英语口语学习练习 Unit49:The quarter-finals

本单元是关于季决赛的对话

Tim: England are out! We lost on penalties again!
Alice: I'm gutted! I blame Rooney.
Tim: He didn't do nuffink!
Alice: How can you say that? We all saw what he did. The ref had to send him off.
Tim: I still say we was robbed. The ref was far too free and easy with that card.
Alice: You're just looking for a scapegoat.
Tim: No I'm not.
Alice: What about the manager, the skipper, the strikers? Don't you blame them?
Tim: Don't be so rational Alice. We're going back empty-handed and I can't stand it!
Alice: Oh cheer up Tim. We'll be home soon and you and Michal can commiserate with each other - England and Poland out of the World Cup again ... until next time!

Vocabulary:（字汇）

I'm gutted (infomp3al):（非常失望，非正式）
I'm very disappointed

a scapegoat:（替罪羔羊）
a person who is wrongly blamed when something goes wrong

empty-handed:（空手而归）
(often used when talking about competitions) not winning any prizes.

commiserate with someone:（表达同情）
show pity for someone's misfortune or bad luck

本单元语言点是关于足球词汇的，请看下面与足球有关的一些字汇

Football vocabulary

Here is some vocabulary about playing and scoring football. 本节介绍一些与足球有关的一些字汇。

Basics（基本）

a match
two teams playing against each other in a 90-minute game of football

a pitch
the area where footballers play a match

a referee
the person who makes sure that the players follow the rules. Nomp3ally wears a black shirt and shorts, and has a whistle

a linesman (referee's assistant)
the person whose main duty it is to indicate with a flag when the ball has gone out of play, when a player is offside or when a player should take a corner

a goalkeeper
the player in goal who has to stop the ball from crossing the goal-line. The only player who is allowed to handle the ball during open play

an attacker
also called a striker or a forward; a player whose duty it is to score goals, e.g. Samuel Eto'o is an attacker and plays in attack for Barcelona and Cameroon

the skipper
the player who leads a team, also called the captain

a substitute
a player who sits on the bench ready to replace another team-mate on the pitch

a manager
the person in charge of a team and responsible for training, new players and transfers. For example, Alex Ferguson is the manager of Manchester United