8 Football (Soccer) Phrases You MUST KNOW! Learn English

hello everyone welcome to today's English lesson live with me and English here on English like a native do you like football do you like learning English if the answer to either of those questions is yes then this is a very good lesson for you we're learning some must know phrases when talking about football now when I say football I mean the English version of football the British version of football which is where you put the ball on the floor and you kick it around I don't mean I don't mean American football so in America football is very different and Americans call football soccer I'm not sure about other countries whether you call it football or soccer but anyway I'm talking about soccer and the British English version of football where the ball is on the floor of course we have the World Cup starting or it has just started it's very exciting please do let me know if you are going to watching the World Cup and if so let me know which team you are going to be supporting as well as which team you think are likely to win so place your bets who do you think is going to work win this World Cup oh it's going to be very exciting right so today's must know football phrases let's get straight into it there are only eight of them so let's get on with the very first one I'm gonna bring it up for you now okay so as always I've made some beautiful notes for you English like a native must know football phrases talk about football like a native football phrases the very first football phrase that you should know is back of the net if we say back of the net we mean to score a goal so for example I've written this sentence it's up to the keeper now no it's beyond the keeper England has buried that ball in the back of the net what a goal I think perhaps I'm being a little bit optimistic by saying England and the team that have scored that goal hopefully England will score lots of goals but there you go to put something into the back to put the ball in the back of the net or if you just say it back as a net or you might use it as an instruction come on back in the net score the goal get it in there then we were talking about a goal which is always exciting fantastic I've got some England supporters in already I've got some people support from Argentina Germany where else in the world are you watching from lots of Argentine supporters Wow lots of Argentine supporters hello Argentina hola wow that's incredible ok Peru as well fabulous so back at the net do you have something similar in your language do you have a similar phrase like back of the net let's have a look what my patrons are saying hello patrons how are you Michaelangelo hello your may be the only one in Italy who doesn't like football you know everyone has their own things that they like and dislike and that's absolutely fine I'm actually heading to Italy tomorrow I'm very excited I'm going to be spending the next two weeks in Italy it's gonna be a fabulous little trip Alexander hello Anna are you going to watch the football as I said I'm going to be in Italy so it's gonna be difficult to try and fit in the traveling around seeing games but we'll see we'll just see what happens Alexander personally whenever I watch football in England I don't understand the commentators I understand only some separate words and phrases although I used to watch football a lot that's interesting Alexander yet commentators can speak quite fast so I'm not surprised if you found it difficult perhaps because of the pace and they tend to have a certain tone to their voice that can make it difficult to understand them but that's what today's lesson is gonna help you with hopefully I have to say a huge thank you to Justin hello Justin you're quite quick the mark to jump in here nice to see you you've made a super chat donation which of course I'm always grateful for donations and as a way of saying thank you I will send you a copy of these notes if you want them Justin just drop me a message and I'll send them to you just I think you're a patron anyway aren't you so you'll get them because all patrons get these notes okay and you said Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oh fantastic okay so the next phrase on the list after back of the net is to get stuck in now this can be used outside of football but it's used in football quite a lot you might hear people say come on get stuck in or they might say oh that player really got stuck in in that game and to get stuck in just means to get involved and play with determination so do you know any football players that you expect will get stuck in are there any players who are particularly passionate when they play the example sentence I've given is come on Rooney get stuck in that's something you might shout from the stand if you're watching or you might shout it at the telly as many people watch the the matches on TV I'm regularly shout quite loudly at the screen don't they camellia says what's your favorite team in England well I used to play football quite a lot in fact in college I was captain of the girls team yep I was a good player but I've never been a big follower of football I do watch the World Cup and sometimes other international matches but I'm much more of a doer than a watcher when I did watch internal football so when I watched like the leagues I was a supporter of Manchester United because I was a girl living growing up in Manchester so Manchester United were my team but since I've moved away grown up I don't really follow football within the UK but I do always take a great interest in the World Cup it's always good fun okay so get stuck in and back at the net two phrases for us there I have to say hello to MA be joined us in the patron room hello MA be lovely to see you okay next on the list let me take away that alright so next on the list we have a howler if I call something a howler what do I mean I'm usually talking about the goal keeper and a basic error that he has made if he's made a mistake made an error something usually quite basic and it's led to a goal so if this error concedes a goal then you would call it an absolute howler or just a howl I said oh he made a howler or water howler so the example sentence I gave was what a howler he is gonna be very disappointed with that what a howler he is gonna be very disappointed with that obviously I'm referring to the goal keeper now you see I've written here Gunnar which is a contraction of going to or slang for going to please bear in mind that Gunnar is only really spoken it's very relaxed spoken English we wouldn't really write it so don't use this in written English but you will hear it spoken and it's fine for you to say Gunnar it's quite an easy way to speak one last way to speak all right let's jump straight over to the next one so that's howler get stuck in and back on the net what's next man on man on if someone shouts man on you'll often hear this throughout a game someone shouts man on it means a player from the opposition is right behind you so perhaps let's say France and Germany are playing a French player has the ball and a German player comes up right behind him but we're not sure if the French player is aware of how close the German player is and so someone would shout to him man on and they often shout this to say to warm them there's someone right behind you perhaps you should pass the ball so it's a warning telling them to get the ball to safety because there's there's an opposition right behind you okay all right are there any of these phrases so far that you haven't heard before if so please write I didn't know and then which phrase down in the comments box below so I know which phrases are new to you I'm sure if if some of you been watching football where the British commentators for quite a while or English commentators then you will know most of these I'm sure but do let me know it's always interesting okay so Leo has said what a how low was Liverpool's goalkeeper but we're not calling him a howler were calling his