Turn your classroom into a busy newsroom with this collaborative football investigation where students become sports journalists working for rival newspapers. Using reading, speaking, teamwork, and logical deduction, they must gather evidence from a range of news sources to reconstruct an international football tournament, identify the winning country, and discover the Golden Boot and Golden Glove winners before their rivals.
The resource includes 16 printable News Source cards, tournament brackets, Reporter's Notes sheets, Team Reference Sheets, football vocabulary support, teacher guidance, and both A2 and B1 student instructions. No group begins with enough information to solve the investigation alone, so students must question one another, compare evidence, eliminate possibilities, and piece together the complete tournament using logical deduction.
As learners move around the classroom collecting clues from newspaper reports, interviews, live commentary, and fan forum posts, they develop reading comprehension, speaking confidence, communication, inference, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving. Every conclusion must be supported by evidence rather than guesswork, creating genuine communication throughout the activity.
Once the investigation is complete, students use the evidence they have gathered to write their own newspaper report, providing a meaningful follow up writing task that reinforces the vocabulary and information from the investigation.
This resource is also part of our Sports | EFL Resource Pack, which is available to download here.
Perfect For:
- TEFL, ESL, EAL and EFL classrooms
- Logic puzzles, reading and speaking activities
- Football vocabulary and critical thinking
- Pair work, group work and collaborative learning
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