Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by maneuvering the ball into the opposing goal.
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LEARNENGLISH SPORT contains many activities related to football:
magazine articles: Practise your reading skills through articles and do interactive exercises if you want to.
listening: Practise your listening skills with talks, dialogues, poems and stories. You can listen online or downloads MP3 files.
games: Lots of football-related games to help you practise your English and others just for fun!
sportlit: Read stories and poems and discover why "there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet."
trivia: Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about football ...
song: Watch an animated movie as you listen to ' We're Going to Win', a song for kids.
Also, on LearnEnglish Central:
cartoons: "How come the football pitch is a triangle?" See cartoon
"You can't come into my nice clean house!" "No, why not?" "Because ..." See cartoon
"Who are you?" "I'm a big game hunter." "What are you doing here?" "I'm ..." See cartoon
trivia: Person. Alan Mullery: In the 1968 European Football Championships, he became the first England player to be sent off in an international. See more Euro 2004 trivia
science: cubed. Sports sensor: New technology tracks athletes’ performances and allows immediate feedback. Read story
links: Wikipedia: football: See more links
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