Football & Languages

RSG – Devon North/South

eins

zwei

drei

vier

fünf

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Other ways to practise numbers:

• Keepie-uppie

• Headers in pairs

• Goals

• Report back on matches

• Listen to real or made up results

Activity: Footie Traffic LightsPlayers stand in a space with a ball each. They must steer their voiture (ball)

safely around without losing control. Teacher calls out:• Vert - players dribble around area.• Rouge - players stop & put foot on the ball.• Orange - players touch ball between insteps of both feet without moving.• Tournez - steer car (ball) to move in a different direction.Introduce vitesse (gears/speed) whilst in vert dribbling mode:• premier - slow jog• seconde - steady run• troisième - quick run

Finally add in the following instructions:• Collision! – all players must fall to ground & scream in pain then quickly

get up & carry on. • Flic! - teacher comes into the playing area & kicks balls out of playing

area if not under control; players have to go & fetch it & return as quickly as possible.

• Taxi! - players have to leave voiture (ball) & run to get in the taxi (two coned off areas outside each end of the playing area)

Pulse/Diet

• Arsene Wenger website

• Only vocabulary needed is days and mealtimes

• Homework activity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/football/diet.shtml

Activity:C’est bon pour la santé?• Divide class into teams.• Place markers between

teacher & teams.• One person from each

team dribbles football between markers to get to teacher, collects flashcard & dribbles back to team.

• Team sorts flashcard into bon/mauvais pour la santé while next player begins dribbling.

• First team to have sorted 10 words is winner.

Variations:

• Use pictures & words for beginners.

• Could be on any topic – use gender, plurals etc as categories

• For more experienced learners use words that build into a sentence.

Le corps.la tête

les genoux

les pieds

les oreilles

les épaules

le nezla bouche

les yeux

• Tête, épaules genoux, pieds

(x 2)

• Les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche, le nez,

• Tête, épaules genoux, pieds

There is a version on Take Ten en Francais

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ACTIVITY: Body Parts Dribble• Pairs of players start at one side of a large playing area.• The first player dribbles the ball out to the far side of the

playing area then performs a turn before dribbling back to stop the ball on the starting cone line for their partner.

• Partner repeats performing the same turn.• After a few goes each demonstrate a different type of

turn for the players to perform. Players repeat dribble & turn sequence using the new turn (techniques could include: drag back turn, inside/outside of the foot cut, Cruyff turn…)

• As players continue the coach can then shout out body parts & whoever is dribbling the ball at that time has to stop & place that body part on the ball as quickly as possible.

• On a signal from the coach, players then carry on.

Follow a tournament:

• Have a draw so each child represents a country/team.

• That child reports back match scores

• Set daily/weekly goals• Readymade

resources to adapt on DCS website

http://www.deseducation.org/

Video example from Graeme’s school – not to be distributed via

Internet

Your first goal:

Find the country you will now be supporting on a map of the world & label it.

Play Trumps:• Play like trumps: Deal

out cards. Ist player chooses category & reads his number aloud. Highest number takes cards & starts next round. Winner has most/all cards.

• Play like Happy Families: As-tu le gardien Français?

‘Vocab to play Trumps’

• Bigger numbers or• Have you got….? As – tu.….?• the goalie…………le gardien de but• the striker………...l’attaquant• the midfielder…….le milieu de terrain• the defender……..la défense• français / allemand

FC Coco from Fun with French (Salut Serge)

- fantastic cartoon of an animal football team, which years 5 & 6 in

particular will love!

Design a team’s strip (colours & clothes)

• Draw colour & label own

• Colour according to teacher’s target language labels

• Link description of strip to picture

Personal Identity

• Link descriptions of players to their pictures.

• Find out how many languages spoken by own favourite teams.

• Watch Beckham speaking spanish! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H4LJOVS6xxA&feature=related

TeacherTube – Gorseville Euro 08

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RemccB-Uo6k

(something to be inspired by?)

Football & MFL Websites

• All of the following Footie sites and more are listed on http://del.icio.us/devonlanguages/football

http://www.soccerlingua.net/

http://www.sunderlandschools.org/international/resources-worldcup.htm

Galactik Football bei Jetix

• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2ReCBoexOoQ

• Watch and then tell me – when is this program on?

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/lhr/stu/ks2/en2302049.htm

http://www.ukgermanconnection.org/cms/?location_id=706

Mr Woo video from YouTube

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kmUQxlkeoYg