Mini-book 1
(PDF 120 KB)
Mini-book 2
(PDF 145 KB)
Mini-book 3
(PDF 111 KB)
Mini-book 4
(PDF 119 KB)
Mini-book 5
(PDF 87 KB)
Mini-book 6
(PDF 123 KB)
Mini-book 7
(PDF 130 KB)
Mini-book 8
(PDF 93 KB)
How to make your mini-book

World Cup Wordsearch
(PDF 47 KB)

The teams in 5 languages
(MS Word 62 KB)

The teams' flags
(MS Publisher 278 KB)
The teams' flags (outline versions)
(MS Publisher 766 KB)

Below is the presentation which I gave at the Atlas conference "Ready, set, go global !" on 7th July 2009 at St James Park.

The presentation and accompanying audio last 24 minutes.

Resources for the 2010 World Cup will follow nearer the time.

If you make any resources that you would like to share, please email them.

In the meantime, I hope you are inspired by the ideas in the presentation and by the resources that we produced for the 2006 tournament and which you can find below.

"Making the most of the World Cup" was held at the Sandhill Centre on February 27th 2006. The event was hosted by Sunderland Local Authority on behalf of ATLAS. It catered for teachers of Key Stages 2 and 3, and aimed to be a practical session, with plenty of ideas, facts and figures to take away and use in the classroom.

We were pleased to welcome to the event Ged Fitzgerald, the Chief Executive of Sunderland City Council and Chair of the regional European Strategy Group, who kindly agreed to offer his perspectives on the International Dimension.

The involvement in the World Cup of teams from all over the world and our pupils’ love of everything to do with football make it an ideal opportunity to bring an international dimension into the classroom.

Feel free to use the following resources with your classes as they are, or use them to inspire you to create your own activities. See them as a stimulus, a springboard, a launch-pad, a catalyst for your own international work.

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