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Football Vocabulary: The Transfer Window 2010

Football Vocabulary: The Transfer Window 2010

The winter transfer window is about to close, meaning that clubs have only a few more days to buy, sell, loan and trade players. Speculation abounds as gossip, whispers and rumours fill newspapers and websites with the language of football transfers. One area that my football-loving students find difficult to understand is the language used [...]

January 30, 2010 | By | Reply More
Football Vocabulary Check – Week 10

Football Vocabulary Check – Week 10

Try languagecaster’s online crossword puzzle. Before you do listen to our Main Report and read The Good the Bad and the Ugly (you can do both if you listen to our weekly Podcast: this has the Main Report and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Predictions and English for Football). Click [...]

October 18, 2009 | By | Reply More
Football Vocabulary: The Language of Transfers (Part 2)

Football Vocabulary: The Language of Transfers (Part 2)

| Teaching Ideas The summer transfer window is now in full swing with Real Madrid and Manchester City having spent most of the cash so far. Here is an additional list of phrases and terms connected with transfers to go along with our earlier post on the topic. Click to find out more on the [...]

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