Learn English Through Football

On this football language podcast for learners of English, we look at some of the words and phrases from the 2022 Women’s Euros quarter-final match beween France and the holders the Netherlands. We look at three phrases used  in a BBC report on the game: ‘break the deadlock‘; ‘from the spot‘ and ‘set up a meeting with‘.  You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.
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Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2022 Women’s Euros – France vs The Netherlands
DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. I’m Damian and I’m here in London and I’m one half of the languagecaster team, the other member of course is Damon who’s based in Tokyo, in Japan.
OK, I am in a warm and sunny London and it’s the day after the final quarter-final match from the 2022 Women’s European Championship that is taking place here in England. And so on today’s football language podcast we take a look at some of the words and phrases from the last of these four quarter-finals; and this one was beween holders the Netherlands and France. To do this we’ll look at one of the sentences from a report on the BBC website that includes phrases such as ‘break the deadlock‘; ‘from the spot‘ and ‘set up a meeting with‘. And don’t forget that you can also listen to our recent podcast on some of the words and phrases from the England versus Spain last eight game in which we discuss the phrases, thunder in; stunner and fire into.
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France 1-0 The Netherlands