The World Cup Kick-off !!

Hello, everyone!

I invite you all to actively participate in this month blog post - The World Cup - by watching videos, reading articles, learning new vocabulary thru fun exercises, and sharing your opinion with your virtual classmates on this world event, which this year is being held in Brazil.

You can start by forecasting your score for the first game: Brazil x Croatia (June 12th at 5pm): .......... x ..........

Hope to see your comments on the Comment box (below this post) and the interaction with your blog friends.

Fingers crossed and let's wish the best to all the world teams!

Have a great World Cup!

Flávia

Let's get started! After each activity below (aimed at different language levels), there are some questions you can choose from to answer:

1) Fifa official song lyrics: We are one
   (Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leite)
What do you think of the lyrics? Did you like the three singers singing in 3 languages? Why?

2) Vocabulary: 
a) Look at the picture of the soccer field and players' position. For fun, you can name our Brazilian players next to their posts.

b) Below, you will see lots of words related to the Soccer Stadium. Match the Portuguese words on the left with their corresponding English translation on the right. The teacher will give the correct answers in class:

b)  Crossword Puzzle: Soccer expressions and vocabulary. The teacher will give the correct answers in class: 

3) Soccer History - Listen to the mp3 files below and fill in the blank spaces in the passages that follow. Then, answer the True or False questions proposed in part 2:

Soccer history - Part 1

Soccer history - Part 2

4) World Cup team profile: Brazil - Youtube video

Interviews with Neymar, coach Luis Felipe Scolari and others, this is a special look back at Brazil's FIFA World Cup history and what to expect from the hosts in Group A against Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon.

Did you like the way Fifa showed the interviews with our players and coach, as well as Brazil's history? Why?

5) The Economist article: Footbal: Beautiful game, dirty business (Jun 7th, 2014) 

      Football is a great sport, but it could be so much better if it were run honestly.

After you read the article below, you'll work on the vocabulary exercise by matching the words in bold extracted from the passage with their corresponding meaning on the right.

Question: Do you agree with the criticism proposed in the article? And the solutions brought up?