Learn English Through Football

Welcome to the podcast for English language learners who love football. In this week’s podcast – our sixth of the season – we look back at some of the big stories from the football week in our good, the bad and the ugly section, while we’ll also be looking at some of the football language from the past week and of course we’ll be looking ahead to the big games this weekend in our predictions battle – including Chelsea versus Liverpool and Hull City against Arsenal. You can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
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Transcript of the show
DF: You’re listening to languagecaster’s football podcast. Hello everyone, my name is Damian and I’m back here in a very wet and windy London after a short holiday in Ireland and hopefully Damon is there in Tokyo. Hello Damon, how are things there in Japan?
DB: Well, over here in Japan they are also very wet but not so windy – just a little bit cloudy. Now, you’ve just come back from Ireland and I’m wondering… was there any football action over there?
DF: Yes there was Damon, lots and lots of football there was an Irish team playing in the Europa League which we’ll be talking about later on in the show…
DB: Yep…
DF: … and Irish TV shows lots of European and English football so… if you follow us on instagram you’ll see that I’ve been watching lots of football from … pubs in… over the last few days…
DB: Brilliant!
DF: How about you Damon, have you been watching any football?
DB: Just a little bit … just a few Champions League games and so on but I’m looking forward to this weekend’s football which, again, we’ll talk about later on in the show.
DF: Yes indeed. So, Damon, what do we have on today’s podcast?
Line up and Quiz
DB: Well, we will be looking back at some of the big football stories in our good, the bad and ugly section soon. And after that we’ll take a look at some of the language that emerged from the football world this week and then we’ll finish be looking ahead to the big games taking place this weekend in the Premier League in our predictions competition.
DF: Great stuff but before that Damon, we have a football question for our listeners. The first games in the Champions and Europa Leagues took place this week and we want to know how many goals the English sides scored in total – that’s from both the Champions and Europa Leagues. And we’ll have the answer at the end of the show.



DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and next up it’s the good, the bad and the ugly section. And Damian what was good?
Good
DF: Well, it was a good week for Irish side Dundalk as they manag...