World Cup for Older Learners
The following teaching & learning opportunities have been designed with Second Level learners in mind.
Professional judgement should applied when delivering these possibilities and activities can and should be adapted to meet the needs of your learners.
Writing
Imaginative Recount
Learners use match reports to provide details for their imaginative recount piece of writing.
Learners can choose from a variety of perspectives to insert themselves into the match and write in first-person as;
- An Official
- A Spectator
- A Player
- A Coach etc.
UEFA - Scotland v Denmark Match Report UEFA - Greece v Scotland Match Report
Challenge 2
How Scotland brought football to Brazil
Many consider Brazil to be the best football nation in terms of rich history and brilliant past players such as Pele, Zico, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.
The country is often revered as the template of how football should be played using flare, dribbling and attractive football.
Yet, such lessons and teachings are always passed on by previous generations and key individuals, who are up-held as pioneers of the game. These worshipped, influential figures that paved the way for successful Brazilian football were, indeed, Scottish immigrants.
scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
Task 1
There are statues of Thomas Donohoe in Bagu (Brazil) and Busby (Glasgow, Scotland) in honour of his contribution to football in Brazil.
- Find out more about Thomas Donohoe and other Scots credited with taking football to Brazil.
- Create profiles of these Scots
- Map the places of significance in Scotland and Brazil
- Place significant dates on an historical timeline
Click button below to access the Scottish Football Museum page for more information.
Task 2
Brazil is widely considered the most successful national football team in history.
They are the only nation to have won the FIFA World Cup five times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) and are the only team to participate in every edition of the tournament since 1930.
olympics.com
Click button below to access the Olympics.com page for more information.
- Profile Brazil's footballing success
- Place significant dates on an historical timeline
- Profile some of the most iconic players from Brazil's history at the World Cup
- Mark Brazil's ever-present participation by profiling another historical event for the year matching every World Cup they have appeared in
- Chart Brazil's World Cup wins against other winning nations in a graph
- Plot a line graph of the tournament stage Brazil have reached in every World Cup e.g. Winners, Runners-up, Semi-finalists, Quarter-finalists etc.
Scottish Football Museum - How Scotland brought football to Brazil Olympics.com - Most FIFA World Cup Wins
Challenge 3
FIFA World Cup Host City Artwork
Artwork has been created to represent the host cities across Mexico, Canada and USA.
Task 1
Use the stimulus of official FIFA World Cup artwork to explore imagery representing host cities.
- Learners; What do you see?
- Research relevance of imagery e.g. much of the imagery uses iconic landmarks or images specific to the host city
- Research potential relevance of colour and/or artistic style
Task 2
- Using the above criteria of iconic imagery, colours, artistic style etc; Create 'official' team posters
