Soccer's Short-Lived Super League

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

In this lesson featuring content from The Washington Post, students learn about how plans for Europe's most popular soccer teams to come together and create a "super league" have been canceled. Students discuss related vocabulary and the role of competition in their lives. This lesson includes a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading

Vocabulary

renegade
backlash
condemnation
dissent
dormant
on behalf of
titan
lucrative
framework
disruption
reap
ramification
A spinning paper plane