Reporting back from PLS #2 - Euro08
This session was resented by the very entertaining Nigel Pearson, one of the Primary Language Advisor at CILT and Katja Neubauer, Junior Director of the European Initiative at the
Beginning by acknowledging that unfortunately
Use it as an exercise in ICU:
- Look at the logo – colour, shapes used, design
- There are 16 countries taking part from across
- Flags – kids could make them, wave them and chant the names of the countries whilst you bang rhythm on a tambourine.
- Mark countries on am map
- Have a table of progress to be filled in throughut the tournament.
- Trix und Flix are the mascots (descriptions / design your own) – it takes place in
- Web searches for information about host towns
Nigel and Katya then introduced us to some vocabulary to do with fitness and football such as run, jog, head (the ball), jump etc with actions and a range of games to practice and reinforce -
What’s missing? ¿Qué falta?
Hot or cold ¿Frío o caliente?
Corners - like NSEW
Flashreading – flash the card very fast - ¿qué es?
Echo the word – using different voices
Throwing words – using a ball, throw it at a word – class read word it hits or teacher says the word and pupils throw it at the correct word. (headers whilst counting in TL)
What’s on the card? ¿Qué hay en la tarjeta? Using sí and no, can also be done with drawing part of a gallows to add to the competition, and could also be developed fromsingle word responses into sentences e.g. Un estadio; Es un estadio; pienso que es un estadio.
Memory game – numbers on front of card, guess the word behind it – practices number and vocabulary too. Kids (and us adults playing today!) are fiercely competitive!!
Number football – headers that you count – can always mime! Or a penalty shootout. And why not some Klinsmann dives!
Further football linked activities included –
Describe a player - uses personal identification questions and answers
Footballers are heroes for many of our pupils so why not let the kids research and use ICT for presentation of their favourite (foreign) player?.
Design shorts / strip for football – can add other equipment for football. Add extra information to reuse vocabulary in different contexts eg colours used for school uniform, favourite colours, eyes etc
Blow football – shout appropriate cheers like animo, venga, gol etc
Songs - Katya and Nigel presented a song in German about football to the tune of Frere Jacques– I’ve quickly translated into Spanish:
Juego al fútbol, juego al fútbol
Es genial, es genial
Muchos muchos goles
Muchos muchos goles
Uno a cero.
Uno a cero.
You can modify the lastline to add more scores, add countries etc
España cuatro, Francia tres or
España gana, Alemania pierde - I think you might be able to guess who I'm supporting :o)
Nigel also shared a French song from the World Cup. I quickly opened Audacity on my laptop and recorded it -it's in My Box of Goodies on the right! :o) (Thanks to Nigel who kindly said that was OK!)
Football sans frontières
Ça c’est super.
Brésil et Bulgarie
Pays Bas et Italie
Belgique et Tunisie
The session concluded with a couple of websites that might be helpful - there will no doubt be more nearer the time, and I'll post any that I find.
As I've blogged before, Euro 08 is already in focus at my school through Chris Fuller's Euro08 project which joins schools across the country as we find out about our allocated participating country prior to meeting up in June for a tournament of our own. Already in training - Jo Rhys-Jones looks rather nippy and Chris Fuller climbs - and that's just the teachers :-o
There's room for more schools to be involved - let Chris know if you're interested!
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