Last week, saw the confederations Cup reach its climax with an exciting game seeing Brazil come from two goals down to beat the USA 3-2. The USA certainly impressed the worldwide audience by beating Spain and going close against the South American powerhouse. Perhaps their world ranking of 12 is merited. In other news, it […]
Newsletter
As Real Madrid continue to build their new dream team, other teams are beginning to make moves in the transfer market, World Cup qualifiers continue – good news for North Korea (a 0-0 draw against saudi Arabia sees them through to the World Cup), not so good for Argentina (they lie fourth in the South […]
Week 40: The Copa Libertadores
Download the latest podcast – The Copa Libertadores It’s the 50th anniversary of the biggest football competition south of the equator. and languagcester takes a look at the Copa Libertadores and makes a bold prediction. Download the latest free worksheets and transcripts here. Check out this week’s predictions. Can you do better? Automatically receive the […]
Week 39: The Bundesliga run-in
Download the latest podcast – The Bundesliga run-in There are only four games left in the Bundesliga and still five teams can win the title. This week’s podcast focuses on the final run-in to an action-packed season in Germany and looks at the battles at the top and the bottom of the league. Download the […]
Week 38: Barcelona and Real Madrid (with question)
Download the latest podcast – Barcelona and Real Madrid A look at the rivalry between these two giants of Spanish football. The two teams have met 157 times with Real Madrid coming out top 68 times to Barca’s 59. Download the latest worksheets and transcripts here. Check out this week’s predictions. Can you do better? […]
Week 38: Barcelona and Real Madrid
Download the latest podcast – Barcelona and Real Madrid A look at the rivalry between these two giants of Spanish football. The two teams have met 157 times with Real Madrid coming out top 68 times to Barca’s 59. Download the latest worksheets and transcripts here. Check out this week’s predictions. Can you do better? […]
Week 37: The Premier League Title race
Download the latest podcast – The Premier League Run in Download the latest worksheets and transcripts here. Check out this week’s predictions. Can you do better? Listen to the podcast, read the posts, then leave a comment. ********************************************************************************** The latest football news – The good, the bad and the ugly Andrei Arshavin’s fantastic display against […]
Week 37: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
[print_link] Andrei Arshavin, AZ Alkmaar and Serie A all feature on this week’s good, the bad and the ugly section of languagecaster’s football podcast. Click on the links below to find out more on all of these stories. Explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can be found at the foot of the page. The Good […]
Week 36: The FA Cup semi-finals
Download the latest podcast – The FA Cup Download the latest worksheets and transcripts here. Check out this week’s predictions. Can you do better? Listen to the podcast, read the posts, then leave a comment. ********************************************************************************** The latest football news – The good, the bad and the ugly The Champions League quaretr final second leg […]
Week 24: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
[print_link] Barcelona, Kaka, a tough week in the Premier League and Burnley all feature in this week’s good, the bad and the ugly – the review of the football week on languagecaster’s football podcast. Click on the links below to find out more on all of these stories. Good At the half-way point in La […]
Vocabulary: Week 11
Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster’s Podcast’s Good, Bad and Ugly section – a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets, football glossary and English for football phrases. Spectacular: Amazing, wonderful, fantastic Example: There were two spectacular overhead kicks on show in the Liverpool […]
The good, the bad and the Ugly – Summer podcast 4
The Good It’s been a great tournament so far with only a few dull games – one was the Greece vs Sweden encounter. Favourites (Germany) knocked back a bit, dark horses (Russia, Croatia, Turkey) providing the surprise element, and good attacking football by the ‘bigger’ teams (Spain, Portugal and Holland. The games are proving popular […]
Euro 2008 Predictions
So which team do you think will win Euro 2008? How about the dark horses? Which team will underachieve and who will be the player of the tournament? Simply click on the comment link at the foot of the post and tell us your predictions for Euro 2008 which we will then add to the […]