The final section of the pack deals with the history of the game of football and football boots plus some information on Black, Asian and women footballers within the British game.

The information could be printed out or students could be directed to the website if they would like to find out more.

If you would like to use the section in a more structured way within English/Literacy lessons, some suggestions are included below.

What would the class like to find out about the history of football or about Black, Asian and women players? Write down any questions then divide the class into teams to read the information and report back.

Working in groups, devise a quiz based on the facts within one or more of the handouts.  Present the quiz to another group, or hold a whole class “Question of Sport” quiz with different teams, using the IWB to include picture questions.

Devise a football board game – this could include question cards, board pieces in the form of footballers mentioned in the handouts etc.

Create a football crossword with clues and answers taken from the handouts.

Individual students or groups chose a player and research him/her in more detail using the Internet. Findings are presented to the class as:

       power point presentations

       a dramatisation including dialogue

       still images and narrative

Write notes either from reading or when listening to the information. Students use these to write a shortened account in their own words.

Write or perform an interview with one of the players featured in the handouts.

Write a first person account of an event featured in the handouts, for example Viv Anderson being the first black footballer to represent England in a full international.

Write a newspaper report of the event.

If one of these events were presented as a play script, what would the story be? Students write dialogue and stage directions for a key moment.

Students work in pairs or groups to create a Collage, which says something about the history of Black and Asian footballers. They begin by Googling players and finding photographs of them.

Print these out and add individual words or small snippets of information either handwritten or experiment with Word Art.

Or create a collage on a programme such as Photoshop or Gimp.

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