute when a pass from Felipe Melo found Robinho on his own on the edge of the area. The striker dunetr and struck the ball past the Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. A second nearly came with a batlnilir shot from Kaka that forced an outstanding save from Stekelenburg. The Netherlands came out hfgntigi after the break. Wesley Sneijder faolted in a cross from the right wing that Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar looked favourite to collect, until Felipe Melo got in his way and eeaddh the ball into the back of the net for an own goal. Melo then got sent off for isnmgtap on Arjen Robben. Sneijder scored the nniwer in the 68th minute to put his team into the semi-nisalf. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 4
UNJUMBLE THE WORDS This game entertaining the to highly had potential be and it didn t disappoint. The Netherlands booked their place in the - second exciting an with four last half comeback. Brazil when in a the took tenth the minute lead pass from Felipe Melo found Robinho on his own on the edge of the area. The striker ball the and the past turned struck Netherlands goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. A second nearly with brilliant from came a shot Kaka that forced an outstanding save from Stekelenburg. The Netherlands came break the after fighting out. Wesley Sneijder floated in from right that cross the wing a Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar looked favourite to collect, until Felipe Melo way headed got his and the in ball into the the of back goal own an for net. Melo then got sent off for stamping on Arjen Robben. Sneijder scored the winner in the 68th to his into minute put team the semifinals. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 5
STUDENT WORLD CUP SURVEY Write five GOOD questions about the World Cup in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers. STUDENT 1 STUDENT 2 STUDENT 3 Q.1. Q.2. Q.3. Q.4. Q.5. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often. Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 6
WORLD CUP DISCUSSION STUDENT A s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORLD CUP DISCUSSION STUDENT B s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 7
WRITING Write about this game for 10 minutes. Correct your partner s paper. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 8
HOMEWORK 1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. MY REPORT: Write a newspaper report about yesterday s games. Read your report to your partner(s) in your next lesson. 3. WATCH TODAY S GAMES IN ENGLISH: Write down all the new words you hear below. Bring them to class tomorrow to share with your classmates. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 9