A football academy calls: dream offer or family dilemma?
A football academy director phones a mother with a contract offer for her son; students follow a delicate call, then role-play their own.
C2Adults50 minPhone call
About this lesson
A C2 listening lesson (phone call). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Phone call
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Sports
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Listening (read aloud), Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Word order
- Key words
- scholarship, shattered, to slip, to fall back on, intake, overuse injury, to burn out, a credit to someone
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Understand facts, concerns and reassurances in a sensitive phone call
- Recognize phrases that make honest speech tactful
- Handle a difficult sporting conversation in a role play