EFL dictionary of football on UsingEnglish

Hi Everyone (students and teachers)


Starting tomorrow, UsingEnglish.com will be introducing an A to Z of football vocabulary for people who will be watching and reading about the World Cup. The finished version will be offered on the site and as a PDF later on, but first we would like people’s help as we post it bit by bit. Feedback we would like would include:

• Pointing out which explanations which are inaccurate or not clear
• Suggestions for better explanation
• Example sentences (your own or found online)
• Other things starting with those letters that we should include
• Things that aren’t useful and we should leave out
• Suggestions for other information that we should include, for example grammatical information and typical mistakes

Things we are thinking of including are:

• - People
• - Objects
• - Nicknames
• - Clichés
• - Some cultural information

And anything else that people following football in English might find difficult to understand

Thanks in advance for any help you can give us, and hope you find the dictionary (here and the finished version) both useful and fun

All the best

Alex (regular UsingEnglish.com writer)

PS- this list of links on football for EFL students and teachers might interest you: http://www.usingenglish.com/weblog/archives/000433.html

Thats good for the fans :-)

Looking forward to it. ;-)

Index of football dictionary threads:

A: Football words and expressions beginning with A

B: Football words and expressions beginning with B

C: Football words and expressions beginning with C

The index is a very good idea!

Here's letter D

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post611016

and letters E and F, just up

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post611385

G just added:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post611894

H and I also up.

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post612199

Suprised at the lack of comments, because I keep on finding mistakes and things that are not so clear!

And J,K and L here

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post612532

How about provide a website to watch the World Cup?

M and N now up here:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...tml#post612904