Literacy

Try out match commentary as a group or individual task.

Possible resources to use:

- Scotland's qualifying matches for the World Cup 

- Scotland's matches at the World Cup

Create captions for football images and photos.

Use football photos or images to convey match results, tension, injury, incident etc.

Possible resource; images of Scotland's qualifying campaign for the World Cup.

Additional or alternative task; caption iconic images from Scotland's Men's and Women's Teams past World Cup participation.

Try different ways match reporting e.g. match previews, live action reports, post match analysis etc.

Possible contexts:

- Scotland's qualifying matches for the World Cup

- Scotland's World Cup matches

Scotland's National Team created news headlines - qualifying for their first Men's World Cup in 28 years.

Create Headlines capturing this historic news.

There were some ups and downs throughout the qualifying campaign.

Additional or alternative task; create headlines from various games and stages of the qualifying campaign.

Task 1

Lots of potential material to support reading, e.g:

- Matchday programmes

- Match reports

- Football magazines/annuals

- Football fiction/non-fiction

- Newspaper/online football news

- Scouting reports

Task 2

Learners collect and share World Cup reading articles.

These could all be from the above examples. 

Use audio and or visual presentation, e.g. vlog, podcast, video, to;

- report on a World Cup match

- preview or review a World Cup match

Many teams and fans from across the World will be travelling to USA, Canada & Mexico.

Create a useful travel guide for people visiting these countries and, in particular, the host cities.

Task 1

Create player profiles or biographies of the potential Scotland squad for the World Cup.

Task 2

Create player profiles or biographies of players from Brazil, Morocco & Haiti (Scotland's opponents at the World Cup).

Task 3

Create player profiles or biographies of selected players at the World Cup.

Explain the format of the World Cup tournament.

Additional or alternative challenges could be;

- explain the UEFA (European) qualifying process for the the World Cup

- explain CONMEBOL (South American) qualifying process for the the World Cup

- explain CONCACAF (Central American) qualifying process for the the World Cup

Learners could even have created their own tournament and could explain the format they've designed.

A chance for learners to work on their imaginative/creative writing skills whilst using recount support to include factual information.

Learners use match reports to insert themselves into a match.

In their writing, learners can adopt the perspective of;

- a match official

- a spectator

- a player

- a coach etc.