Football Drama. Step into Alex’s boots and write an angry email to your chairman demanding a transfer then attend a Press Conference to tell the world! Roll a dice to discover how angry you are. Plan and write an angry email to the chairperson demanding a transfer Deliver the email at a Press Conference to your class. Answer questions from the media (your class and teacher) For larger groups split the class into Player, Media, Agents, Chairperson. Each will have their own motivation and agenda. Skills targeted. Planning. Writing to persuade. Oracy and literacy Skills. Speech and Language. Building confidence with public speaking. Use of statistics. The aim of this lesson is to encourage students to build literacy and oracy skills in a fun and non-pressurised way. Using the dice to gauge how angry they are takes away the pressure of choice and is particularly good for engaging avoidant students and students with SEN needs. This lesson can be paired with The Football Transfer Drama Storytelling game.

Practice literacy and oracy skills with this fun football storytelling game. Improve basic maths skills, speech and language and build confidence. This game has been designed with ESOL / SEN students in mind and can be played 1 to 1 and in small groups. With small groups players can be on the same team or they can play against each other. Each player gets a turn and on their turn they get to decide what they want to do - they can do absolutely anything their imagination allows as long as the dice roll allows them to do so. Even if that’s standing in place doing a backflip for no good reason. Building language skills, promoting literacy and oracy in a non-pressurised way. Students learn about basic maths skills and probability in a fun way. This resource is excellent for students who love football but are low in confidence when speaking. This can be used alongside the Football Transfer Drama resource. If your student/s enjoy the game they can play it again and again. Just change the starting scenario. Do they want to set up 5aside storytelling league in the class?