Teach English Using the Soccer World Cup

Use the FIFA World Cup in Germany as a tool for teaching English?
No, I'm not kidding. Using popular events like the FIFA World Cup in Germany to learn English is in fact practical. Students' affective filter (Krashen and Terrell, 1983) is so low with events like this to learn English, "a cockroach can go on.

You can imagine the reactions of my students when I announced, "For everyone's English class watching World Cup matches?

"This is fantastic!" "Professor, is the best!" "Oh man, never had a budget well in English!"

Although not a big football fan myself, I think it would be interesting to see games between teams never know how each other play during the regular season. Italy-Ghana? The E.U.A. against the Czech Republic? Holland x Ivory Coast? Awesome!

The work of the games in the English language to practice, students should use their skills in a variety of ways, using Task-Based Learning (J. Willis, 1998), plus a number of content-based instruction ( Richards and Rogers, 1993). Ghana and Italy together business? If so, what types of products or services? useful activities for students such as:

Preparation and donation profiles competing countries, including economics, geography, cities of the Capitol, etc.

Being able to locate countries on a world map and the neighboring countries and geographical features

talk about the key players in each team or in the dialogues between the players / coaches / fans,

describing aspects of the main players in each team - age, height, weight, hair, appearance, marital status and other characteristics, such as bald, keys, sunglasses, tattoos, etc.

elements such as the football player positions, scoring, and even how to play the game

By commenting on the game and goals with the active or passive voice

predictions using the future tense "will" or "will"

Using markers of discourse, or ways to express uncertainty (maybe, possibly, maybe, can, can, can, etc.)

Students are free to work in formats they want, provided they remain active and involved in the process. Some games are written with highlights reviewed and discussed in class. Some games are viewed during the hours of tuition through multi-media facilities at the university.

Other possible activities include:

Inform

the development of vocabulary lists in context-based vocabulary items (Thornbury, 2002)

talk time / descriptions of the cities where matches are played

local architecture

Regional food

Celebrations of

clothing

in almost every aspect of the cultural students to meet new and interesting

At the end (surprise!) All students have a portfolio "extended" from writing and multi-media materials that allowed them to extend the four basic skills practice English. the practice of writing, based on a process (White, 1987) or Product-based (Fowler, 1988) Students also have ample opportunity, the practice in English listening comprehension. Sports with different moderators and commentators from different countries who speak English with a variety of accents, the elements of listening and the problems are investigated. (Brown and Yule 1983)

So these activities are transforming the FIFA World Cup Germany into a tool for teaching English language great. The process can be deployed and used in other international sporting events like the Olympics, World Series baseball, American football Super Bowl or another world several regional events. Should sports or other events where you live. How to effectively utilize their English EFL or ESL students learn?