Learn English Through Football

Our fifth podcast of the season for English language learners who love football features the Manchester derby, while we also take a look at some of the language that emerged from some of the big World Cup qualifiers earlier this week. We also look back at some of the good, the bad and the ugly from this week’s football, while we also feature some of the big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle – including Swansea City against Chelsea and Liverpool vs Leicester City. You can check out the transcript for the show in the post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: The 2016-17 Manchester Derby

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Transcript of the show
DB: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football podcast. Hello my name is Damon andI’m in a hot and humid Tokyo and we’re waiting for a typhoon to arrive tomorrow. And I’m hoping down the line is Damian all the way over the Asian and European continents in London.
DF: Hello Damon. Good to hear from you, although I hope the typhoon doesn’t batter you too much. Now, I’m not sure how many of our listeners know about the Irish sport of hurling but I am in a really good mood after the All-Ireland hurling final from last Sunday when my home county Tipperary defeated arch-rivals Kilkenny. It was a wonderful victory indeed! Now we won’t be talking about hurling in today’s show – but what do we have this week, Damon?
Line up and Quiz
DB: First of all congratulations!What a fantastic victory for the Tip! 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, as everyone knows the big game this weekend in the Premier League is the Manchester derby and so what we want to know is what were the two scores from this game last season – what was the score when City hosted United and also in the reverse fixture at Old Trafford? We’ll have the answer at the end of the show.

Good
DB: OK, let’s talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. And I7m going to start with good. Now in last week’s quiz we asked which told you that Gibraltar and Kosovo were the two sides making their debuts in World Cup qualifiers and though Gibraltar lost 1-4 to Greece the Kosovans managed a creditable draw away in Finland for their first ever World Cup point. It was also good for Saudi Arabia, Australia and Uzbekistan as they all began their World Cup campaigns in Asia with two victories out of two. In South America it was a good week for Brazil as they beat Colombia 2-1 to record their second win in 5 days to move in to second place along side Argentina and are now only a point behind leaders Uruguay.
DF: Yes, well done to those teams and also to Ireland who drew 2-2 away in Serbia ...