This reading comprehension activity, ‘Skiing and Snowboarding’ asks students to answer questions about skiing and snowboarding. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This sports article, ‘Snowboard’ features the Winter Olympics’ newest discipline and a snowboard record breaking fact. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of this sport. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Snowboarding Equipment’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text about this sport. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to examine how the text is organised and …More
This worksheet, ‘Snowboarding Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Winter Olympic sport, snowboarding. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the history of that sport, the nature of the sport in today’s Winter Olympics and past gold medal winners. It allows students …More
This sports article, ‘Soccer Boots’ features facts about soccer boots. It provides information about some famous soccer boot moments in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Fields’ features facts about the regulations of a soccer field. It provides information about some famous field firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Goalkeepers’ features facts about goalkeepers. It provides information about some famous goalkeeper firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Hat Tricks’ features facts about hat tricks. It provides information about some famous hat trick firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Mascots’ features facts about some of the different FIFA World Cup mascots over the years. It provides information about some famous mascot firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Penalty Cards’ features yellow cards and red cards. It provides information about some famous penalty firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Players’ features facts about soccer players and the positions they play. It provides information about some famous player firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Referees’ features the role of the referee in the game of soccer. It provides information about some famous referee moments and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Rules’ features how soccer rules first came about. It provides information about some important rules in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This set of ‘Soccer Shirt Cards’ is a simple yet effective way to incorporate the FIFA World Cup into classroom activities. They can be used in maths activities in ordering numbers, creating patterns or mathematical games. This resource is form fillable to allow numbers to be entered and then printed. Alternatively, the resource can be …More
This sports article, ‘Soccer Shirts’ features facts about the numbers and names on soccer shirts. It provides information about some famous shirt firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Substitutes’ features facts about substituting soccer players during a match. It provides information about some famous substitute firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Soccer Teams’ features facts about soccer teams. It provides information about some famous team firsts in the FIFA World Cup and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sports awareness in an engaging manner.
This worksheet, ‘Soccer Uniform’ is a great resource that encourages students to describe the purpose of a soccer player’s uniform. The resource then asks students to illustrate and label a design of their own uniform that meets the needs of a soccer player.
This sports article, ‘Sochi Mascot: Hare’ features the story behind this mascot, which is one of three mascots at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It also features other mascots from previous Winter Olympics. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Sochi Mascot: Leopard’ features the story behind one of the three mascots at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It also features other mascots from previous Winter Olympics. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Sochi Mascot: Polar Bear’ features the story behind this mascot, which is one of three mascots at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It also features other mascots from previous Winter Olympics. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This sports article, ‘Speed Skating’ features the debut of speed skating in the Winter Olympics programme and a speed skating record breaking fact. It provides factual background information and is aimed at broadening students’ historical and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This worksheet, ‘Speed Skating Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Winter Olympic sport, speed skating. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the history of that sport, the nature of the sport in today’s Winter Olympics and past gold medal winners. It …More
This vocabulary activity, ‘Sports’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to match associated sports words.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sports Match the Picture’ asks students to write words to match pictures that relate to sports. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Sports Match the Word’ asks students to identify words and pictures that relate to sports. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recognise the association between a picture and a word describing it.
This sports article, ‘Squash’ features this fast-paced indoor sport. It provides information about the origins of the sport in England. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical, cultural and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This worksheet, ‘Squash Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Commonwealth Games sport, squash. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students to demonstrate …More
This article, ‘Table Tennis’ describes the history of table tennis and explains its rules. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This sports article, ‘Table Tennis’ features the equipment needed to play the sport. It provides information about the sport’s beginnings. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical, cultural and sporting awareness in an engaging manner.
