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Bridge : english based education programme for top level football sportmen and women as well as football sport officer

1. Introduction

So To assure a batter understanding of sport related job. Sportpreneurship Network operates intensive English and further educational programs which would provide not only learning opportunities for players, coaches, instructors, but also for referees, players’ agents, team managers, team’s secretary general, football journalist as well as marketing & communication experts.

In addition to their theoretical and practical content the English course are built on life skill and the social dimension of football at the core of youngsters development in particular .thanks to its dedicated and professional expansion of the English program

Sportpreneurship academy is building a dynamic network enabling a more efficient exchange in formation between teachers or instructors and learners or participants.

In so doing sportpreneurship network seeks to improve cooperation between the world football families and promote the timely dissemination of knowledge acquired using sport movement adequate language skills and tools.

In this connection, let’s all agree that good relationship between sportpreneurship academy and sport family movers are of a vital importance so thanks to that cooperation we are convinced that we can further develop football and remain true to its values.

2. Our English-based education programs

For this academic year 2011 sportpreneurship network is honored to provide you with his new football related English programs cut for sportsmen and women capacity building sake .hence our focus on the following three programs namely:

Tycoon I; ii and iii dedicated to players of these categories’ ( u20, u17, u15, u13) the tycoon iii program is run in English so that players could reach the fluency in the speech before leaving for a professional carrier when that occurs

Discovery is also a sportpreneurship Network 3 level English program dedicated to football-related domains. Here discovery 1 & 2 serve as common background for all the football-related profession such as coaching (scout, goalkeeping, and fitness), player’s agent, football journalist, football photographer, referees, psychologist, secretary general, football media officer, team manager, football instructor and Bursar, football marketing football medicine

But through Discovery lll we invite all the learners to focus on their vocational football area .Most important thing is that the courses are all run in English .for example a referee is taught a refereeing course in English while a chief coach is taught a coaching course in English.

Then comes our optional program called: silver

Silver is our unique optional program intended for discovery iii graduated learners at Sport Consultant or football-related domains experts with a mastery of English who are willing to major in another football-related domain. Here again the course is run in English.

For example let’s take the case of a referee who succeeded the discovery lll refereeing course in English .he can register for a silver journalist English program

If he want to improve his knowledge in the domain of journalism of football

Now it seems important to mention that at the end of each educational programs sportpreneurship academy will award a degree to the most successful students if only they succeed at the final exam meant for them, at the end of each program. But their may well be some assessment test or quizzes during the formation.

The gold program: this is the main but selective program we operate at sportpreneurship academy. it’s devoted to the training of football consultant .theses courses are run by football domains experts who masters English language .the course is intended for student who have graduated the silver degree in ten domain of football at sportpreneurship academy .

The successful consultants formed are likely to integrate the football consultant big and great family either as football ambassadors or representatives in the world

3.teaching methodology: THE COMPETENCE – BASED TRAINING LESSON

Competence-Based Training is a new teaching methodology as far as the Ivorian Education System is concerned. It originated in Canada. It was introduced into Elementary and Vocational Secondary Schools. It has been put into practice by Senegal and the Republic of Benin for quite a long time. The main focus is on competency.

Competence-Based Training puts particular emphasis on what the learner needs for his development, promotion and success.

In the learning process four basic skills are particularly emphasized. They are: speaking, writing, listening and reading.

It consists of four basic stages:

A. Introductory phase

The introductory phase includes three steps:

1°) Warm-up

The teacher deal with greetings, singing, date writing and asking questions about the weather.

The length of time devoted to warm-up is three minutes.

2°) Revision

The second step is a quick review of the previous lesson. (3mns)

3°) Lead-in exercise

The lead-in exercise is a transition between the previous lesson and the new one.

B. IN PUT PHASE

This stage is concerned with the teaching of new vocabulary items and new grammatical structures.

C. APPLICATION / ACTIVATION PHASE

The student puts into practice the vocabulary items and the grammatical structures he has learnt during the IN-PUT phase.

