Preparation:

Read through the notes. Students will have name tags with a small country flag on each. There are four teams (countries). England, Germany, Brazil and France. The students stay in their groups and earn points as they progress through the activities. Manage the scores to keep things competitive and represent them as football scores. E.g. England 1 – Germany 1

ACTIVITY 1 - World Cup Bingo

This is a very simple task for lower levels. Cut up the table and give one group to each student, pair or group. Tell them you are going to play bingo using the groups playing in the World Cup.

Before you start write all the countries on small bits of paper or card and put them in an envelope. (You could get the students to do this quickly in the class by writing the countries of their group on cards.)

Then play a normal bingo game by pulling out the countries one by one. Students tick them off as they hear them called. To make the bingo more challenging, instead of saying the country directly, give students a clue instead. For example, ‘This country is the host of the World Cup this year’ for Brazil or ‘This country is famous for its pasta and pizzas’ for Italy. Grade the clues and your language according to the level you’re teaching. When one group has got a ‘bingo’ ask them to be the bingo caller for the next round.

GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C GROUP D

Spain Mexico New Zealand France

Argentina Nigeria Korea Republic Greece

England USA Switzerland Italy

Germany Australia Japan Brazil

ACTIVITY 2 - World Map Board Race In this activity, the winning group will be the group that can plot the most countries on their world map within a time limit. They can use drawing pins (thumbtacks) or blutac. The teacher can decide on the time limit.

Each group will require a separate map so that they can’t cheat. The countries that they will need to identify are the countries used in the previous Bingo game.

ACTIVITY 3 - A World Cup Mascot Show examples of previous World Cup Mascots. Hold up the character flashcards. See if you can elicit the countries or even the names of one or two of them. Tell the students to think of the countries flags.

1. Ask the following question:

“If the World cup was in Thailand, what would the mascot look like?” Follow up with: “What type of animal or thing would you use?” ________________________________________________________ “What colours would you use?” ________________________________________________________

2. “How would you describe the 2010 World Cup mascot Zakumi?” Draw the following table up on the whiteboard. Hold up the flashcard of Zakumi. Complete the table by eliciting from the students.

How many?

What do you think it?

Size Where does it come from?

What is it? (noun)

How many? What do you think it? Size Where does it come from?

What is it? (noun)

A cute and cuddly small (baby)

African leopard

Note: You could add more columns to be more descriptive i.e. age, colour, dependent upon the age or level of the students.

3. Design your own World Cup mascot ________________________________________________________ Come up with a name for your character. _________________________________________________________ Present your mascot to the group. Each group nominates a spokesperson who will present their mascot to the other groups using the adjective order taught earlier. ________________________________________________________ If you have more time play the following ball games.

Game 1 Have the students stand in a circle. The first student thinks of a country and shouts out loud the name of that country e.g. England and throws the ball to another student. That student has to take the last letter from the name of the previous country i.e. England (D) and shout out the name of another country. In this example it could be Denmark. After a round or two, speed things up and have students drop out for things like hesitation or repeating the name of a country.

Game 2 Have the students stand in a circle. Play the same or similar game to the one above. This time however, if a person makes a mistake, have them stand on one leg and continue playing the game. They can return to standing on both legs if they are successful (answer correctly) the next time. If a student is already on one leg, and get the wrong answer then they have to kneel on the ground and so on and so on. Once again, they can work their way up to standing on both legs by getting the right answers.

Choose a winning team! Hand out prizes. Flash cards below….

Previous mascots