Activity

Soccer Speaking And Writing Games

A pair speaking game and a writing group game

UPDATE 2022

I moved the hyperlink from the goalie to a small invisible square on the bottom left side of screen. This is for going to the game over screen. If you accidentally go to the game over screen then click on one of the boxes there. It should take you back into the game.

On the soccer pair speaking games if you click on the small boxes with the key words it will make a large banner with the key words appear. If you click on that banner it will vanish.

On the screen that demonstrates the writing I changed question one a little. If you click the button the question appears, click the question and the picture appears, Click the picture and it shows a zoomed in picture. Click that to see the answer and the answer to make them all vanish.

On the 'non-park life' writing activity I simplified the challenges. Rather than combining sentences they just fill in the blanks. My teaching partners this year want to keep things easy.

Notes

This is based on a number of previously posted materials. There are links on the side.

Small Talk

This is something we do at the beginning of my lessons. Delete if you do your own version.

Soccer Speaking Game

The slide show has a demonstrate for this although when I use it on its own I usually just demonstrate with A3 copies of the game paper. It is played in pairs. The ball/eraser starts in the center and the kids pick a side, Japan or Brazil. They do Janken and then move the eraser in the direction of the loser's goal. The winner then makes a sentence or question based on the target language above that part of the field. The loser can react or answer the question depending on the target language. Continue to play Jankan and moving the eraser until somebody gets a goal. Record the goal in the team box and then move the eraser back to the center and continue playing. Continue play for two or three minutes and then stop everyone and ask who got the most goals.

There are generally two different sheets so when I hand out the sheets I make certain one row gets match one and the neighbour row gets match two. This way the game can be played twice.

Afterward there is space for writing. I usually give them two or three minutes to write sentences. I don't usually check these in class. I often skip this if I'm moving onto a writing exercise.

About the powerpoint demonstration. You click on center to make the first ball appear. Click on the boxes in the direction to make the ball move in those directions. Click on the space under the team name to make score checks appear. And if you click on the writing practice box it will show a sample sentence. If you click on that it will disappear. Arrows for moving onto the next or previous slide.

Soccer Writing Game

Do the demonstration before making groups. Each group will get a question sheet and each student should have a writing sheet on the back of their pair soccer game copies. Click on the A at the bottom to show the first question, click on the question to show a partial answer and click on that to show a full answer. Finally click on it to make it vanish then click on center or right. This will be a miss...no point. Click on B to show another example then click on Left to get a goal and say that team gets a point. Now tell them to click on the word goal to move to the next slide. This is if you are using a tablet and the kids are controlling the game screen and points. Otherwise one teacher handles answer checking and then the students tell the other teacher whether they want center, left or right. The kids can still write their own points on the board.

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  • 3-04C SOCCER Writing and Speaking Games Review (with Park Life).docx (802 KB)
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  • 3-04C SOCCER Writing and Speaking Games Review 2022.docx (1.84 MB)
  • 3-04C SOCCER Writing and Speaking Games Review 2022.pptx (7.92 MB)
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    Submitted by UonumaRobert September 28, 2021 Estimated time: Most of a lesson although some groups might finish quickly

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