Even if you're not a footie fan, this summer's World Cup can kick off some memorable lessons.Do you know Zakumi? ?? Zakumi (born 16 June 1994 (1994-06-16) (age 15)) is the Official Mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He is an anthropomorphised leopard with green hair, presented on 22 September 2008. His name comes from "ZA", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means ten in various African languages.
The green and yellow (gold) colours of the character match the colours used in South African sport uniforms and can also be seen in the South Africa national football team's kit.
Are you a Footie fan? I consider myself a footie fan!!!!!!but if you don't, may be your pupils yes. Anyway do you know that the World Cup is a wonderful event to teach them countries, nationalities, traditions, history , vocabulary, art design, music and more ?
We, as "teachers", can use the tournament as a vehicle to drive pupils' learning in a wide range of curriculum areas.
Surfing the web I found you wonderful sites to learn about one of the most beautiful sports in the world "football".
Here you can find motivated activities to give to your students and learn a lot with them
And if you like to make your own activities Click on the mascot , and you can find more information about the world cup including a trail of Zakumi , the video and Lyrics of the World Cup song to work with your pupils
Oh...I didn't know about the mascot but I think it would be fantastic to use it in the classroom with children. The links are great to introduce them into the culture of other countries and the songs would be useful to make a final activity of the year, even they could represent them jeje..
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