One or more exercises will allow the learners to put into practice one or several aspect of what he is learning.

E. INTEGRATION PHASE

The pupil is given the opportunity to re-use the items he has learnt during the lesson to solve a problem of current interest.

This exercise appears at the end of every unit. It gives the pupil the opportunity to solve a problem by using all the knowledge he has acquired throughout a whole unit.

IV. SYLLABUS ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING

The Curriculum organization and planning includes the following items: Period of time, subject-related competences (skills), Enabling skills, Unit and themes, 4 illustrative passages related to each theme, Evaluations about problem-solving tasks, Remedial work, written tests and the number of hours devoted to each activity.

SPEAKING, WRITING, LISTENING AND READING

These four skills make up the pillars of the Competence-Based Training.

The curriculum covers two months from February to the end of March.

* First two weeks of February are devoted to Speaking.

The learners should be able to communicate orally in, English with suitable Vocabulary and correct grammar.

*the two second weeks of February are devoted to writing. The pupils are expected to communicate through short essays by using suitable vocabulary items and correct grammar.

* The first two weeks of March are devoted to listening.

The pupils should be able to understand the meaning of an oral message, a conversation or a recorded dialogue.

They must be able to recognize and identify the sounds of words.

* The two last weeks of March are devoted to reading.

The pupils should be able to recognize and identify the words of a text and the relationships between them in order to grasp the meaning. The students must understand the main idea of the text and some detailed information from the passage.

UNITS, THEMES AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES

There are 8 Units for the capacity building period

There are 8 themes. Each theme comprises 4 illustrative passages. There are 32 illustrative passages for the same period.

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	SCOPE AND SEQUENCE OF THE FIRST LEVEL OF THE FOOTBALL ORIENTED ENGLISH COURSES

Compétence disciplinaire : speaking (expression orale)

Compétence de base 1 : échanger des informations oralement

Savoir : identifier des sons de la langue anglaise les structures lexicales et grammaticales pour échanger des informations, des civilités, se présenter, nommer les objets oralement les premiers jours de classe

UNIT ONE: MY FIRST ENGLISH CLASS

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1: good morning class	Greetings, introducing yourself	Present simple of to be	Alphabet and greetings
Lesson 2: in the classroom	Understanding lesson directions Spelling first and last name	Showing things this is /what is	Classroom, objects and directions
Lesson 3: numbers and sport garments	Asking for an addresse /phone number /zip code Identifying sport garments	Pronouns/possessive adjectives There is /there are	Numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6-10/10-20 Name of sport garments
Lesson 4: around the clock	Reading an analogue clock Discussing daily activities	Present continous	Ordinary numbers Time of the day /daily activities verbs
Application and Integration exercises

COMPETENCE DE BASE 2:Utiliser un langage correct pour communiquer oralement

Savoir2 : identifier des sons de la langue anglaise les structures lexicales et grammaticales pour échanger des informations sur l’environnement du travail et les métiers du football oralement

UNIT TWO: PLACES TO GO

Lessons	Language function	Grammar	vocabulary
Lesson 1 :the calendar	Reading the calendar	Question and short answers with to be	Day of the week/month of the year
Lesson 2 :buildings	Asking and giving answer to questions about time /addresses	What are you? I’m………………..	Names of the places
Lesson 3 : at the training camp	Showing the name of things at the training camp	How are you ? I’m………………	Name of things at the training camp
Lesson 4 : Football related jobs	Identifying daily activities and football related jobs	Personal pronouns	Name of some football relate djobs
Application and Intégration exercices

COMPETENCE DISCIPLINAIRE 2: WRITING (expression ecrite)

Compétence de base 3 : échanger des informations par écrit

Savoir : identifier des sons de la langue anglaise les structures lexicales et grammaticales pour échanger des informations portant sur le jeu et la compétition, les résultats sportifs par écrit

