Learn English Through Football

It’s the fourth podcast of the season and this weekend sees domestic leagues in Europe taking a break as World Cup qualifiers start. We take a look at some language from the big games from the Premier League last week including a review of some of the words and phrases from the transfer window. We also look back at some of the good, the bad and the ugly from this week’s football and Damon and Damian discuss the ‘languagecaster derby’, while we also feature some of the big games from those World Cup qualifiers in our predictions battle – including England against Slovakia and Brazil versus Colombia. You can check out the transcript for the show in the post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
2016-17 Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2018 World Cup Qualifiers in Europe

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Transcript of the show
DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football podcast.
Hello everyone and welcome to the show for all football fans who wish to improve their English language skills. My name is Damian, and this is week 4 of the 2016-17 football season and today on our football language podcast we’ll be reviewing some of the football news from the week, introducing some football phrases and taking a look at some of the World Cup qualifying games coming up this weekend.
Now, I’m here in London where the weather is cooling down a little and I wonder what it is like in Tokyo, Japan where Damon is hopefully there at the end of the line. Damon, how are you doing?
DB: Hi there Damian. I wish I could say it was cooling down here in Tokyo, but we’re still in the low 30s or high 20s and it’s humid.
DF: Oh dear, sorry to hear about that! So you’re not too impressed with the weather in Japan, but, Damon, what did you make of the languagecaster derby from last weekend – that’s your team Liverpool against my team Tottenham?
DB: I was worried before the game wondering which Liverpool would turn up – the one that beat Arsenal or lost against Burnley the following week? But on the whole I was pleased, especially with the debut of Matip in defence. Coutinho should have buried his first chance though, and I feel slightly disappointed we didn’t bag all three points. How about you?
DF: Yep. I think you called that just about right. I think we were happy with a draw.
DB: OK, right, what do we have on the show?
Line up and Quiz
DF: Now, we’re going to start our show this week with our good, the bad and ugly section, with three news stories from the beautiful game this week. But before that, we have a quick question for our listeners: Now, there’ll be two new teams from Europe making their debuts in the World Cup qualifiers this weekend, can you name either one of them? We’ll have the answer at the end of the show.
Now, Damon, what was good this week in the world of football...