Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cup. Show all posts

6.12.2010

The last World Cup post for today (I promise).

This video has no educational purpose at all. It's just a fun dance tune from the 2006 World Cup, and it's easy to understand the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOZp6rgDedo

I just want to make it clear, by the way, that I'm not a really huge football fan or anything; English teachers have a nasty habit of focusing vocabulary on a particular season or event - it's simply a way of using current events (=news) to introduce new concepts. (Teacher stuff. :)

5.27.2010

Football English

World Cup time is almost here!!

Want an easy way to practice your English listening? BBC Five Live Radio is going to be broadcasting EVERY (yup, all of them!) match of the World Cup, live from South Africa.

You can hear the games for free (in English) by clicking on:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/fivelive