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Football Language: Low Centre of Gravity

October 18, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

Low centre of gravity: Sometimes in football we use this phrase to describe a player – not usually a tall one – who has really good balance and can turn very easily.

Weekly Football Phrase: Play-offs

May 10, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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This week’s English for football phrase is ‘play-offs’

Weekly Football Phrase: Take a knock

March 21, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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This week’s football phrase is ‘take a knock’

Weekly Football Phrase: Head-butt

March 8, 2014 by Learn English through Football 2 Comments

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What does ‘head-butt’ mean?

Weekly Football Phrase: To be out injured

February 21, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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Our Football Phrase for this week is ‘to be out injured’

Learning English Through Football Podcast: 2013-14 Half-term Report on Liverpool

January 27, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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This week’s Learn English Through Football Podcast focuses on Damon’s favourite football team, Liverpool.

Weekly Football Phrase: Crunch Game

January 10, 2014 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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This week’s English for football phrase is the expression crunch game – do you know what this means?

Football Glossary: One-two

December 5, 2013 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

What does a ‘one-two’ in football mean?

Learn English Through Football Podcast: Football Badges and the Merseyside Derby

November 26, 2013 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

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On this week’s football podcast for learners of English we feature the language of football badges as well as look back at some of our predictions and we also explain a new football expression.

Weekly Football Phrase: Curtain raiser

August 10, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

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Weekly Football Phrase: To start the new season, we look at the phrase ‘curtain raiser’, a phrase which is used to introduce the first match of a new season.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: The Champions League Semi Finals

April 28, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

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This week’s languagecaster podcast brings you more ‘language of predictions’ plus all our usual features.

Football Glossary: (to) Mark

April 27, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

Languagecaster’s glossary of footballing phrases – to mark – An action to prevent an opposing player from receiving the ball; staying close to an opposing player.

Football Glossary: (to) Pull the strings

April 27, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

Languagecaster glossary – To pull the strings – To control the game; usually by a midfielder who creates chances, passes the ball, and keeps possession for his or her team.

Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Lob

April 20, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

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How many different kinds of shots are there in football – here we explain one of them – to lob

Football Glossary: The Miracle of Istanbul

March 20, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

Languagecaster’s football glossary – Do you know what The Miracle of Istanbul’ refers to?

Weekly football phrase: To take a point

March 10, 2013 by Learn English through Football Leave a Comment

This week, languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase ‘to take a point’.

Languagecaster Main Report: The Language of Goals

March 6, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

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On this week’s main report, look at some of last weekend’s articles from the respected Guardian newspaper in the UK to show the ways journalists and fans describe how goals are scored.

Learn English Through Football Podcast: Tottenham v Arsenal

March 4, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

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On this week’s football podcast for learners of English, Damian looks at what makes the North-London derby such a big game while Damon introduces the phrase ‘to be in the running’,

Football Glossary: Squad

February 26, 2013 by grell Leave a Comment

Squad – Another word for team; usually refers to the first team, substitutes and maybe the reserves.

Football Glossary: (a) Stalemate