English Through Football Podcast – May 2020 Bundesliga Returns: The Bundesliga is back after a two-month break due to Covid-19 and on this podcast we look ahead to the final nine matches of the season. We look at the title race, the relegation battle and some of the other main stories related to the first major European season to return to action after the lockdown. We also explain a new football phrase, give some predictions and ask a football-language question. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below – you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts – there are hundreds! You can improve your English by reading the transcript as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several listening and/or reading activities for your learners. If you have questions or comments, email us at: [email protected] (Damian=DF/Damon=DB).

Learn English Through Football Podcast: May 2020 – May 2020 Bundesliga Returns

Introduction

DF: Hello everyone, you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. We hope you are well and staying safe. My name is Damian and I am here in London where the weather is dry but cloudy. How are you Damon? How is Tokyo?

DB: I’m well Damian. It rained all Saturday, that was yesterday, but that made it easy to stay at home. A rainy Saturday here in Japan but a big weekend in Germany as the Bundesliga restarts. As you mentioned Damon, we’ll be looking at the league on this show – the situation before the re-start, the front runners, and teams facing relegation.

DF: Yes, on a day when the Premier League should have been playing its final game of the season – there is still no real sign when English football will return – the German league, the Bundesliga, has restarted after two months of lockdown. Now Damon, what else is on this week’s podcast?

Line up

DB: Well, we’ll start off by highlighting some of the resources that we’ve posted on our site over the past seven days and then we’ll have a football-language quiz question which this week features a German football phrase. After that we will look ahead to the restart of the Bundesliga when we look at some of the language around the title race and the relegation battle. We will also explain some football expressions, including pre-season, we’ll predict some of the games from the Bundesliga including the big derby between Dortmund and Schalke and answer some listeners’ posts.

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

DF: Now, Damon mentioned that we have been adding lots of football-language resources to our site over the past seven days and these include an online gap fill activity about the game involving Liverpool and Leicester – one of your favourites, Damon, right!

DB: Yes!

DF: We have also added a couple of new football language posts, including ‘yo-yo club‘, a