It's not soccer.

That doesn't make sense.

Some people going to love this video.

Some people are going toe absolutely hate it.

Today.

We're talking about football, so the World Cup is upon us.

If you're watching this on the day I released this video, it will have already bean a week since it started.

Uh, some of you might be following it very religiously.

Like myself.

I've watched most of the matches so far on some of you might not care at all about football.

However, It's a very big thing in England.

So if any of you are a big fan of football and you're enjoying the World Cup, please do right below and tell me what country you're supporting.

One of the most common conversation starters and one of the most common things in general to talk about it would be football.

So the first thing let's talk about the word football, How do we pronounce it?

Do I pronounce that t in the middle?

Long story short?

No, I don't Football.

There's no T.

We don't say football now.

Some people might.

But the thing is, hardly anybody talks like this.

Most people in the UK you will find them pronouncing this word football.

Now look at my mouth.

Just watch me and try and pronounce it with me if you have the chance.

So bull foot.

So what we're doing is we're cutting the sound out.

Football.

The second syllable ball in this word is quite difficult.

We have something we call a dark l.

So they're two different Els.

I'm not going to explain this now.

It's very, very complicated.

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We're actually creating a new sound.

So if you look at my mouth foot Oh, now my tongue is lifting up towards the top of my mouth and it's curling back on.

I'm creating a very round shape with my mouth football.

Of course, another thing we might have to talk about is the actual tournament that's happening right now, which would be the World Cup.

Almost all of my students have a riel problem with pronouncing this word.

It's because we're going from the Earth sound, which people already find difficult into a dark l sound this l that we just talked about Whoa!

And then, of course, we have the much easier second word, which would be cup Oh, is that vows down their cut?

Ah, lot of my students also have problems with omitting final continents, creating that final sound in the word cup, for example.

Now it's very soft, but you still need to pronounce it, because if you don't, you'll sound like a non native and you won't sound very clear.

So you have to create this very soft world cut.

I'm not actually pronouncing the D at the end of world, so it's becoming World Cup World Cup.

We have this thing called assimilation.

I've made a video about this also, assimilation is when we have two continents.

So a continent at the end of a word and a continent at the beginning off the next word on these two, they don't really agree with each other.

They don't want to be pronounced together.

So what happens is in this situation, the D at the end of world is actually getting pronounced mawr like a G Well, okay, cup World Cup.

So we're kind of creating more of a good shape rather than a.

The reason why is because we want to change the end of that words so that it kind of matches the beginning of the next word.

They joined together.

So instead of being a World Cup, it becomes a connected World Cup.

Let's move on from that and let's talk about some expressions.

So let's say you've just met somebody.

Maybe you want to get a conversation going.

Now listen to my tone, my style.

Everything, really.

Focus in on how I asked this question.

Did you see the match last night?

Did you see the match last night?

Now it's a yes, no question.

If you've watched my videos before, you would know that usually usually in a yes, no question will finish by taking the tone up.

But also something else interesting that's happening is I'm not saying it.

Did you?

I'm saying, Did you?

This is another important part of connected speech, just a few pieces off vocabulary for you.

Now, do you know what an underdog is?

Maybe you could lists, um, underdogs in the comments section below a team or a sportsman in another tournament who is perhaps not as well known for winning as other people or other teams in the tournament.

So, for example, the favorites the most popular teams would be teams like Germany, Brazil, Spain, blah, blah, blah.

We're sick of the same people, winning all the time.

Germany.

So now what we say is everybody loves an underdog.

I certainly dio I've been following Iceland in the World Cup.

They've actually bean very interesting to watch the fact that they managed to draw with Argentina.

I mean, that's crazy.

That's that's a really big achievement for them because they are underdogs.

They're not very famous.

They're not well known for winning.

They don't have any famous players.

They're an underdog.

So let's just talk about the pronunciation of that under dog.

So we have a Schwab in the middle underdog under dog.

If you're having problems with that, just practice going dog dog and then add the first bit underdog underdog.

So we have that Schwab.

But we also have the off sound.

Now.

I hear lots of people pronounce this is underdog because of course I have lots of students who may be studied Morvan, American, English, British, English, We make lots of round shapes with the mouth on this op sound, which is, in a word, like not hot.

If you could pronounce it like that, get that or lift that tongue, create that round shape.

Every time you're going to sound more British people will be impressed.

So try it with the word dog.

Then try and add the dog, the dog, and then add under on top under Doc.

No, our remember that it's not underdog now imagine a match.

Football matches really, really close and you're not sure who's going to win.

Are they gonna win?

Are they gonna win?

Who knows?

It's quite a tough match, right?

Well, there's a great expression, which lots of people say.

For example, I said this the other day when I was sat with my friend watching the match.

I said, I can't call this one.

I can't call this one If you can't call it, that means you can't decide who the winner will be.

You have no idea.

You can't call it.

You can also use this expression in business.

In work in everyday life is just something that you can't predict.

You just don't know the answer.

You're not sure which way it will go on.

Who do you think's going to win this year?

I can't call it.

I'm hoping that England will go far.

I know we're not going to win it, but I'm really rooting for England this year, and I really hope we go far anyway.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

That's me finished for today.

I hope you did learn some useful things, whether you're a football fan or not.

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