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Football links

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Football puzzle

Play the official Germany picture puzzle!

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/e/puzzle.html

Jokes about football

What's the chilliest ground in the premiership?

Cold Trafford!

This and other equally bad jokes!

http://www.kidsjokes.co.uk/jokes/sports/index.html

Kick into Reading

Specially trained players are posted into libraries where they talk about their love of books, reading and telling stories.

www.literacytrust.org.uk/Football/RTGProjects/kir.html

Learn English through football

Play games about football and other sports that help you practise your English, and others just for fun. Listen to a song and read trivia and funny quotes about sport.

www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-sport-fun-and-games-homepage.htm

Premier League Reading Stars

A partnership between the National Literacy Trust, the premier League and the Football Foundation.

www.literacytrust.org.uk/Football/RTGProjects/plrc.html

Reading Champions

A project which harnesses the motivating power of reading role models to inspire other men and boys to take up the reading habit.

www.literacytrust.org.uk/campaign/champions.html

Reading Is Fundamental

An initiative that helps children and young people (aged 0 to 19) to realise their potential by motivating them to read.

www.literacytrust.org.uk/rif/index.htm

Reading The Game

Reading The Game is an initiative of the National Literacy Trust which works with professional football to promote literacy and to raise reading motivation for all ages.

www.literacytrust.org.uk/Football/index.html

World Cup

Meet the teams on their way to Germany!

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Voyage

This British-German youth portal has a football game, a quiz and a list of useful German words related to football

www.the-voyage.com/kids_new/?location_id=234