Learn English Through Football

This week saw Champions League and Europa League quarter-final first legs, but these were overshadowed by the attack on the Dortmund team bus. This news will feature on our review section this week. We also have predictions, with games involving Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham, your posts, football language from the week and of course you can read the transcript for the show in our post below (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Dortmund


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Transcript of the show
DB: You’re listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Hello everyone, my name is Damon and I am here in a lovely sunny Tokyo hoping to talk to Damian down the line in London. Damian, how are you doing? You must be happy with your team, Tottenham, still pushing Chelsea for the title!
DF: Hello Damon, good to hear from you – it’s a little chilly here in London but at least it’s not raining! It’s been another busy week of football with Champions League quarter-finals taking place. Did you manage to see any?
DB: None! I need to work on my satellite subscription! Maybe when Liverpool get back in the Champions League next season? You?
DF: I saw the Dortmund-Monaco game which was high on emotion indeed. By the way, as for Spurs, yes, we are doing well but I am still a little nervous of today’s game against Bournemouth.
Line up
DF: Now, what else Damon do we have on today’s show?
DB: As you’ve already mentioned, we’ve had an eventful week of football in Europe, overshadowed by the attack on the Dortmund bus, more on that in our review section – the good, the bad, and the ugly. After that we have two football phrases for you ‘to sky the ball over the bar‘ and a ‘sweet left foot‘.
DF: And after all of that, we’ll finish up with our predictions and we’re going to look at three of the big games in the Premier League. We’re well and truly in the business end of the season!
DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com and that was in Polish. We’d love to have some more voices and languages in our collection: you can record the message “You are listening to languagecaster” in your language, or “Hi I’m a fan of (whatever your team is), and you’re listening to languagecaster.com’ – this message in English! Just send it on to admin@languagecaster.com.
DF: Right Damon, let’s start the good, the bad and the ugly; what was good this week?
Good
DB: Well the big news this week was the attack on the Dortmund team bus ahead of the quarter-final fixture against Monaco and the cancellation of the game. Some good did come out of this terrible event, though. Football showed its good side,