UNIT THREE : GAME AND COMPETITIONS

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1 :the olympique Game	Talking about sport	Gerund used as nouns	Vocabulary related to sports and games
Lesson 2 : competing and comparing	Making comparisons	Regular and irregular comparatives and superlatives	Vocabulary related to completion
Lesson 3 :sport results	Talking about sport results	Regular and irregular comparatives And superlatives	Vocabulary related to sport results
Lesson 4 :football countries and nationalities	Introducing country member of caf and fifa Completing forms about residences and country of origine	Asking and answering question about nationality and home country	Countries and nationalities
Application and integration exercises

Compétence de base 4 : Utiliser un langage correct pour s’exprimer a l’écrit

Savoir : utiliser un langage correct pour s’exprimer à l’écrit sur des sujets relatifs à la sante et la nourriture en générale et sur le corps humain en particulier

UNIT FOUR : HEALTH AND FOOD

Lessons	Language functions	Grammar	Vocabulary
Lesson 1 : the body	Knowing the differents part of the body	Plurals forms of the body parts	Names of the body parts
Lesson 2: what do you eat and drink?	Ordering food in a restaurant	Commands using some /any	Names of foods and drink
Lesson 3: doctors and medecine	Stating illness	Questions and short answers with have/ to have the present simple	Ackes and pains Medical check up common ailments and over the counter medicine
Lesson 4: what do you like ?	Identifying the jobs of the restaurants Expressing likes and dislikes	Present simple of to like/to want	Name of restaurant workers
APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION EXERCISES

Compétences disciplinaire 3 :listening

Compétence de base 5: RECONNAITRE LES SONS DES MOTS ET LA STRUCTURE D’UN ENONCE ORALE

Savoir : reconnaitre les sons des mots et la structure d’un énoncé orale sur les routines dans une école de football

UNIT 5 : FOOTBALL SCHOOL ROUTINE

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1 ;the football school subject	Identifying football school subject Expressing possibilities	Do in questions and statement Can/can’t	Vocabulary related to football academy subjects
Lesson 2;the football school facilities	Talking about the football school facilities	How long?..................................... Preposition of location	Name of the facilities of the football school Expression of locations
Lesson 3:the football school rules	Describing football school rules	Must /mustn’t	Some key rules of the academy
Lesson 4;the football school bus	Do a time table /planning	The present simple	Road signs Means of transport
Application and integration exercises

Compétence de base 6 : Démontrer sa compréhension d’un message oral

Savoir : démontrer sa compréhension d’un énoncé oral relatif aux qualités spécifiques essentielles d’un footballeur

UNIT 6 : S.P.I.T

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
lesson 1 : speed in football	Evaluating players speed	Supperlatives	Vocabulary related to speed
Leson 2 :physical condition	Expressing purpose	In order to So as to	Vocabulary related to condition
Lesson 3 : intelligence in footballeurs	Expressing habit	To be used to	Vocabulary related to cognitive skill in players
Lessons 4 : technique in footballer	Introducing some technical moves	Adevrbs of sequencies	Technical related vocabulry
Application and intégration exorcises

Competence disciplinaire :writing

Competence de base 7 : Reconnaitre les mots d’un texte et les relations entre les mots pour les comprendre

Savoir 7 : reconnaitre les mots d’un texte portant sur les célébrations au football et les relations entre les mots pour les comprendre.

UNIT 7 : FOOTBALL AWARD CELEBRATIONS

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FONCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Llesson 1:I want to be a champion	Asking someone to do something	He wants me to …………………………….	Key words related to competitions
Lesson 2:we ‘ve won the cup	Expressing opinions Present perfect	Present perfect	Words on rejoicing
Lesson 3: the fifa golden shoes	Comparing /superlative of long adjectives Expressing the past	He’s the most talented boy The past simple	Prize giving ocabulary
Lesson 4: recreation and weather	Leading a weather report	Future tense	Key words about weather and recreation
Application and integration exercises

COMPETENCE DE BASE 8: Identifier l’idée principale et les informations détaillées d’un texte

Savoir : identifier l’idée principale et les informations détaillées d’un texte portant sur les media du football

