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ESL / EFL Lesson Plan on France 0 Mexico 2 - by Sean Banville

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LISTENING GAP-FILL

Mexico _________________________ of the tournament by beating 1998 champions France 2-0. France are now _________________________ the tournament, with just one point from two games. Mexico deserved their win. They played with _________________________ the game. The _________________________ but Mexico had more of the attacks and looked more likely to score. Mexico _________________________ the 64th minute. Javier Hernandez slipped past French ‘keeper Hugo Lloris to fire home a shot. France _________________________ response to being a goal down. Their aging superstars could not keep up with the _________________________ youthful Mexicans. Mexico _______________________ a penalty on 79 minutes. Pablo Barrera was _______________________ and Cuauhtemoc Blanco put the ball in _________________________ from the penalty spot.

CORRECT THE SPELLING

Mexico provided the second okshc of the tournament by beating 1998 anoicpmhs France 2-0. France are now in danger of exiting the tournament, with just one nptio from two games. Mexico deserved their win. They played with more eesdri throughout the game. The first half ended goalless but Mexico had more of the satctak and looked more likely to score. Mexico opened the ocrsign in the 64th minute. Javier Hernandez slipped past French ‘keeper Hugo Lloris to fire home a shot. France offered very little in posenres to being a goal down. Their aging sspasrteru could not keep up with the dynamism of the more youthful Mexicans. Mexico sealed their yocvtir with a penalty on 79 minutes. Pablo Barrera was ppeitrd in the box and Cuauhtemoc Blanco put the ball in the back of the net from the penalty spot.

UNJUMBLE THE WORDS

Mexico the provided the of shock second tournament by beating 1998 champions France 2-0. France are now in exiting tournament of the danger, with just one point from two games. Mexico deserved their win. They played more the desire with throughout game. The first half ended goalless but attacks more the had Mexico of and more looked score to likely. Mexico opened the scoring in the 64th minute. Javier Hernandez slipped past French ‘keeper Hugo Lloris to fire home a shot. France offered response in little very being to a goal down. Their aging superstars with dynamism not up the could keep of the more youthful Mexicans. Mexico victory sealed with their a penalty on 79 minutes. Pablo Barrera was tripped in the box and Cuauhtemoc Blanco ball the of the in back put the net from the penalty spot.

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 _____________
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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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