On this week’s football-language podcast -Liverpool vs Manchester City, we review the football news – with stories about big comebacks, focus on some football language – how is ‘ball’ used? And look at some international fixtures from Asia and Europe. If you’d like the transcript to the show please show your support by becoming a patron (through Patreon). With the transcript you can improve your English by reading as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several activities for your learners. If you have questions or comments, email us at: [email protected] (Damon=DB).

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2019-20 Liverpool vs Manchester City

DF: You’re listening to Languagecaster.com’s football-language podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to the Learn English Through Football Podcast – this is the podcast for all those who love the beautiful game of football and who also wish to improve their English language skills. My name’s Damon and I’m based in Japan, and it’s been great weather – cool, autumnal weather with lovely blue skies. The summer heat is well and truly gone!

As for football, well, I watched a couple of Champions League games mid-week, including the Liverpool vs Genk game, and before that I saw Manchester United lose to Bournemouth and Liverpool snatch a victory away at Aston Villa with two late late goals last weekend. But of course, the highlight for me as a Liverpool fan was watching The Reds shred Manchester City’s defence and beat them 3-1 on Sunday. Wow!

Line up

DB: OK we’ll start with lots of news from last week in the football world, including late comebacks and red cards. After that, it’s our focus on the language of football and we’ll be focusing on the word ‘ball’ and we’ve got a quiz question on attacking. And that will bring us to the end of the show and our last section, predictions.

Stinger: Your listening to languageaster.com (In German)

DB: Right, let’s take a look at the footballing news in the good, the bad and the ugly.

Good

DB: My good for the week focuses on comebacks in the Champions League with Chelsea coming back from 4-1 down against Ajax…

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