World Cup Activities, ideal for form time or project work. Differentiated and ready to use!

I’ve designed this as an ongoing resource to be returned to every regularly for the duration of the World Cup tournament.

It comes with a powerpoint that has all the participating teams on it. If you play the powerpoint then the images will quickly change. Press “S” and the slideshow will stop on a team. Press “S” again to re-start the slideshow. Using this method, each child can randomly select a team to follow. This team will also feature in their booklet as a research project.

The booklet starts with a page about the hosts of the tournament, Russia. It’s a research activity and so access to computers or books is helpful.

Next we look at the geography of Russia and the location of the stadiums. There are two sheets here which look identical but are not. One is aimed at a higher level than the other and this is distinguished by the World Cup icon in the top right. All future differentiated sheets for the higher ability have this icon.

Then we have the history of the tournament and again a differentiated version for lower ability students.

Following is a picture quiz where students have to name the winners of the previous tournaments.

Next is a research project where students are asked to design a poster for their previously selected team. There is a differentiated version for lower ability students with a number of prompt questions to help with research.

The next sheets each relate to the England football team. The tasks are to create a song/rap or chant, to design their football kit.

Next is an art project looking at the work of Wassily Kandinsky, a famous Russian artist with a particularly bright and vivid style. Students are asked to reproduce his work and this can be extended to adapt a football picture into his style of work and a blank canvas for the truly creative.

There then follows a focus on five famous players with an attached fact file and a drawing to colour in. Once this is completed there is a blank fact file for students to pick their favourite player and complete accordingly.

Next comes an English language task where students are asked to conduct a post-match interview with a player of their choice.

Finally there is a puzzle page with riddles and a word-search. The answers are on the final sheet.

There are a number of ways in which you can run this project:
You could compile the workbooks beforehand and hand them out so that they are differentiated to each class members ability.
You could hand out each page individually and then compile them at the end.
My ideal would be that everyone gets a different sheet so that everyone is doing a different task within the same time frame and then they are compiled at the end.

Any feedback, positive or negative, is greatly appreciated.