Learn English Through Football Podcast

This week sees the first legs of the Champions League quarter-finals taking place. This year sees three Spanish sides, two from Germany and one from France, Turkey and Italy - that's right, none from England - all battling to make the final that takes place at Wembley in May.

This week, languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase 'to play off the park'

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, we look at the language connected with footballing injuries

On this week's main report, we look at three of the common injuries footballers suffer and the language of injuries.

This week languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase 'to ship goals'.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, we look at the language associated with setting up goals, while in our English for football section Damon introduces some phrases connected to football shots. We also continue our predictions battle...

Setting up goals: Last week, we looked at the language of scoring goals and this week we continue, but we focus on how to describe setting up the goal.

On this week's main report, look at some of last weekend's articles from the respected Guardian newspaper in the UK to show the ways journalists and fans describe how goals are scored.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damian looks at what makes the North-London derby such a big game while Damon introduces the phrase 'to be in the running',

This weekend sees the second North London derby of the season - one of the biggest derbies in English football - between Tottenham and Arsenal. In this report we feature five important things about the North London derby.

This weeka€™s English for Football is to be in the running. If you say a team is in the running, you mean that they have a chance of winning...

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damian looks back at the English League Cup, while Damon introduces the phrase 'to hit form' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes the Milan derby, the League Cup final and another clasico.

It is the final of the League Cup this weekend so on this weeka€™s main report we take a look at the third trophy of English football: The League Cup.

What phrase often follows 'to hit form'? Find out with our Weekly Football Phrase.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damon takes a look at the holding midfielder position in football, while Damian introduces the phrase 'bullet header'

[gss-content-box color="gray"] On this weeka€™s main report we continue our look at the various positions on the pitch by focusing on a specialist midfielder, called the holding midfielder. You can listen to the report by clicking on the link below, while vocabulary support (in bold) appears at the foot of the report.[/gss-content-box] Introduction The holding midfielder has now become a fixture o...

A bullet header: a powerful header that flies, like a bullet from a gun, towards the goal.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damian looks ahead to the knock-out stages of the 2013 Champions League while Damon introduces the phrase 'Hang up your boots' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes the final from the African Nations Cup, as well as big games from the Premier League and La Liga.

The 2012-13 Champions League knock-out stage starts next week with 16 teams battling it out to try and reach the final that takes place on 25th May at Wembley Stadium. The two-legged ties promise to be mouth-watering affairs and so on this week's main football report the languagecaster team looks ahead to some top European club action.

What's the meaning of the phrase 'to hang up your boots'? This phrase is used when a player decides to stop playing the game...

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, Damian talks about the language of transfers and also introduces the phrase 'Transfer Window'

A transfer is when a footballer moves from one club to another and this can come about in two ways: either the club decides to sell the player or the player chooses to leave the club. On this week's main listening report we look at language related to football transfers.

This week, languagecaster.com introduces the football phrase 'transfer window'. You can understand more about this phrase by reading the accompanying transcript.

On this week's football podcast for learners of English, we focus on the 'romance of the cup' and look at some of the language associated with the English FA Cup. Damon also introduces the phrase 'to line up a bid for' before we finish up with our weekly predictions battle which this week includes games from the African Nations Cup, England and of course the FA Cup 4th round.

On this week's main listening report we look at some of the language of the FA Cup.