Calcio - Inglese Britannico e Americano

Leggendo questa lezione capirai perché il gioco del calcio è chiamato sia soccer che football.

Soccer or football?

The sport we know as football is called soccer in American English. Why?

It seems that the American word “soccer” is a slang corruption of the word “assoc”, which is the abbreviation of “association football” (the official name of the sport).

In America, football is the name used to refer to a ball game where players can use both their hands and feet (American football).
The word soccer is not only used in the USA.
Of the 45 FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, Canada, New Zealand and Samoa also use the word “soccer”, while the rest use football.

In Australia, the governing body’s renaming and increased usage of “football” rather than “soccer” (the name used by most Australians) has causd controversy as the word football has traditionally been used to refer to Australian Rules football or rugby league.
In the UK, the sport is known as football (or footie, in informal British English).

In English-speaking countries other than the UK, the word “football” may refer to American football, Australian Rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, or rugby.

Calcio - Grammatica - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to present information in two ways.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to use the “passive voice”.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to a dialogue about a football match.
So let’s start!

Calcio - Grammatica - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to present information in two ways.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to use the “passive voice”.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to a dialogue about a football match.
So let’s start!

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Calcio - Grammatica

Leggendo questa lezione imparerai la costruzione del passivo.

Leggi le frasi e prova a capire come si passa dalla forma attiva (a) alla forma passiva (b):

a) They play football all over the world.

b) Football is played all over the world.

a) Workers founded football teams in the 19th century.

b) Football teams were founded by workers in the 19th century.

Nel passaggio alla forma passiva,

• l’oggetto della forma attiva diventa soggetto della frase passiva
• il soggetto diventa l’agente (chi compie l’azione) introdotto da BY
• il verbo si trasforma, includendo l’ausiliare BE.

play => is played
(simple present => simple present di BE + participio passato)

founded => were founded
(simple past => simple past di BE + participio passato)

• spesso il soggetto della frase attiva, specialmente se non è definito, si può omettere nella frase passiva: They play football all over the world = Football is played all over the world.