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• The manager is protesting / the fans arecomplaining.

• The fans are angry / furious.

• It was a good / fair decision.• It was a bad / an unfair decision.• The ref made some good / bad decisions.

Describing fouls

1. to kick2. to trip3. to stamp on4. to charge into / barge5. to push / shove6. to hit7. to hold someone back / puli someone's shirt8. to push someone off the ball9. to touch / handie the ball (= hand ball>

Extra vocabulary: Referee's actions

• to book a player• to show a player a yellow / red card• to send someone off

Players

• to foul someone / to commit a foul• the player was booked• the player was shown a yellow / red card

• the player was sent off• to be a 'dirty' player

Football phrases: Manager and fans

Level:In class:

Beginner to advanced.Put students into small groups. Show themone of the mini flashcards, then get them tothink of other examples of bad behaviour orcheating in football. Elicit / Present the wordsin English and use the flashcards to drill thewords. How many of the fouls did your studentsalready know?

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Elementary to advanced.Students use the cards to make a list of football rules. Ask them what you must /mustn't do or are not allowed to do / have to do.

Examples:You mustn't puli another player's shirt.You must play with 11 men.You must wear football boots.You mustn't touch the ball.

Put students into pairs and give them these other places and situations. Givethem two minutes to think of as many rules for each one as they can.

1. in class2. driving on the street3. at the swimming pool4. on a plane / at an airport5. in an exam6. in a game of basketball

f) Grammar: Fooi:ball rulesLevel:In class:

Extension:

Elementary to advanced.Students write a new rule for football that they would like to introduce.Depending on their level, students should use one or ali of the following:can / can't; must / mustn't; allowed to / not allowed to.

Examples:• Players can't argue with the referee.• Players must shake hands with each other after the game.• Players must give some of their salary to charity.• Players are allowed to take off their shirts when they celebrate.

Ask students to think of a new rule they would like to introduce for these places:

1.at school/in class2. on a bus / train3. in a cinema4. in a supermarket5. on the Internet

6) Writing: Mew rulesLevel:In class:

Extension:

e Speaking: ConsequencesLevel:Preparation:In class:

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Intermediate.This game revises past tenses. Bring in some coins.Put students into pairs. Place the mini flashcards face down and give each paira coin. Tell students that one side of the coin is 'just before' and the other sideis 'j ust after'.

Student A flips the coin. Student B turns over a card. They must make a sentencesaying what happened just befo re or just after the action on the card.

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Exempl«:Student A: [f/ips coin which shows 'just beforej Just before.Student B: [tums over card 7] The striker was running into the box - he was

close to the goa/ so the defender pulled his shirt.Student A: [f/ips coin which shows 'just afterj Just after.Student B: [tums over card 1] The referee didn't see the fou/. The striker and the

fans were furious.

o Writing and speaking: Red card rules +In class:

This can be used at any level.The cards used by the referee can be used as a rules / rewards system for yourclass. You will need to make red and yellow cards for this. You can use thetemplates from Unit 43.Use the red / yellow cards to show students different types of grammatical orwritten error. Use the yellow cards for content errors or improvements and usethe red cards to show an unacceptable howler - an easy mistake that they shouldknow for their level. You could write their errors on red / yellow cards and placethem on the board for the class to correct as a group. If they can correct theerror, remove it from the card.Use this for younger learners. Show your students the red and yellow cards.Explain to your students that, like in football, the yellow card is a warning cardand a red card is a consequence card. Decide and clarify what a red card offenceis - it could be for not handing in homework, it could be swearing, it could befor being late. Students get a yellow card as a warning and their name iswritten on the card. For a serious or repeated offence you move them to thered card. This means the consequence will be a discussion with the head teacher/ parents (in accordance with your school behaviour policy).

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Variation:

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