How can we use football to teach English?
British Council - Teaching English
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The Language of Football
The Qatar World Cup presents further opportunities for talking about some of those difficult issues or to do issues certainly in the UK. There's a big movement against watching a lot of that or even supporting the England team because of the of Qatar's position towards things like women's rights and sexuality. It's looking at this as an opportunity to talk about issues which are difficult sometimes to talk about in the classroom, but you almost sort of protected it in a way because you're doing it through the medium of football. So I love those kind of things that kind of cross languages and become part of the football discourse as well.
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