Footballs

Learning objectives:

to improve reading skillsto practise large numbersto find out about fair trade footballs

Where do footballs come from

Challenge: in 2 minutes, guess the name of the country, where most

footballs are made

du Pakistan

Pakistan

Each year, we buy 40 million footballs all over the world. 75% of the balls are made in Pakistan. Many children have to work ?

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Pour chaque ballon on doit coudre 650 points.

Guess how many stitches there are in one football.

For each ball, 650 stitches have to be sewn.

Ethletic makes a range of 3 footballs, for training, matches and competitions. There are also rugby balls, volley balls, beach volley balls, handballs and basketballs

Fair Trade Footballs

There are Fair Trade footballs from different suppliers.

www.maketradefair.comwww.ethicalsuperstore.com

Fair Trade Footballs

Oxfam and Carrefour, the French hypermarket, have launched an initiative. ‘Score a goal for Solidarity’ during the World Cup. The action consists of promoting footballs made by Talon, a producer of footballs from Pakistan.

Children don’t work for Talon. More than 1500 men and women work for Talon They make 1.2 Million footballs each year.

Learning outcomesThese were the Learning Objectives:• to improve reading skills• to recap the large numbers • to find out about fair trade footballs Plenary Have you achieved these objectives? Fill in the grid on the next slide in your books very

carefully as you think about your learning.

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