EFL dictionary of football on IC4EL

Ic4el.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

Here are some links to ESL sites and lesson plans, etc, related to the World Cup.

Languagecaster.com- English through Football
site for English language learners that is dedicated to football.
http://languagecaster.com/


English soccer boss in World Cup scandal
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1...l_scandal.html

World Cup insured for 9 billion dollars
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1...insurance.html

BBC Learning English football quiz
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quiznet/pdfs/88_football.pdf
Discourse Analysis of a Football Match Report
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/football
Visual ESL.com football vocabulary quiz
http://www.visualesl.com/drag/21.htm
Macmillan Dictionaries football jargon (example text with glossary, from last World Cup- lots of idioms, so quite advanced)
http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/med-magazine/April2006/37-Feature-Football-Jargon.htm
Nana in Ghana talks about football in Africa
http://www.elllo.org/english/0400/440-FootballFactories.htm
Soccer spat- couple arguing about watching football
http://www.elllo.org/english/0400/441-SoccerSpat.htm
Alex talks about soccer in Kenya (short downloadable mp3 and tapescript)
http://www.elllo.org/english/0051/098-Alex-Soccer.htm
Rules of football (short EFL text with online questions)
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-football-soccer.php
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-football-world-cup-south-africa.php
Christiano Ronaldo
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-cristiano-ronaldo.php
Lionel Messi
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading-lionel-messi.php
World Cup conversation questions from TEFLpedia
http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=The_World_Cup_conversation_questio ns
Football conversation questions from TEFLpedia
http://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=Football_conversation_questions
World Cup 2010 English and Numeracy quizzes
http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/the-world-cup-numeracy.html
Argentina's controversial coach (BBC Learning English)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2010/06/100607_witn_maradona.shtml
Lesson plan with quiz, video clip and project idea from ESL Imaginarium blog
http://eslimaginarium.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/esl-world-cup-fever-game-1/#comment-24
World Cup countries and nationalities online quizzes from ESOLcourses.com
http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/countries-and-nationalities.html
Ideas on using the football community site Footbo with EFL learners from Nick's Daily Activities blog
http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/2009/05/learn-english-in-football-community.html

All the best