Make the most of this year’s World Cup with these fun and engaging football focused creative writing resources, based around and inspired by the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada!
25 slides jam packed with content, this lesson is sure to get your students excited about this major sporting event, whilst helping them improve their creative writing skills. Complete with a printable worksheet, this lesson has the following structure:
Starter - Quiz (general knowledge/picture round/English based World Cup Questions) with peer-assessed answer slides
Differentiated lesson aims with a big question
Background and context to the World Cup
Using sensory description to envisage a stadium
Video stimulus of England’s trip to the Euro 2024 final to generate ideas about thoughts and feelings of being in that moment
Image based stimulus for independent creative writing task
Exemplars of good and bad responses for students to evaluate
Self-assessment activity in which students edit and improve their own work based on the exemplars
The lesson has lots of differentiation opportunities with scaffolding and stretch and challenge opportunities throughout; full teacher notes are provided underneath the slides to ensure that the lesson is ‘ready to roll’ with no adaptation required.
This lesson is recommended for students from year 6 up to year 10 - so top of Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and the bottom of Key Stage 4.
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Amazing Resource- this was so helpful and my class loved it! My Head of Department and English Teacher were also super impressed! A must purchased for anyone!
Excellent resource and easy to use. Engaged my class for the upcoming World Cup.
Absolutely fantastic resource! Really well-put-together. Extremely engaging and easy to follow and kept the students really engaged throughout. Another great resource from Mr Asante.
This was a fantastic resource and extremely engaging for students, especially so close to the 2026 World Cup. The lessons were well-structured, easy to follow, and linked perfectly to English skills while still keeping the excitement of football involved. The activities were creative, relevant, and really helped to motivate students to participate. A brilliant resource that saved a lot of preparation time and created great discussions in class. Highly recommended!
great resource! Saved me a bit of time
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