This worksheet, ‘Table Tennis Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, table tennis. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students …More
This worksheet, ‘Tallying Olympics Host Countries’ is a fantastic resource to link mathematics with the Olympics. Students are provided with a chart to record the past host countries and on how many occasions they have held the Games. Students are then asked to interpret the results of their research. This activity can be completed as …More
This story, ‘The Ball Game’ is a first-person recount of an exciting neighbourhood baseball game. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This worksheet, ‘The Biathlon’ is a visual exercise which require students to illustrate the sequence of a biathlon event. This is an ideal resource to introduce a very interesting Winter Olympic sport to younger years. It can be used to prompt discussion in correlation with a multimedia clip showing a Biathlon, or following individual or …More
This informational text, ‘The Brazilian Flag’ is a great resource that outlines the meaning behind the design of the Brazilian flag. It outlines the history and significance of the green, yellow, blue globe with the stars and the phrase “Ordem e Progresso”.
This informational text, ‘The Geography of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian geography. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key concepts with engaging images.
This informational text, ‘The Geography of Scotland’ features factual information about the geography of Scotland. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key concepts with engaging images.
This informational text, ‘The History of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian history. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key events with engaging images.
The paired texts, ‘The Kite’ and ‘The Flight’ give different perspectives on kite flying. The story and poem express the actions and emotions of kite flying. They provide opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Magic Show’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about magicians and their tricks .It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Making of a Hero’, features a narrative about classmates who learn about teamwork when their teachers introduce a problem-solving approach to selecting players. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about figurative language, validity, fact/opinion, detail, cause and effect, drawing a …More
This worksheet, ‘The Olympic Mascot Story’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Olympic Games’ mascot. The resource provides students with a storyboard format to sequence the discovery of the mascot character. It also provides a platform to begin discussions about the qualities of mascots and why each Olympic Games has different …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Olympics’ asks students to answer questions about the Olympic Games. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, think about word meaning and form opinions.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Paralympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Special Olympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to make judgements about and draw conclusions …More
This worksheet, ‘The Triathlon’ is a visual exercise which require students to illustrate the sequence of a triathlon event. This is an ideal resource to introduce a very interesting Olympic sport to younger years. It can be used to prompt discussion in correlation with a multimedia clip showing a triathlon, or following individual or group …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The United States’ Greatest Athlete’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Jim Thorpe. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot Story’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot(s). The resource provides students with a storyboard format to sequence the discovery of the mascot character(s). It also provides a platform to begin discussions about the qualities of mascots and why each Winter Olympic …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Hare’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Hare. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected for Sochi …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Leopard’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Leopard. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected for Sochi …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Polar Bear’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Polar Bear. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected …More
This vocabulary activity, ‘The World of Sports’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to complete sentences using sports and games vocabulary.
This worksheet, ‘Timeline of Olympic Firsts’ provides a vertical timeline with space for students to explore five interesting dates about the history of the Olympic Games. The timeline spans the period from 1900 to 1994 and includes key dates relating to the history of the Winter Olympics. This resource allows students to demonstrate their knowledge …More
This worksheet, ‘Timeline of Olympic Firsts’ provides a vertical timeline with space for students to explore five interesting dates about the history of the Olympic Games. The timeline spans the period from 1896 to 2016 and includes key dates relating to the history of the Olympics. This resource allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘Tips for Buying Figure Skates’ supports students to use various strategies to understand an informative text. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words in order to …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘To the Playground’ asks students to answer questions about a short story, which is about some children who go the playground to play a game of baseball. It is aimed at developing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to recall details from the text.
This worksheet, ‘Tracking Group A Scores’ is a fantastically engaging activity that provides a table in which students can track the progress of group A teams through the group phase of the FIFA World Cup. Information to be entered includes: how many matches have been played out of the three matches in the group phase, …More
This worksheet, ‘Tracking Group B Scores’ is a fantastically engaging activity that provides a table in which students can track the progress of group B teams through the group phase of the FIFA World Cup. Information to be entered includes: how many matches have been played out of the three matches in the group phase, …More
This worksheet, ‘Tracking Group C Scores’ is a fantastically engaging activity that provides a table in which students can track the progress of group C teams through the group phase of the FIFA World Cup. Information to be entered includes: how many matches have been played out of the three matches in the group phase, …More
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