1. Upper-Intermediate Lesson 33
Football
Upper-Intermediate Lesson 33

2. Today we are going to learn:
Vocabulary
Idioms

3. Why talk about football?
Many British people care about it.
A very popular topic
Small talk/networking

4. Football vs Soccer

5. Object Of The Game
The aim of football is to score more goals then your opponent in a 90 minute playing time frame.
To score the ball must go into your opponent’s goal. The whole ball needs to be over the line for it to be a legitimate goal.
A goal can be scored with any part of the body apart from the hand or arm up to the shoulder. 

6. People Goalkeeper Referee Defender Linesman (referee's assistant)
Midfielder
Captain
Attacker
Spectators
Substitute
Fans
Team/Squad
Manager/coach

7. Pitch/playing field

8. Goal
Goalpost
Crossbar
Goal line
Net

9. Equipment Players must wear: a team shirt (a jersey) shorts stockings
shin guards
and footwear (boots, cleats)

10. Actions Pass Dribble Strike To be/go wide To hit the bar
To hit the back of the net
To throw in
To get/take a free kick/penalty/corner

11. Crime and punishment Foul Misconduct Verbal caution Give a free kick
Give a penalty kick
To be booked (yellow card)
To be sent off (red card)

12. Game Kick-off First half Half time Second half Stoppage/injury time
Extra time
Penalty shootout

13. What’s the score? Leicester ____ Chelsea 2-1 Leicester ___ the game.
Arsenal ____ 0-4 (to Southhampton)
Tottenham ____ (with West Bromwich) 2-2

14. What’s the score? Leicester beat Chelsea 2-1 Leicester won the game.
Arsenal lost 0-4 (to Southhampton)
Tottenham drew (with West Bromwich) 2-2

15. Tournaments Championship – Everybody plays everybody, home and away
The Premier League
Cup – get knocked out - go through to the next stage
FA Cup
League Cup

16. European Cups The Champions League 4 top teams from England
The Europa League
Places 5-8, FA Cup winner

17. National teams National Football Associations
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA /juːˈeɪfə/) Euro Cup
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA /ˈfiːfə/; English:International Federation of Association Football) The World Cup

18. to keep one’s eye on the ball
(or to take one’s eye off the ball) – to keep (or fail to keep) one’s attention focused on the matter in hand: ‘If you want to be successful in this job, you have to keep your eye on the ball’.

19. to move the goalposts
– to unfairly alter the conditions or rules of a procedure during its course: ‘Olivia quit her job because her employer kept moving the goalposts about her promotion prospects’.

20. a game changer
– an event, idea, or procedure that effects a significant shift in the current way of doing or thinking about something: ‘The recent upturn in sales could be a real game changer for the business’.

21. Hand of God

22. 1999 UEFA Champions League Final
Manchester United vs FC Bayern Munich – 2:1

23. 2005 UEFA Champions League Final
FC Liverpool vs AC Milan

24. Leicester won the 2015–16 Premier League
The odds were 5,000 to 1

25. Today we have learned:
Vocabulary
Idioms