Using Football Texts to Support Reading
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 EURO 2024 reading articles.
These could be all be from the above examples.
Enjoyment and choice LIT -11a
Tools for reading ENG -12a
Creating a supporter's guide
Many teams and fans from across Europe will be travelling to Germany.
Create a useful travel guide for people visiting Germany and, in particular, the host cities.
Writing Lit -26a, -28a
Match Commentary
Try out match commentary as a group or individual task.
Possible resources to use:
- Scotland's qualifying matches for EURO 2024
- Scotland's matches at EURO 2024
Listening and Talking Lit -01a, -02a, -05a, -06a, -09a, -10a
Using digital products and services in a variety of contexts to achieve a purposeful outcome TCH -01a
Captioning
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 EURO 2024.
Writing Lit -24a, -27a
Player Profiles
Task 1
Create player profiles or biographies of the Scotland squad for EURO 2024.
Task 2
Create player profiles or biographies of players at EURO 2024.
Reading Lit -14a
Writing Lit -26a
The format of a football tournament
Explain the format of EURO 2024.
Learners could even create their own tournament and explain the format they've designed.
Writing Lit -26a, -28a
Match Reporting
Try different ways match reporting e.g. match previews, live action reports, post match analysis etc.
Possible contexts:
- Scotland's qualifying matches for EURO 2024
- Scotland's EURO 2024 matches
Listening and Talking Lit -01a, -02a, -05a, -06a, -09a, -10a
Writing Lit -20a, -24a, -25a, -26a, -28a
By participating in many learning activities, learners will gather information to use for a variety of purposes
Reading Lit -14a, -15a
Use personal reading to explore content in football magazines, annuals, skills and tactics books
Reading Lit -11a, -13a
