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Our fifth podcast of the season for English language learners who love football features the Manchester derby, while we take a look at some of the language that emerged from some of the big games from the World Cup qualifiers last week.

In this football language podcast we look at the phrase 'soft penalty'.

2018 World Cup Qualifiers in Europe: It's the fourth podcast of the season and this weekend sees domestic leagues in Europe taking a break...

It's the thirdA podcast of the new season and this week we take a look at some language from the big games, including 'last ditch defending' and 'give the green light to'. We also look back at some of the good, the bad and the ugly from this week's football - including a small Lancashire club, while we also feature some of the big games from the Premier League in our predictions battle - including Damian's team Tottenham taking on Damon's team Liverpool. You can check out the transcript for the ...

It's the second podcast of the new season and this week we take a look at some of the language from the big games this week

It's our first podcast of the new season and we take a look at some of the big games in the Premier League this weekend, check out an English for football phrase - this week it's dig deep

Euro 2016 Final France vs Portugal: wyv6xb6e On todaya€™s learning English through football podcast we will be looking ahead to that game and also ...

The Euro 2016 competition is well underway and it is time to take a look at the last of the groups. Group F. In this group areA Austria,A Hungary,A Iceland, andA Portugal,A and ita€™s hard to pick a clear favourite. Listen to the report by clicking below, while explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can be found at the bottom of the post. Euro 2016 Preview - GroupA F [TABLE=490] Portugal Top ranked in EuropeA Portugal are the bookies favourites to top this group, just above Austria, and with C...

On this week's learning English through football podcast take a look at some of the language being used at the start of the Euros - the 2016 European Championships taking place in France.

The European Championships have finally startedA and we continueA our series of previews, spotlightingA Group E, may pundits' group of death.A This group has Belgium, Sweden, the Republic of Ireland, and Italy. Listen to the report by clicking below, while explanations of key vocabulary (in bold) can be found at the bottom of the post. Euro 2016 Preview - GroupA E [TABLE=489] Belgium [perfectpullquote align="left" cite="" link="" color="#16989D" class="" size="24"]Top ranked in Europe[/perfectpu...

The European Championships are about to start and so today in our series of previews we focus on Group D which includes current holders Spain, dark horses Turkey and Croatia as well as the Czech Republic.

We continue with our preview of the European Championship taking place in France by looking at Group C which includes favourites Germany, dark horses Poland, Ukraine and outsiders Northern Ireland.

Euro 2016 Preview - Group B: With the 2016 European Championships about to start we continue with our preview by focusing on Group B which includes England, Russia, Slovakia and Wales.

Today's listening practice looks at group A with hosts France, Romania, Albania and Switzerland.

2016 Copa América Centenario: It's 100 years since the founding of the South American football federation CONMEBOL and so to celebrate this...

This week's English for football phrase is 'CONMEBOL', which is the name of the South American football organisation.

On this week's learning English through football podcast we look back at the 2016 Champions League final that took place in Milan between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid and which saw Real win their 11th European Cup/Champions League title in dramatic circumstances.

2016 Champions League Preview: This weekend in Milan sees the final of the Champions League between two rivals from Madrid: Atlético and Real

This week's English for football phrase is 'ride their luck'. The 'their' in this phrase refers to the football team being described. 'Their' could be substituted by 'his' of...

On this week's listening report we preview all seven matches and even offer a prediction or two!

This week's weekly football post explains the phrase ball to hand.

For languagecaster's main listening report this week we take a look at the two big European cup competitions: the Champions League and the Europa League. For the finale of the European football season in May, the two EUFA competitions are held in the same week, and we compare the money, the format, the winners and theA history of these tournaments. Listening Report: Big European Cup Competitions The two tournaments' histories The Champions League is a muchA moreA prestigious tournament than the ...

This week's weekly football post explains the phrase three-peat. Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below. You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here. Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase Three-peat For this week's English for football phrase, we explain the term three-peat. The term uses the verb to repeat and adds the number three. To repeat, means to do again, and adding three mea...

This week's English for football phrase is 'drop points' and is used in football to describe when a team does not win all three points...