mistake a howler so what you would say is what a howler buy or what a howl are made by Liverpool's goalkeeper what a howler made by Liverpool's goalkeeper you can interchange it with a mistake what a what a mistake made by Liverpool's goalkeeper okay all right so Justin hello Justin you said I am more of a rugby person myself fair enough fair enough everyone has their own sport that they absolutely love and yeah rugby is also a good one when it when is the next big rugby like competition when when's that coming up do let me know okay so next on the list and we're smashing through this is a common phrase a game of two halves it's a game of two halves have you heard this before some people find this phrase quite annoying but let me show you a written down a game of two halves basically means that a can change a lot once you enter the second half of play so perhaps one team is doing very well in the first half but then after halftime they come back and suddenly they've just lost it they they play very badly maybe the other side find their find their passion and manage to regain the lead and so you can say look it's a game of two halves it's like saying it's not over til it's over so you can't really call a game halfway through and say yeah Germany's definitely gonna win this because it could all change it's a game of two halves and the example sentence I've written here is Brazil were 3-1 up in the first half but France dominated in the second half bringing it down to a penalty shootout it really has been a game of two halves fabulous I hope that's nice and clear for you now I have covered football before in a live lesson I think around this time last year it was a very long live lesson I know that some of you don't like the very long lessons today's is gonna be very short but if you are interested in learning some more vocabulary it was a more thorough lesson was quite a long time ago so the quality won't be as good as this particular video because my link wasn't as good but the knowledge is still there so if you're interested if you just go onto my video tab and type in football you will find that video from last year of course there are over 350 videos here so if you don't like that one I'm sure there's other things that you might find interesting guys if you do like football then please give me a thumb up and let me know if you don't like football but you do like English then give me a thumb up if you're not ready to subscribe please subscribe and press the balance if occation button so you don't miss any future lessons and if you're feeling super generous today then please please please do click that share button that will really help me out ok let's get on and finish this lesson so what do we have we have they or we were robbed they were robbed we were robbed this is a phrase that means you use it basically when it feels like a game is lost unjustly so a team have lost but you think it's not fair that they lost they didn't deserve to lose they deserved to win and this loss could be due to a bad decision by the ref or it could be due to foul play or perhaps it's just really bad luck maybe someone was injured quite badly and had to go off and I don't know maybe the wind blew the ball I don't know but bad things happen don't they and it's not really anyone's fault but sometimes it will cost someone a game like I always think back to that very famous moment in football the Maradona hand of God moment and that goal was allowed and that went down in history as an unjust win because that shouldn't have been allowed was handball but you know these things happen and some teams are robbed of the victory so you'll often hear they were robbed or we were robbed so the example sentence I've given here just to help bring that home is Germany were robbed tonight all because of a very bad decision when the referee sees the play back he is going to kick himself now this phrase to kick yourself means to to regret what you've done so we often say about someone else they're going to kick themselves or he is kicking himself because he realizes he's done something wrong okay so let me just bring you back up hello let's see what you guys are saying Anna what team do you support for this World Cup apart from England can you really support more than one team really I think what generally happens is I support England until England on knocked out and then what's Englander knocked out it will depend on how the teams are performing I'm very much I just enjoy watching how people compete at an international level and if a team is doing particularly well usually if it's the underdogs the underdogs means the teams that you don't expect to win if you're an underdog you're not the ones expected to do well so normally if I see the underdogs are doing very well you like come on yeah maybe a team that hasn't really won it for a long time or never won the World Cup would be exciting so we'd have to see how it goes but like I said I'm gonna be in Italy so I'm not sure how much of the games I'm going to be able to see okay so let's get finished shall we um I'm going to bring this back up so they were robbed can you think of any examples of a match we're a team were robbed of the win and why so if you can write me a sentence with that information that would be great so often if a goalkeeper does something outstanding to stop a goal from being scored we'd shout what a save or you might say it in a sentence or what to save it it was so good the goalkeeper was really really on top form today what to save that was what us save yeah so an expression for when the goalkeeper does something outstanding to stop a goal from being scored and the last one is quite a fun one again we can use this one outside of football but I often hear it used when watching football matches squeaky bum time I think this is quite a recent phrase to be used I've only been hearing it in recent years I never used to hear it when I was younger and squeaky bum time this is a very formal phrase and it means a nerve-racking time so if there's a time when you're very tense and you're very nervous about what is going to happen you could say it's squeaky bum time now you would only use this phrase if it wasn't if it was a light-hearted time so of course you might be nervous and anxious if your mother goes in for an operation and you're anxious to find out that everything goes okay and that she's going to be fit and healthy in that situation it's a very serious situation you would not use squeaky bum time squeaky bum time is for fun light-hearted situations okay although I have also heard it so perhaps let's say you get pulled over by the police in your car and you possibly were speeding a little bit and you're very very nervous because you think the police have pulled you over because of the speeding and then as the policeman comes to the window and speaks to you you realize that actually he's pulled you over because he just wants to chat about an incident the day before and wonders if you'd seen anything so you're not in trouble and afterwards you might go whoo that was squeaky bum time I was very nervous but that's because there's no there's no serious outcome okay all right so there you go those phrases once again a squeaky bum time what a save they were robbed we were robbed it's a game of two halves man on that was a howler by the goalkeeper come on get stuck in back of the net so I I hope you guys found that helpful what I'm gonna do now is stay around for a few minutes longer just to answer your questions let's try and keep it football related if we can and then I am gonna be away for a couple of weeks of course I'm going to be in Italy but I will be updating and posting regularly on my Instagram page and possibly on Facebook so if you're not following me on Instagram or Facebook then come along there's lots of things to see there besides just my account but on Instagram I do post a lot of 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Length: 20min 27sec (1227 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 15 2018