Learn English Through Football Podcast: To Head Out

In this week's football-language podcast we look at some of the language from the dramatic Champions League semi-final second leg between Inter and Barcelona, including the phrase, 'to head out'. We will also have  some predictions, including el clasico and Liverpool versus Arsenal. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com

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Hello

DB: You are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast.



Hello everyone and welcome to the show for all those who love the beautiful game of football and who want to improve their English language skills. My name's Damon and I'm talking to you from a cloudy and wet Tokyo. What football did you watch this week? Hopefully you managed to see the fantastic Champions League semifinal second leg between Inter and Barcelona. What an amazing game. I'm sure Damian, the other member of the languagecaster team in London watched that. I'm guessing he also watched his team Tottenham qualify for the Europa League final. I bet he's in a good mood. Damian, how are things?



DF: Hello Damon and hello to all the listeners too. Yes, I am in a good mood after Tottenham's very professional performance this week in the Arctic Circle against Norwegian side Bodø/Glimt in the Europa League semi-final. We ran out comfortable 2-0 winners in the end to go through to the final 5-1 on aggregate, that's 5-1 in total, where we will be facing Manchester United in the final so it's an all-English affair in the final. Who knows, maybe both the Languagecaster hosts' teams will win silverware this season!



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



DF: Yes, you are listening to Languagecaster and that message was in Hungarian and we are going to have more stingers or messages throughout the show in different languages; so which ones can you recognise? Don't worry if you don't know them, we'll give you the answers at the end of the show. And here's another one for you and I will give you a clue, this language is spoken in Europe.



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

Today's Show

DF: Damon, what do we have on today's show?



DB: Well Damian, we're going to focus on that match I mentioned at the start of the show: the Champions League semi final second leg between Inter and Barcelona. We've got some football words and phrases that explain key parts of that match. After that, we have some predictions, with big games in England and Spain, and we'll finish with a bit of information about how you can contact us.