Ace Takemura is Japan’s latest hot footballing talent. How will his career progress? Will he get the big move that he wants? Follow the ups and downs and learn English as we go!
At Real Football English, we believe learning English should be fun, and that football is a powerful tool to learn English. Learn to speak English to help you play the game with foreigners, understand the sports news abroad and talk with your mates in English. You will learn English that is particular to football, but as we go through each episode, we will learn how those words and phrases can also be used in both conversational and business surroundings as well.
Learning should be entertaining and interactive, so that’s why we call our units Episodes rather than lessons. Each Episode follows a similar structure to allow you to get familiar with how we learn
1. Team Talk
An introduction to today’s Episode theme, and the latest news about Ace.
2. Get match fit!
Some vocal and phrases or other language point that will be highlighted in the Episode. Look through before you listen to familiarise yourself with any new language
3. Kick off
Time to listen to this Episode’s' listening exercise. Play the conversation and answer the True or False questions. Don’t forget to click submit to see how you have done!
4. Finding Space
Listen again and try to complete the missing spaces. If you need to listen more than once, then go ahead. Don’t forget to click submit to check your answers.
5. Half-Time Analysis
Listen one final time and follow the transcript noting any new words that are new to you.
6. Match it!
It’s time to check whether you can remember the new vocabulary - match our focus words with their definition.
7. Second Half
In the Second half of the Episode, we always have an interesting original football article where we reinforce some of the focuslanguage and learn more. The topics are always a great read for football fans and cover some fascinating stories about football culture and history.
8. Stoppage Time
Check your comprehension of the article with these multiple choice questions. Don’t forget to click submit to see if you were correct.
9. Extra Time
Now it is time to look at some great content related to today’s Episode. Here we guide you to some real fascinating websites or videos on the web. Try to understand at first, and if a video on Youtube, don’t forget to switch on subtitles.
10. Post-Match
We are learning English through football, our passion, but the language you learn can be used in all sorts of situations. Here you have some example of our focus language being used in business and conversational situations.
11. Match Report
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