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In this week’s football language podcast for learners of English, we look back at some of the words and phrases from the first leg Champions League semi-final between Manchester City and Real Madrid, including ‘to edge‘; ‘to pepper the goal‘ and ‘panenka‘. You can find out about their meanings by listening to this week’s football-language podcast.A You can also read a 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.
Learn English Through Football Podcast: 3 Words – Man City v Real Madrid Champions League Semi-final
DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. This is Damian and I’m based here in London and I’m one half of the languagecaster team, the other member of course is Damon who is in Tokyo, Japan. Now of course we all know that Damon is a Liverpool supporter and no doubt he will be looking forward to the 2022 Champions League semi-final first leg game between The Reds and Spanish side Villareal which takes place tomorrow. But I wonder if he watched the first semi-final between Manchester City and Real Madrid which will be the focus of this football-language podcast? Now, it was a great game between two in-form sides (both leaders of their respective leagues) and so on this podcast we look at some of the words and phrases used to describe the semi-final, including the verbs ‘to edge‘ and’to pepper‘, as well as ‘panenka‘.
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Now, we’re going to be looking at these phrases from the BBC website report on this game.
To edge
To pepper the goal
Panenka
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DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster and that message was in Irish and we’d love to hear from anyone else who might like to share the message, ‘you are listening to Languagecaster.com‘ in any other language. And don’t forget that there’s a transcript to this podcast and lots of vocabulary support which you can access by coming along to our site here at languagecaster.com – a great resource for language learners and language teachers.
OK, that’s it for this week’s football-language podcast in which we looked at the phrases, ‘to edge‘; ‘to pepper the goal‘ and ‘panenka‘. What do you think will happen in the second leg of this tie or indeed in the other semi-final? We’ll be back with more football language very soon and until then enjoy all the football this week. Bye bye.