Learn English Through Football

This week’s Learn English Through Football Podcast starts off with the good, the bad and the ugly stories from the footballing world, then explains some football phrases, and finishes off with some predictions from the Premier League. This week, the focus is on the Chelsea vs Man United game. For those who wish to practise their English, there is a transcript below to help with reading and listening (Damian = DF, Damon = DB).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2017 Chelsea v Man Utd


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Transcript of the show
DB: You are listening to Languagecaster’s football-language podcast. Hello everyone. Welcome to the show for all those who love the world’s favourite game and who want to improve their English skills. My name’s Damon and I’m based in Tokyo, which is enjoying some lovely sunny weather at the moment. Now, Damian is having a short trip to Ireland but has managed to keep in contact and send a few words via the magic of the internet.
DF: Yes, as Damon says I am in Ireland for the weekend and so am unable to join you live but I was able to record some things for this week’s show.
Now, the weather here in Ireland has been typical for this time of year – windy, some rain and the temperature is fairly chilly though we have also had some sun and blue skies – pretty much everything in fact!
Now, the Premier League is huge here in Ireland and not just because most of the Irish national team play for clubs there, but most football fans here would support an English – or sometimes even a Scottish club before a team from the domestic league – this is called the League of Ireland. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Celtic have a huge following though you can find fans of most top-flight teams here and many of them will travel to the UK to watch their favourite teams on a fairly regular basis. So many fans here in Ireland will be looking forward to a big weekend of football action with Manchester City hosting Arsenal, Manchester United travelling to London to face Chelsea and Tottenham against Crystal Palace – and these three games all feature in our predictions later on in the show.
Now, there are two other big football stories here in Ireland. The first involves the national side as they get ready for their World Cup play-off game against Denmark next weekend and of course we’ll be looking at that game and all the other World Cup play-off matches in next week’s podcast. The other big story here is the FAI Cup final (That’s the Football Association of Ireland) which is taking place this weekend – that’s the domestic football cup final– between the recently-crowned League of Ireland champions Cork City and Dundalk United who have been the top team in the previous three years or so. It promises to be a big game and if I had to choose a winner I think I’d go for Dundalk, which would of course prevent Cork from completing the league and cup double.
DB: Yes a big week next week for Ireland in the World Cup play-off against Denmark.
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Line Up
DB: On the show we have three main sections, and this is the same each week: a news section called the good, the bad and the ugly, a football language section, and a predictions section at the end of the show. Now,