Learn English Through Football Podcast: Underway

In this week's football-language podcast we look at some language to describe the start of the season, including the phrase, 'get underway'. 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 about the phrase or our podcast then you can contact us here.

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Hello

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



DF: Hello everyone and welcome to the show for fans of football who want to improve their English. My name is Damian and I am based in London where the weather has got a lot cooler this week - thankfully!. How is the weather where you are? And I wonder how the weather is in Tokyo, Japan where of course the other member of the Learn English Through Football team, Damon, is based?



Now, before we move on to talk about some football language we'd like to let you know that we have been making some changes to our site. We are now known as learnengishthroughfootball.com as we have changed our domain name which means we are no longer using languagecaster.com. We thought it might be a good idea to have a name that better reflects what we do: learning English through football! But don't worry you can still find us even if you still click on the old name and you will still hear and see languagecaster on some parts of our site and on our podcast, including this stinger!



Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (a Dulwich Hamlet fan)



DF: Right, you just heard from a Dulwich Hamlet fan - they are a non-league team here in London  [and we will be hearing from more football fans throughout the show; many of them in different languages. Try and see if you can recognise what some of these languages are. Don't worry if you don't know them, we'll give you the answers at the end of the show.



And of course it would be great if you could send us a message in your own language - just tell us, 'You are listening to the Learn English through football podcast' in any language that you know.



Right, here's another stinger for you and I will give you a clue, this language is spoken in Europe and their football season kicks off, or starts, this weekend.



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

http://gty.im/2230432228



Football Language: Kick off & Underway

Right, the football season in many European countries has already started. So, for example, England and Spain started last week, while Scotland, Portugal, the Netherlands and Turkey all started before that and more leagues are starting this weekend. So, in this week's football-language podcast we will look at two phrases that are commonly used to describe the start of the season: 'kick off' and 'get underway'.

Kick off

DF: OK, let's start with a common football phrase, 'kick off' which means to start something like a match or a tournament or a season. So, for example, the game kicked off at 3:00 on Saturday; the game started at 3:00 . We also use this phrase to describe the action of starting the game; a player stands near the ball in the centre of the pitch (or in the centre circle) and kicks the ball to start the game - this is the kick off (so, Spurs kicked off the first half, for example).