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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