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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 03
Section 5 - Your turn
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Section 5 is based on 'Your Turn'. It helps you to listen and understand people giving their opinions.
Suggestion: Look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In ‘Your Turn’ you heard 5 people answer this question: Why don’t more people watch women’s football? What do you think?
Here are some things that people mentioned.
• Men aren’t interested in watching women playing football.
• In most countries football is seen as a ‘man’s sport’.
• Lots of girls play football at school.
• Women’s football isn’t as violent as men’s football
• Most people don’t know about women’s football – there’s no advertising.
• There isn’t a proper professional women’s league
• Women’s football isn’t as good as men’s football.
Which ones do you agree with? Write down your opinion – ‘Why don’t more people watch women’s football?’ Go to the bottom of the page to write your text.
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Transcript
Tess: Now it’s time for ‘Your turn’. In this part of the show, we go outside to find out what people think. And today we’re going to stay on the subject of football. We’ve just heard about the World Cup in 2010, but how many people know about another World Cup in 2007? - the women’s world cup. Do you watch women’s football? Or maybe play it? Do you like it? Is it better than men’s football? Why don’t more people watch or play women’s football? Why is men’s football so much more popular than women’s football? So here’s the question for today ‘Why don’t more people watch women’s football’?
Ravi: Good question Tess. ‘Why don’t more people watch women’s football’? Let’s listen to the answers.
Voice 1: Well, I don’t watch women’s football because I don’t like football, and that’s that. All the football fans I know are men – so of course they like to watch men play. They’d only want to watch women if they were, you know, attractive - wearing little tight T-shirts and very small shorts – that’s most men’s attitude. I can’t understand why women want to play football anyway, it’s a ridiculous game – don’t they have anything better to do with their time?
Voice 2: I think it’s just traditional in a lot of countries that football is a man’s game. I used to play ‘football’ – we call it soccer - at home in the States actually. It’s really big there - girls and boys play together at school. There are about 7 million women who play regularly in the States. I think it’s because your football is quite new as a sport in the States so we don’t really see it as a man’s game – we don’t have the same tradition. It’s a game for everybody.
Voice 3: I love watching women’s football. I play at school, lots of girls do. My mum says I’m football crazy. I’m in the school team and I want to play professionally one day. Girls play better than boys – they don’t lie down on the ground and cry and pretend they’re hurt and they don’t argue with the referee all the time. And they aren’t violent, they don’t try to hurt each other.
Voice 4: People don’t watch it because they don’t know about it. Lots of girls and women play football nowadays – the problem is getting people to pay to watch it. We need to take women’s football more seriously, we need advertising and companies to sponsor games and teams, we need a proper professional women’s league with good pay and conditions, we need to see more games on television, then people might be more interested.
Voice 5: People don’t watch it because it isn’t very good – it’s as simple as that. I’ve watched some women’s football, and to be honest, they don’t play very well. They’re slower than men - they aren’t as good technically, the games are boring. Men’s football is good to watch, women’s isn’t. Maybe that‘ll change in the future, but at the moment, well, I certainly don’t want to watch it.
Tess: Interesting. What do you think Ravi?
Ravi: Well, to be honest, I’ve never watched a women’s football game, but now I think I will – just to see what it’s like.
Tess: Me too. I agree. And what about you? Do you have an opinion about this question? We’d love to know what you think. ‘Why don’t more people watch women’s football?’ Or do you have an idea for a different question that we could ask on Your Turn.
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