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Football World Cup
The World Cup is by now a distant memory but the excitement and curiosity produced by the tournament still lingers in both Japan and the UK. It is still an ideal opportunity for your students to ask their e-link friends questions about football and football culture in both the UK and Japan. Why not motivate your students to base their e-mails and exchanges around the following football-themed ideas for the following months?Useful Links
For excellent links on the web to useful football-themed teaching ideas, and for internet-based projects, please check out the following sites.
UK-Japan Live!
http://www.japanuklive.org/english/index.html
This site, created by Japan Festival Education Trust, provides British and Japanese students with an excellent opportunity to 'talk' to each other using a Bulletin Talk Board. With the focus of the sporting world firmly on Japan, curious UK students are free to ask questions to their Japanese counterparts on a wide variety of topics while the Japanese students are able to share their own views and opinions and queries about the UK. The emphasis, however, is on developing a coherent, themed discussion over a specific period, with teachers at both ends ensuring the success of the ongoing project.
The site provides worksheets with ideas on how to continue a theme, ways of incorporating the discussion into the classroom through research exercises, and explanations on how the Talk Board can be used successfully in a Japan/UK day or cultural festival. There is also a page for teachers to post messages concerning ways to collaborate using UK-Japan Live!
Football Culture
http://www.footballculture.net/
Footballculture is a site produced by the British Council and the BBC. It was awarded best sports and recreation site of the year 2000 by the UK version of the search engine Yahoo. A very interactive site with a strong emphasis on participation - quizzes, questions, guessing games, worksheets, sentence-making by dragging words to boxes, putting words in the right order, etc.
Features a Football English section with many exercises and language games for those football supporters who want to improve their English.
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