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 Germany 4 England 1 http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/world_cup_news_2010/germany_england.html 27th June, 2010
THE ARTICLE The head of FIFA Sepp Blatter played his part in Germany s 4-1 demolition of England. With the score at 2-1 to Germany, England s Frank Lampard fired a shot a metre over the line. It was not given by the referee. Blatter s refusal to allow video technology in football cost England dearly. Blatter s 19th-century thinking aside, Germany clearly deserved to win this game. The English defense failed four times. German attackers showed four times how brilliantly they can finish. Miroslav Klose powered in front of England s Matthew Upson to slide the ball past goalkeeper David James for the first. Lukas Podolski beat the 'keeper from a tight angle for Germany s second. Matthew Upson got one back for England before Lampard scored to equalize, but didn t. England came out the stronger after the break but two goals from Thomas Mueller put the game to bed. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 2
LISTENING GAP FILL The head of FIFA Sepp Blatter played his part in Germany s 4-1. With the score at 2-1 to Germany, England s Frank Lampard fired a shot a. It was not given by the referee. Blatter s refusal to allow video technology in football cost England dearly. Blatter s 19th-century thinking aside, Germany clearly this game. The English defense. German attackers showed four times how brilliantly they can finish. Miroslav Klose of England s Matthew Upson past goalkeeper David James for the first. Lukas Podolski beat the 'keeper for Germany s second. Matthew Upson England before Lampard scored to equalize, but didn t. England came out the break but two goals from Thomas Mueller put. More free lessons at www.breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2010 3
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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS The head of FIFA Sepp Blatter played his part in England 4 1 of Germany s - demolition. With the score at 2-1 to Germany, England s Frank Lampard fired a shot a metre over the line. not by referee was given the It. Blatter s football to video in refusal allow technology cost England dearly. Blatter s 19th-century thinking aside, game clearly to this Germany deserved win. The English defense failed four times. German attackers showed four they brilliantly how times finish can. Miroslav Klose powered in front of England s Matthew Upson to slide the ball past goalkeeper David James for the first. Lukas Podolski a angle the from tight beat 'keeper for Germany s second. Matthew Upson got one back for England before Lampard equalize to scored didn t but,. England stronger the came the after break out but two goals from Thomas Mueller put the game to bed. 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