The core of the material explores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically focusing on the rights to life, to seek asylum from persecution, and to enjoy rest and leisure. To make these abstract concepts tangible for young learners, the pack features real-life case studies of professional footballers and community clubs with refugee backgrounds.
Alongside these inspiring stories, the resource provides a series of reflective discussion prompts and structured curriculum activities ranging from creative drama and geography mapping to research-based journalism projects.
For an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, this resource is a highly effective asset for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), allowing students to develop authentic language skills while engaging with a significant global topic. Teachers can utilize the biographical texts for jigsaw reading tasks, where students read different profiles and practice their speaking and listening skills by summarizing their assigned player's life history to their peers. The topic introduces a rich set of vocabulary related to migration, community integration, and emotional resilience. The built-in discussion questions, which ask students to imagine what they would pack if they had to suddenly leave home, serve as an excellent communicative tool to practice conditional structures and build empathy in a highly interactive way. The project-based prompts can be adapted into creative writing assessments, such as formatting a short newspaper report or designing a school welcome poster, which encourages students to synthesize new vocabulary into meaningful, real-world output.
https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/HRE20Football20welcomes202022.pdf
