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What’s your team?

Activity overviewThis activity begins by students watching the Funky Footy video clip found in the Resources section of the AFL CD-ROM. Students create a class graph to see which AFL team is the most popular. If students have little experience of AFL football teams or do not currently support a team, then allow time for a team to be selected. Students practise using the language other than English being studied while playing a ball passing game, asking classmates their favourite team. Using this language, students carry out a survey with their classmates. Finally, students can apply this knowledge to writing a sentence and illustrating it to create a class book about their favourite Australian football teams.

TimerequiredApproximately 100 minutes

Materials

Session1• Worksheet

• Club logo flashcards – write team names in the Language other than English and add logo images (available on Resources section of AFL CD-ROM)

• Coloured pencils

• Funky Footy video clip from the Resources section of the AFL CD-ROM

• Laptop and projector

• AFL junior football such as the NAB AFL Auskick football

Session2• Club logo flashcards – logo images available in Resources section

of AFL CD-ROM

• Blank paper for page in class book (or teachers may prefer to prepare a worksheet for students to trace and/or fill the gap to suit students’ writing ability)

• Coloured pencils

Key Learning AreaLanguages Other Than English

Year levelsPrep to Year 2

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Activity steps

Session11. Play the Funky Footy video clip found in the Resources section of the

AFL CD-ROM to set the scene.

2. Introduce the pronunciation of AFL team names in the Language other than English using the team logo flashcards.

3. Place the flashcards along the whiteboard. Students line up behind their team logo to create a graph showing the most popular team in the class.

4. Write some simple sentences about the graph, describing the class’s favourite and least favourite football teams.

5. As a class, look at the ‘people graph’ and count how many students are in each column. Model the question and answer format for the sentence below in the Language other than English.

Question: ‘What team do you like?’

Answer: ‘I like…’

6. With the whole class standing in a circle, one student holds a football and asks a classmate their favourite Australian football team. They then pass the football to the classmate who catches the ball and answers the question. This student then asks the question of another student and passes the football again, continuing until all students have asked and responded to the question.

7. Using the same question and answer format, students then survey eight classmates on their favourite football teams and record the responses on the worksheet grid provided.

8. Students can share the results of their graphs orally with the whole class, using the sentences modelled in the ‘people graph’ activity.

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Session21. Do a quick review from the previous session – ask students to stand up when

you show the flashcard of their favourite Australian football team.

2. Place the flashcards on the board with team names written in the Language other than English as a model for students to use in their own writing.

3. Write the following sentence on the board in the Language other than English.

‘My favourite Australian football team is…’

‘(Friend’s name)’s favourite Australian football team is…’

4. Students then write the above sentences and illustrate it to create a page for the class book about their favourite Australian football teams.

5. Collate all students’ pages and create a class book. Read the book as a class – depending on student level, either with students reading their own page, the whole class reading it together or the teacher reading all pages.

6. Leave the class book on the classroom bookshelf for students to refer to later.

7. Share the class book with another class in the school who are learning the same Language other than English.

Assessment ideas• Reading – students can read their own page in the class book to the class to

demonstrate their reading skills.

• Writing – observe students’ skills in writing their page for the class book on their favourite Australian football team.

• Speaking – record students’ participation in the handball game in Session 1.

• Listening – observe students’ ability to record the responses when surveying classmates about their favourite football team in Session 1.

• Intercultural knowledge – observe students’ participation in the extension task, particularly their knowledge and awareness about countries where the target language is spoken.

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Optional extensionIntercultural Focus:

• Explain to students that AFL began in Australia but it is now becoming very popular around the world.

• Ask students if they know whether AFL is played in countries where the Language other than English they are studying is spoken.

• Refer to the website below to learn about the international AFL competition which began in Melbourne in 2002. http://www.afl.com.au/Development/InternationalCup/InternationalCup/tabid/10241/Default.aspx

• Using the website, investigate as a class which countries currently have teams involved in the International AFL competition. Please note that because the team names are Australian English names, they actually don’t translate to other languages (except for Japanese, when they are written in script). All pronunciations are the same as in Australian English. http://www.afl.com.au/Portals/0/afl_docs/2007_International_Census_Sheet_240807.pdf

• Use a large world map and locate these countries. Then talk about which languages are spoken in these countries and have students discuss what might happen on the field if players don’t share a common language.

• Refer to football as Australian football. Show the poster showing the word ‘football’ written in some of the languages spoken by players in the International Cup (German, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese and English). Add any other languages students know.

• Brainstorm a list of words which players may need to know to help them communicate with players from countries where the Language other than English is spoken. For example, in the game between New Zealand and Japan, what words should the players from New Zealand learn to be able to communicate with the players from Japan?

Eg (Australian)Football フットボール futtobooru

Kick ック kikku

Goal ール gooru

Congratulations めでとう omedetoo

• Students can then create picture flashcards for these words to display in the classroom.

• Older students can copy a word from the brainstorm list on the board and illustrate it. The teacher may need to write the words for younger students and they can then draw a picture to create the flashcard.

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Worksheet 1: Favourite Australian Football Team Survey

Name: ______________________________________________________________________

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