ENGLISH FCNOBODY EVER LEARNED A LANGUAGE FROM A LIST.
They learn it from something they actually wanted to read. If you follow football, you already read about it every week. English FC just puts the English lesson inside the thing you were going to read anyway.
HOW A LESSON IS BUILT
The same pipeline every time, four times a week. That's why it can be free.
A verified football story from this week — the transfer, the result, the row. Never a made-up textbook scenario.
The same story at A2, B1, B2 and C1. Not a summary and an original: four genuine tellings, each within a length and grammar band for that level.
Every target word gets a CEFR level, a football meaning and an off-the-pitch meaning, then joins the site-wide glossary.
British English audio, my own voice, at three speeds — not a robot reading a screen.
Read, database, listen & fill, word pairs, jumble — all generated from the same story, so the drilling matches the reading.
CHRIS · LINCOLN, UK
Cambridge CELTA since 2001. Native British English speaker, teaching from Bangkok to Lincoln. Liverpool fan, which explains a certain bias in the archive.
Lessons are British English throughout — the accent, the idioms and the football vocabulary you'll actually hear on Match of the Day.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Marquee signing, hard to refuse, drive a hard bargain — football is full of English that belongs in a meeting. Every word is tagged both ways.
Not a textbook set in 2004. Verified, current football — so you can talk about it tonight with people who care.
Read the A2 version, then the B2 version of the same story. You feel the language climbing rather than starting again.