Football Language Podcast: 2020 June – Bayern Munich march on: On this week’s football-language podcast we review some of the language used to describe the latest Bundesliga matches as Bayern continue to dominate. We also explain a new football phrase ask a football-language quiz and try some predictions. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below – you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts – there are hundreds of them dating from way back in 2006! You can improve your English by reading the transcript as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several listening and/or reading activities for your learners. If you have questions or comments, email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF).
Football Language Podcast: 2020 June – Bayern Munich march on
Introduction
DF: You’re listening to languagecaster.com’s Learn English Through Football Podcast. We hope you are well and keeping safe. My name is Damian and I am based in a still fairly sunny London the day after the latest round of Bundesliga fixtures have been completed and we’ll be talking about them later on in the show. Now, fans of the show will know that it’s usually two of us presenting the podcast but Damon, who is based in Tokyo, is not available today so it’s just going to be me.
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Line up
DF: OK, what do we have on the show today? Well, we explain a football phrase that emerged from the week, disciplinary action, we also ask (and answer) a football-language question about the verb ‘to drive‘, we look back at some predictions and highlight some of the football-language posts that we have recently posted on our site, including lots more World Cup resources.
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Football Language Quiz: To drive
DF: Let’s start with a football language quiz question. Now, in football there are two main meanings of the verb ‘to drive‘. One of these refers to a powerful shot – to drive a shot means to hit the ball hard, while to drive the ball home means to score with a powerful shot. Here’s an example from a recent post we did on the 1998 World Cup last-16 game between Argentina and England:
Gabriel Batistuta drove the ball powerfully past Seaman to put Argentina one up.
But what is the other meaning of ‘to drive‘ in football? Here’s a sentence to help you.
Almost immediately Michael Owen won a penalty after driving at the Argentinian defence and was then brought down by Ayala.
Which of the following does ‘driving at the defence‘ mean?

* To dive over
* To run directly at
* To dribble around
* To shimmy around

And we will have the answer at the end of the show. And just a reminder that you can test your knowledge of football and football language by coming along to languagecaster.com and clicking on the quizzes menu at the top of the page.
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Football-Language: Disciplinary Action
DF: Right,