Premier Vocabulary is a mini-podcast for you to learn football English one word at a time. We have three different levels for you: easy, medium and hard.

This episode is easy so we’re looking at common football words and phrases. Things you use and need to know to play the game.

Summary

Learn more football vocabulary with Premier Skills English. Each lesson in our Premier Vocabulary section looks at one football word or phrase. This lesson looks at the word goal.

You can find more lessons on the side of this page.

Transcript

Rich: Hello my name’s Rich and welcome to Premier Skills English - Premier Vocabulary.

Jack: Hi there! I’m Jack. We’re here to help you with your football English. Premier Vocabulary is a mini-podcast for you to learn football English one word at a time.

Rich: We have three different levels for you: easy, medium and hard.

Jack: This episode is easy so we’re looking at common football words and phrases; things you use and need to know to play the game.

Rich: The word we are looking at in this episode is goal.

Jack: I am sure all of you know the word goal so we’re going to look at some common collocations that use this word.

Rich: Collocations are words that often go together. Let’s start with the easiest ‘to score a goal’. This is what you want your team to do lots of. Score lots of goals.

Jack: What you don’t want your team to do is concede a goal. This is the opposite of scoring a goal. Your team concedes a goal when the other team scores.

Rich: Another collocation that means the same as to concede a goal is to let in a goal.

Jack: We can say a team let in three goals or conceded three goals. The collocation let in a goal is a bit more negative and is often used to emphasise mistakes by goalkeepers.

Rich: Another common collocation is to disallow or to allow a goal. The referee or VAR disallows or allows goals. Goals might be disallowed for offside or a foul.

Jack: Another collocation is in goal. David De Gea is in goal for United today.

Rich: It means to be playing as the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper is in goal.

Jack: A team scores a winning goal. This is the goal that wins the match for your team.

Rich: For example, if a match is 2-2 and a player scores to make it 3-2 and that’s the final result that player has scored the winning goal.

Jack: There are also some collocations with goal that we use outside of football that can be used to speak about life in general.

Rich: You can have a goal. To have a goal is to have an objective or aim. One goal I have is to visit every continent in the world.

Jack: You might also have study goals or career goals as well as goals in life.

Rich: You might set yourself a goal which means to create a goal or objective for yourself.

Jack: If you have a goal that is not really a plan and is more of a dream you can describe it as a long-term goal.

Rich: You might also have short-term goals for things you want to achieve this week or month for example.

Jack: And that’s the last collocation to achieve our goals. To achieve a goal is to complete a goal we set ourselves successfully.

Rich: OK, we’ve just looked at ten collocations with the word goal. Do you think you have learned all of them? Are you ready to use them?

Jack: Listen again or look back at the transcript on the website and find the ten collocations with goal that we have used.

Rich: There is the final whistle!

Jack: We’ll be back soon with more Premier Vocabulary from Premier Skills English.

Rich: Bye for now and enjoy your football. 

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