Learn English Through Football

Each week we publish a podcast for learners of English who love football. The podcasts feature real-life stories from the world of football and follow the same format each week: an introduction, a review of the football week,
a main listening report, an explanation of a football expression, as well as some predictions.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 Champions and Europa League Finals Tournaments

August 10, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast – 2020 Champions and Europa League Finals Tournament: This week’s football-language podcast looks ahead to the Champions League and the Europa League tournaments that are being played in Portugal and Germany over the next two weeks. We look at some of the language involved in these two competitions including words and phrases around the format, some of the new rules and of course ways of describing the games themselves. We also review some of the other football news from the week, discuss some newspaper headlines, ask a football-language quiz question, introduce some new polls, offer some predictions and of course explain some of the language that has emerged from the football world this week.

Football Language Podcast: 2019-20 Review of Tottenham’s Season

August 8, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Football Language Podcast: 2019-20 Review of Tottenham’s Season – In this football language podcast I review some of the highs and lows from Totenham’s 2019-20 season. We will look at some of the language from the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the season.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2019-20 Final Day of the Season

July 30, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2019-20 Final Day of the Season: This week’s football-language podcast looks ahead to the final day of the 2019-20 season – almost a year after the season kicked off last August. We look ahead to some of the key final fixtures taking place this Sunday in our predictions section, we also explain some football language that has emerged from the week including the phrase, ‘as it stands’. There is also a review of the football week, a football-language quiz question and some new polls.

Learn English Through Football: July 2020 FA Cup Semi Final and Real Madrid

July 21, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football: July 2020 FA Cup Semi Final and Real Madrid – This week’s football-language podcast reviews the FA Cup semi-finals and also looks at some football language that emerged from the week, including the phrase ‘flighted pass’.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 North London Derby and Champions League Draw

July 14, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: Bayern Hunt Treble – 2020

July 6, 2020 by grell Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: Bayern Hunt Treble-2020. This week’s podcast takes a look at Bayern Munich’s hopes of a treble

Football Language – In the News: Manchester City 4-0 Liverpool 2020

July 4, 2020 by grell Leave a Comment

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Football Language – In the News: Manchester City 4-0 Liverpool 2020: In this short football language podcast we discuss some of the football language connected with a match in the news.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 Premier League Champions Liverpool

June 30, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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2020 Premier League Champions Liverpool

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 Premier League Champions Liverpool in Numbers

June 27, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2020 Premier League Champions Liverpool in Numbers: On this short football language podcast we take a look at some of the key numbers from Liverpool’s 2020 title winning season.

Football Language Podcast: June 2020 Everton v Liverpool

June 23, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Short Football Language Podcast: Showboat and Play to the Crowd

June 20, 2020 by grell Leave a Comment

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Learn English Through Football Podcast – Showboat and Play to the Crowd: Welcome everyone to this short football language podcast.

Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Coppa Italia Final and Manchester City v Arsenal

June 16, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Coppa Italia Final and Manchester City v Arsenal – On this week’s football-language podcast we discuss some of the language that has appeared in the football world this week, including the phrases, ‘dispatch’ and ‘pitch invader’.

Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Premier League set to restart

June 8, 2020 by grell Leave a Comment

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Football Language Podcast: June 2020 – Premier League set to restart: On this week’s football-language podcast we take a look at some of the news from the football world.

Football Language Podcast: 2020 June – Bayern Munich march on

June 5, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Bayern Munich March On: On this week’s football-language podcast we review some of the language used to describe the latest Bundesliga matches as Bayern continue to dominate. We also explain a new football phrase ask a football-language quiz and try some predictions.

Football Language Podcast: It’s the hope that kills you

June 1, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Football Language Podcast: It’s the hope that kills you – Champions League Final 2019: On this extra football-language podcast we take a look at the football phrase, ‘it’s the hope that kills you’ as I look back at the 2019 Champions League final and attempt to address the pain that football fans feel when their favourite team loses!

Football Language Podcast: 1998 World Cup – England vs Argentina

May 31, 2020 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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English Through Football Podcast – 1998 World Cup England vs Argentina: In this podcast we continue with our reviews of some of the great World Cup matches by looking at the England versus Argentina game from 1998.

Football Language Podcast: May 2020 – Bundesliga Week 2

May 25, 2020 by grell Leave a Comment

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Football in the Bundesliga has been back for over a week now and on this show, we take a look at some of the language connected with one of these Bundesliga matches from the week – the Berlin derby between Hertha and Union.