On this football language podcast for learners of English, we hear from two football fans about their predictions for the 2022 World Cup. Who will be the winners, the flops, the dark horses and the Golden Boot winner. You can read the transcript for this podcast below and there is also a worksheet, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts – we have lots of World Cup resources too. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at [email protected].

 

Football Language Podcast: 2022 World Cup Predictions – Wales and Ecuador Fans

DF: Hello everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. I’m Damian and I am one half of the Languagecaster team, regular listeners of the show will know that the other member of the team is Damon and he is based in Tokyo in Japan. I’m in London where the clocks have gone back this weekend and that means of course that although we may have got an extra hour in bed, Tokyo is now nine hours ahead of London so a little bit further away!

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French)

Now, that message was in French and I wonder how many of the stingers that we use on today’s podcast you can recognise? They will all be from teams that have qualified for this year’s tournament and we’ll let you know what they are at the end of the show.

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Portuguese from Brazil)

OK, on this week’s podcast, we are going to look ahead to the 2022 World Cup that is due to start in three weeks time and we’ll hear from two football fans from around the world on what they think might happen. We have a fan from Wales, who are playing in only their second ever World Cup and their first since 1958 and a fan from Ecuador who are appearing in their fourth World Cup. And both of these football supporters will be telling us what they think might happen in the Qatar World Cup. They will tell us who they think might be the winners, the runners-up, the flops – that’s the team that performs really badly, the leading goalscorer (the Golden Boot winner) and possible dark horses.

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Polish)

Wales fan Gavin

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DF: I started by asking Gavin which team he thought would win the tournament and which ones might be runners-up.

Gavin: Well,