Category: World Cup Stars
Podcast (podcast2): Play in new window | Download Continuing our series of the world’s best footballers, languagecaster.com takes a look at a player who would be in most people’s top five best players ever – Hendrik Johannes Cruijff. Check out previous posts on great footballers here. Recently, a debate has started as to whether [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Subscribe: Main Listening Report | Complete List Here This week’s main report continues with our series of profiling football super stars. Earlier this week we saw the retirement of one of the greatest strikers of this generation, O Fenômeno, Ronaldo. Explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Subscribe: Main Report Our fourth spotlight on World Cup Stars looks at one of Germany’s finest – der bomber! Check out previous posts on World Cup Stars here. “(He) was short , squat, awkward-looking and not notably fast”, wrote David Winner in Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Subscribe: Main Report This week’s main report looks at the newly-crowned Ballon D’or winner, Leo Messi. The transcript can be found below, while vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post. Listen to the report here Recently I was [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Listen to the report here Transcript Goalkeepers can often be overlooked when talking about the best football players, but a great goalkeeper can inspire the rest of the side to play with confidence and help them perform better than they look on paper. this was surely the case [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download The dust from the World Cup qualifiers has settled, and this week we have Part III in our series on the World Cup greats – the Russian, Lev Yashin. Read our football news review in the good, the bad and the ugly Check out a new football expression [...]
Listen to this week’s show here This World Cup Stars post features possibly the greatest player of all time, Diego Maradona. To help you understand a little better there is a vocabulary list containing the words in bold at the foot of this post TRANSCRIPT Pele may have won more World Cup titles, Ronaldo may [...]
| World Cup Stars Listen to this week’s show here Transcript Each era has its heroes and stars. Today’s football world is dominated by players like David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, who are role models to many young players, but I wonder how long their influence will last. There is one player that has stood [...]
Languagecaster Podcast: The Big European Leagues
Podcast: Play in new window | Download On this week’s podcast, languagecaster takes alook at the Premier League, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and La Liga. 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 [...]
Languagecaster Podcast: FA Cup Final 2012
On this week’s podcast, we take a look at the English FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
Languagecaster Podcast: The Big European Leagues
Podcast: Play in new window | Download On this week’s podcast, languagecaster takes alook at the Premier League, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and La Liga. 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 [...]
Languagecaster Podcast: FA Cup Final 2012
On this week’s podcast, we take a look at the English FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
Languagecaster Podcast: The Title Decider – MU vs MC
On this week’s podcast, two fans tell us what they think will happen n the Manchester derby next Monday.
Main Listening Report: European Season Finale – England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey and France
On this week’s main listening report Damian and Damon take a look at some of the key end of season matches in some of the big leagues in Europe.
Main Listening Report: The FA Cup In Numbers
On this week’s main listening report we preview the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool by taking a look at the oldest competition in the world through numbers.
Main Listening Report: The Manchester Derby
On this week’s main listening report we interview a Manchester United fan and a Manchester City fan and ask them what they think will happen next Monday when their teams clash in the Manchester Derby.
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