UNIT 8 : FOOTBALL MEDIA

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson1 : the programmes	To accustom players to media	To use to	Media key words
Lesson 2 : the audience	Expresing feeling	I agree/i disagree	Feeling related words
Lesson 3 :the football related business and people	Introducing new jobs in football	What do you expect someone to do?	Name of football related jobs
Lesson 4 : the football TV channel	Shape an opinion to succeed in the interview	Reported speech	Vocabulary related to tv channel
APPLICATION AND INTEGRATION EXERCISES

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE OF THE SECOND LEVEL OF THE FOOTBALL ORIENTED ENGLISH COURSES

Compétence disciplinaire 1 : speaking

Compétence de base 1 : échanger des informations oralement

Savoir 1 : identifier les sons de la langue anglaise, les structures lexicales, les structures grammaticales pour échanger des informations oralement relatives au premier cours d’anglais à l’académie de football, les couleurs et la notion de famille.

UNIT 1: first English class remembrance

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1: I met my teacher	Introducing yourself	To be at present simple	Revision of things names in the classroom/as well as directions
Lesson 2: I can speak better English now	Ability to speak fluently	Phonetics and phonology	The phonetic symbols
Lesson 3:the colors	Identifying colors	Referential it and they	Name of colors
Lesson 4: the family	Identifying and naming member of the family	Who’s………………………………….. ?	Name of the family members
Application and integration exercises

COMPETENCE DE BASE 2:Utiliser un langage correct pour communiquer oralement

Savoir2 : utiliser correctement les structures lexicales et grammaticales pour échanger des informations oralement sur l’hébergement, la nourriture, le diner et les activités d’une équipe de football qui est en voyage

UNIT TWO: travelling soccer team

Lessons	Language function	Grammar	vocabulary
Lesson 1 : talking about accommodations	Expressing personal taste and desires	Present simple verbs form want /need/like/hate+ infinitive	Vocabulary related to house and accommodation
Lesson 2 talking about food	Identifying the right food and the right drink for a travelling soccer team	Past continuous	Vocabulary related to food
Lesson 3 : talking about the diner	Identifying furniture in an hotel	That is /those are/here are	Vocabulary related to diner
Lesson 4 : talking about founiture	Ability to talk about a series of events	Logical adverbs	Vocabulary related to fourniture
Application and integration exercises

COMPETENCE DISCIPLINAIRE 2: WRITING (expression écrite)

Compétence de base 3 : échanger des informations par écrit

Savoir : identifier des sons de la langue anglaise les structures lexicales et grammaticales pour échanger des informations a l’écrit sur le coaching d’un match ou d’une séance d’entrainement d’une équipe de football

UNIT THREE: soccer coaching

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1 :the work of the coach + an illustrative text	Expressing future plan	To be going to /future tense with will	Vocabulary related to the work of the coach
Lesson 2 : the coaching of the training session +an illustrative text	Describing completed event in the past	simple past	Useful expression for the coaching of the training session
Lesson 3 :the coaching team + an illustrative text	Story telling	Irregular verbs study	The coaching team members
Lesson 4 : coaching young players + an illustrative text	Sequencing events	Linking words and expressions	Vocabulary related to the coach educator dual work
Application and integration exercises

Compétence de base 4 : Utiliser un langage correct pour s’exprimer a l’écrit

Savoir : utiliser un langage correct pour communiquer sur le travail technico tactique du football par écrit

UNIT FOUR: technico –tactical work in football

Lessons	Language functions	Grammar	Vocabulary
Lesson 1 : basic technical skills + an illustrative text	Expressing an action you undergo	Passive/active voice	Vocabulary on the basic skills
Lesson 2: the dual + an illustrative text	Describing daily activities	to make /to do	Vocabulary related to the dual
Lesson 3: combined technical-tactical preparation + an illustrative text	Expressing intensity of some actions	Quantifiers	Vocabulary related to the combined technico-tactical preparation
Lesson 4: the pressing +an illustrative text	Expressing the manner	Adverbs of manner	Key words related to the pressing
Application and integration exercises

