Learn English Through Football

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 North London Derby and Champions League Draw. This week’s football-language podcast looks back at the North London derby and reviews some of the language from the football week including words and phrases from the Champions League draw. We also look back at two major World Cup stories: The final of the 2010 World Cup and the England World Cup winner and Irish World Cup manager Jack Charlton. We also have a football-language quiz question and try and predict some of the upcoming games. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below – you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts – there are hundreds of them dating from way back in 2006! Improve your English by reading the transcript as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several listening and/or reading activities for your learners. If you have questions or comments then you can email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damon=DB; Damian=DF).
Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 North London Derby and Champions League Draw
Introduction
DF: You are listening to languagecaster.com. Hello everyone, we hope you are all safe and well and welcome to the podcast for fans of football, especially those wishing to improve their English language skills. My name is Damian and I’m here in a very sunny London after another weekend full of football action.
DB: Lucky you. Still raining pretty much everyday here in Tokyo. It has been another week packed with football. I’ve watched my team, Liverpool outplay Burnley but only get a draw, a lot of highlights from around Europe including AC Milan shocking Juventus 4-2 and then playing out an entertaining draw with Napoli 2-2. I also saw your team, Tottenham, Damian, win in the North London derby. How about you?
DF: Hi Damon, good to hear you. Well, like you, I’ve managed to see lots of football this week. You mentioned my team Spurs – thank you – and I saw them play really badly in a scoreless draw against lowly Bournemouth and then bounce back to win the North London derby three days later. There are so many games taking place that at times it’s hard to keep track – I saw Chelsea beat Crystal Palace in a cracker in mid-week and then them saw badly lose against a resurgent Sheffield United a couple of days later. Teams can bounce back quickly with so many games to play – though there are only three more fixtures remaining.
DB: And after that, the next question is, when do the new seasons start?
DF: Indeed. Well, let’s start our show and what have we got on the line up today?
Line up
DB: We’ll start with a little look back at some of our archived posts and we’ll specifically go back in time 10 years. After that it’s some football news with stories from the Premier League and news of the passing of one of the greats of football – Jackie Charlton. And that will bring us to our football language sections, and we’ll look at, ‘wayward pass’ and ‘whip the ball’. And to finish, we’ve got a few big matches to predict – one from Spain and one from England.
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