Period 5 / Integrated skills
- referee – person who controls the game
- striker – player whose main job is scoring goals
- challenge – attempt to get the ball from another player
- defend – try to stop the other team from scoring
- attack – attempt to score a goal
- equaliser – goal that makes the scores level
- show the red card – send a player off the pitch
Vocabulary/Language study
- infuriated – made very angry
- distribute – send to different places
- outweigh – be more important than
Grammar: wish and regret
- I wish I’d listened to his advice.
- I wish we hadn’t been so confident.
- They regret paying so much for him.
- He regrets not working harder.
- He wishes he’d passed / He regrets not passing the ball when he had the chance.
Grammar: should(n’t) have + past participle
- The referee made two mistakes: he should have sent the City captain off in the first half, but he shouldn’t have sent the United defender off in the second half.
- Example: He should have chosen basketball.
- When we say should have and shouldn’t have, the word should has a strong stress. All the words in the phrase are joined together, and have is pronounced like the e in ‘broken’, not like the a in ‘man’.
Prefixes: over- and under-
- I think football players are overpaid.
- A nurse’s work is hard and useful, but their salaries are low. I think they’re underpaid.
- He’s angry because he thinks he’s underpaid for the work he does.