This history timeline, ‘South African Sports Highlights’ features important dates and factual background information about the nation’s leading sports people and events that marked key moments in the country’s history. This is a great resource for broadening students’ historical and cultural knowledge about South Africa and could be used as a prompt for further discussion …More
This history article, ‘Against All Odds’ features some amazing and unbelievable events in sporting history. It provides factual information and is aimed at broadening students’ scientific and historical awareness.
This quick reference text, ‘Brazil: Fast Facts’ features a quick review of factual information about Brazil. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical, historical and cultural awareness of the world’s fifth largest country by providing a summary of key facts accompanied by informative images.
This Brazilian flag bunting can be reproduced and used as part of a colourful classroom display. The bunting is formatted as two flags per page. Each flag includes drawn cut-out holes allowing them to be strung together and hung in the classroom.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Kristine Lilly’ asks students to answer questions about a famous American soccer player. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make judgements, form opinions and think about author purpose.
This worksheet, ‘My Trophy Design’ is a great resource that encourages students to use adjectives in describing the elements of trophy. The resource then asks students to illustrate and label a design of their own trophy and explain why those elements were included.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Pele’ asks students to answer questions about Pele, one of the world’s greatest soccer players. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and think about word meanings.
This ‘Player of the Match Certificate (boy)’ is an award that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
This ‘Player of the Match Certificate (girl)’ is an award that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
This worksheet, ‘Profile of a Soccer Player’ is a simple yet effective worksheet that provides students with a template to organise information about a soccer star. Use this resource during international sporting competitions or to encourage engagement and interest in sport. It is also an exercise that requires students to select only the most relevant …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Soccer’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, and understand sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Soccer’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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 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 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 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.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘You Never Can Tell’, features a narrative text about prejudice encountered in a soccer team. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about setting, character, sequence, mood/tone, reasoning, detail, cause and effect, fact/opinion, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, and the main …More
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