Learn English Through Football
The new Premier League 2019-20 season is now up and running and this week we feature three of the big games from the second round of matches, including Manchester City hosting Tottenham and Newcastle United travelling to Norwich City - a little early … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football Podcast - The 2019-20 Season Starts. This is our first podcast as the new 2019-20 season starts this weekend. We'll take a look at some of the language involved in the opening round of games and the football stories … [Continue reading]
In this short post on the language of football, we explain the meaning of the word, 'streak', and how it is used with 'winning', 'losing', and 'scoring'. If you have questions or comments, email us at: admin@languagecaster.com. Football Language: … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football Podcast - 2019 Copa America and Women's World Cup Finals: It's finals weekend as the 2019 Women's World Cup, Copa America and the CONCACAF Gold Cup finals all take place this Sunday.We'll be looking ahead to all three … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup Third-place play-off - Sweden vs England: The two losing semi-finalists met in the the third-place play-off in Nice with Sweden winning 2-1 over England who saw another goal disallowed by VAR. In today's post we look at some … [Continue reading]
In this post on the language of football, we explain the meaning of the word, 'CONCACAF', which is one of the world's football organisations. If you have questions or comments, email us at: admin@languagecaster.com. Football Language: CONCACAF The … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup Semi-finals: England vs USA and Sweden vs Holland: We now know the two sides that will contest the 2019 Women's World Cup final in Lyon on Sunday: the Netherlands and the USA. The Dutch had to battle through 120 minutes against … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football Podcast - 2019 Copa America and Women's World Cup Semi-finals: Another busy week of football with international matches being played in France, the USA and Brazil and we'll be looking at some of the language that has … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football: Ghost Hello everyone, my name is Damian from the languagecaster team and in this post we explain the word ‘ghost’ and how it is used in football. If you want to have the transcript for this extra football-language … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football Podcast - 2019 Women's World Cup Language Review Quiz: Every day during the 2019 Women's World Cup we have been explaining some of the language that has emerged from the tournament and collected some of this into a … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup Quarter-final - Sweden v Germany and Netherlands v Italy: The third and fourth quarter-finals of the 2019 Women's World Cup took place today with the Netherlands and Sweden making it through to the second semi-final in Lyon on … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup Quarter-final - USA vs France: The second quarter-final of the 2019 Women's World Cup took place today in Paris and the hosts France were beaten by the holders USA in a thrilling game. The USA scored early through their captain … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup: Quarter-final England vs Norway: The first of the 2019 Women's World Cup quarter-finals took place yesterday and England reached their second successive World Cup semi-final after easily defeating Norway 3-0. They scored early … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup Last Sixteen: Day 4 Netherlands vs Japan: The knockout stage of the last 16 came to an end yesterday in dramatic fashion with a last-gasp penalty by the Netherlands sending Japan crashing out of the tournament. The European … [Continue reading]
Learn English Through Football Podcast - 2019 AFCON, Copa America and Women's World Cup Last 16: Lots and lots of football taking place this week as the 2019 Women’s World Cup moves into the last 16, the Copa America group stages are coming to an end … [Continue reading]
2019 Women's World Cup - Last Sixteen Day 2 England vs Cameroon: The knockout stage continued today with two very entertaining but very different games that saw hosts France and one of the favourites England qualifying for the quarter-finals. In this … [Continue reading]