Archive for October, 2011

 Print This Post | Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase

Each week the languagecaster team will explain a football phrase or cliche for learners of English who love the sport. On this week’s show we feature the phrase to secure a berth. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase, while you can also read the transcript below that. You can also find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football cliches here and our huge football glossary here.

Listen here: To secure a berth.mp3

This week’s English for football phrase is ‘to Secure a berth‘. The verb to secure means to make something safe, while the noun berth refers to a place where ships can stop or park and so to secure a berth means to make sure a spot is safe. This week the last remaining games in the European Championship qualifying rounds have been taking place and many of the big sides have now progressed to the finals – they have secured their berth (place) in the 2012 tournament. England captain John Terry was pleased that England have managed to secure their berth and hopes his side can improve on their recent tournament performances. To secure a berth.

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On this week’s podcast our German correspondent Hans takes a look at this season’s Bundesliga – the German league. Remember, you can also:

• Listen only to the main report here – complete with transcript and vocabulary
• Learners of English can review the footballing news from around the world in our good, the bad and the ugly section of the show
• Check out a new football expression in English for Football
• For learners of English check out our Football Language Resources page with:
• A page with all our Football vocabulary posts
• Football glossary (a huge collection of football vocabulary, football cliches and football phrases)
• Worksheets and transcripts from previous podcasts

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 Print This Post | Subscribe: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In this week’s review section, we look at stories from the Asian Champions League, pressure at Sunderland and Carlos Tevez embroiled in more controversy. You can listen to these and other stories on our weekly podcast and can find explanations of key vocabulary in bold below, or highlighted in blue.

Good

They were in our bad section not so long ago, but the Korean teams in the Asian Champions League came good. Two of the three teams progress to the semi finals when it looked as though none would. Jeonbuk and Suwan booked their places with second leg wins against Japan’s Osaka and Iran’s Zob Ahan respectively. Jeonbuk demolished Osaka 6-1 in the second leg, going through 9-5 on aggregate, while Suwan won a difficult away tie 2-1 after extra time. In the semis Jeonbuk will face the Qatari outfit Al-Sadd while Suwan take on Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia. An all Korean final continue