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ESL / EFL Lesson Plan on France 1 South Africa 2 - by Sean Banville

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LISTENING GAP-FILL

For _________________________ people dared believe the impossible was about to happen – that South Africa could beat France _________________________ qualify for the next round. It _________________________ when Bongani Khumalo headed in after 21 minutes, even though it _________________________. Disaster happened for France five minutes later when Yoan Gourcuff was sent off for _________________________ on MacBeth Sibiya – _________________________ decision. South Africa’s second came after 37 minutes. Katlego Mphela bundled the ball over the line. News that Uruguay had scored against Mexico in the other group game brought _________________________. South Africa needed two second half goals against ten men and they would be second in the group. Instead, France _________________________. The French came bottom.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

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UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

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STUDENT WORLD CUP SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about the World Cup in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.
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• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.
• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

WORLD CUP DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
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 WRITING

Write about this game for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper.

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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. MY REPORT: Write a newspaper report about yesterday’s games. Read your report to your partner(s) in your next lesson.

3. WATCH TODAY’S GAMES IN ENGLISH: Write down all the new words you hear below. Bring them to class tomorrow to share with your classmates.

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