Fun with Football
and Languages
Hampshire LSG, Wednesday 24 March 2010
and Thursday 25 March 2010
The Language of Football
• Practical Activities
• Useful websites and resources
• Linking into the Football World Cup 2010
Warm-up
• Vert
• Orange
• Rouge
Courez !
Marchez !
Arrêtez !
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Sautez !
Faites une étoile
Marchez régulièrement !
Courez en arrière !
Bleu
Jaune
Noir
Blanc
drei
zwei
eins
vier
sechs
sieben
fünf
zehn
acht
neun
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 Lights
Players 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
Activity: Footie Traffic Lights
Finally add in the following instructions:
• 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)
• Collision! – all players must fall to ground &
scream in pain then quickly get up & carry on.
Play Trumps:
• Play like trumps: Deal
out cards. First player
chooses category and
reads his number aloud.
Highest number takes
cards and starts next
round. Winner has
most/all cards.
• Play like Happy Families:
As-tu le gardien
Français?
‘Vocabulary 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
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
Diet
• Arsene Wenger
website
• Only vocabulary
needed is days and
mealtimes
• Homework activity
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 (not just healthy /
unhealthy) – use gender, plurals etc as
categories
• For more experienced learners use words
that build into a sentence.
Die Körperteile
der Kopf
die Schulter
der Arm
das Bein
das Knie
der Fuß
das Haar
der Ellenbogen
der Rücken
die Hand
das Gesäß
das Fußgelenk
Le corps.
la tête
les yeux
les oreilles
les épaules
les genoux
les pieds
la bouche
le nez
• Tête, épaules, genoux,
pieds, genoux, pieds
(x 2)
• Les yeux, les oreilles, la
bouche et le nez,
• Tête, épaules,
genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds
• Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds, genoux,
pieds
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds
Les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche et le
nez
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds
• Tête, épaules, genoux pieds
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds, genoux,
pieds
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds
Les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche et le
nez
Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds,
genoux, pieds
Take Ten en Français
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
and whoever is dribbling the ball at that time has to stop
and place that body part on the ball as quickly as possible.
• On a signal from the coach, players then carry on.
FC Coco from Fun with French
(Salut Serge)
-fantastic cartoon of an animal
football team, which children in
years 5 and 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
TeacherTube –
Gorseville Euro 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zamnHciXNgg
(something to be inspired by?)
Football and Languages
Websites
• All of the following Footie sites and more
are listed on
http://del.icio.us/devonlanguages/football
http://www.soccerlingua.net/
ARSENAL DOUBLE CLUB
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Institut Français
The Goethe Institute
UK-German Connection
Consejería de Educación
Language modules are suitable for Years 7-9 and aim to
raise the profile of languages in schools and motivate
and encourage those on the programme to take a
language at GCSE
• Now also have Primary German, French and Spanish
French modules
• These modules are designed for boys and girls who
would benefit from some extra language teaching and
who have an interest in football. They do not have
to be elite players or Arsenal fans!
http://www.sunderlandschools.org/international/reso
urces-worldcup2010.htm
Clare Seccombe - Sunderland LA support teacher
for
PMFL and the International Dimension
ready…get set…go global! 7.7.09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf75aNi6dKo
Follow a tournament:
• Have a draw so each
child represents a
country/team.
• The children report
back match scores
• Set the children
weekly goals
(geographical, PE,
language)
Your first goal:
Find the country
you will now be
supporting on a
map of the world
and label it.
Discover
the Teams
1.Draw a footballer in pencil or find a
colouring picture.
2.Research one of the countries
playing in the World Cup Finals
2010.
3.Fill your footballer with information
about the country.
©MFL Sunderland 2010 CS http://www.sunderlandschools.org/international
Mr Woo video from YouTube
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kmUQxlkeoYg