Compétences disciplinaire 3 : listening

Compétence de base 5: RECONNAITRE LES SONS DES MOTS ET LA STRUCTURE D’UN ENONCE ORALE

Savoir : reconnaitre les sons des mots et la structure d’un énoncé orale portant sur le style de jeu ou système de jeu d’une équipe de football

UNIT 5 : playing style

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1 ;the playing system +an illustrative text	Stating needs and obligations	Verb of necessity must /have to	Playing style key words
Lesson 2; the tactical strategies +an illustrative text	Making suggestions	Modal auxiliaries	Vocabulary related to tactical strategies
Lesson 3: the training of the team +an illustrative text	Requesting services	Could you please ………?	Useful words for training
Lesson : the players position by position + an illustrative text	Offering help	Would you like to ……? May I help you?	Naming the profile
Application and integration exercises

Compétence de base 6 : Démontrer sa compréhension d’un message oral

Savoir : démontrer sa compréhension d’un énoncé oral relatif a l’aspect psychologique du football

UNIT 6 : mentale care

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
lesson 1 : mentale training + an illustrative text	Expressing event whose drawbacks is evidenced	Présent perfect	Vocabulary related to mental training
Leson 2 : the cognitive skills +an illustrative text	Expressing on going event whose drawbacks is evidenced	Present perfect progressive	Cognitive skill Key words
Lesson 3 : the training of cognitive skills +an illustrative text	Talking about completed action which has no consequence on the present time	Past perfect	Vocabulary linked to the training of cognitive skills
Lessons 4 : the player’s task + an illustrative text	Talking about a past action just completed which started few moment before	Past perfect progressive	Useful words on Players task
Application and integration exercises

Compétence disciplinaire 4 : writing

Compétence de base 7 : Reconnaitre les mots d’un texte et les relations entre les mots pour les comprendre

Savoir 7 : reconnaitre les mots d’un texte portant sur la préparation physique et les relations entre les mots pour mieux comprendre l’art de la préparation physique des footballeurs

UNIT 7 : soccer conditionning

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FONCTIONS	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson 1: the performance capacities of a footballer +an illustrative text	Expressing an ability	Revision Can /can’t	Key words the performance capacities
Lesson 2:the endurance qualities +an illustrative text	Providing evidence for an argument	Indefinite pronouns Someone/anyone/everyone	Vocabulary related to endurance skills
Lesson 3: evaluating the intensity of training + an illustrative text	Expressing your opinion	Object pronouns	Words related to intensity assment
Lesson 4: the coordination skills + an illustrative text	Inquiring about a process	Asking question with wh pronouns	Key words about coordination skills
Application and integration exercises

COMPETENCE DE BASE 8: Identifier l’idée principale et les informations détaillées d’un texte

Savoir : identifier l’idée principale et les informations détaillées d’un texte portant sur la formation et la préparation des gardiens de but du football

UNIT 8 : goalkeeping

LESSONS	LANGUAGE FUNCTION	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY
Lesson1 : technical aspect + an illustrative text	Providing cause and effect in the speech	If clauses	Key words related to goalkeepers technical skills
Lesson 2 : tactical aspect + an illustrative text	Showing correcness	Coordination conjunctions	Vocabulary about the tactical work of the goalkeeper
Lesson 3 : the role of the goalkeeping coach +an illustrative text	Localization and situation	The preposition	Words about the goalkeeper coach work
Lesson 4 : the top flight goalkeeper training session	the complex sentence building	The propositions subordonnées Lieu Cause Temps but	Words about the training session
Application and integration exercises

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE OF THE THIRD LEVEL OF THE FOOTBALL ORIENTED ENGLISH COURSES

PERIODE : 1ere semaine – volume horaires : 5h en raison d’une heure /jour

Central topic: EDUCATION

TEXTE FILE 1: BETTER COACHES LEADS TO BETTER PLAYERS

SAVOIR: s’exprimer couramment et comprendre aisément les énoncés tant écrit qu’oraux sur l’apport de l’éducation dans le football