A New Coach
A New Coach
Understanding
At the beginning of the story, the whole team are surprised that their new coach is a woman. What problems do you think women can have when involved in football? Have a look at the list of jobs in football in this activity. Are these jobs available to women? What difficulties might women face in these roles?
Grammar - Possible and Impossible Conditionals
At half-time, Luiza is angry with the team and she uses a conditional sentence to tell the team how angry she is. She uses a sentence to describe something that could happen - it is possible. It is sometimes described as the first conditional. We create the first conditional by using: if + present simple and will + infinitive:
"If you don't listen, you won't play for the team again."
After the match, Filipe understands that he didn't listen to Luiza at the beginning of the match and feels bad about this. He uses a sentence to describe something that didn't happen. This is an impossible conditional because it's about something in the past and is sometimes described as the third conditional. We create the third conditional by using: if + past perfect and would + have + past participle:
"If we'd listened at the beginning, we would have won that match."
Have a go at the activity below to practise more of these types of sentence. If you want to know more, check out the Grammar Pages on our Learn English website.
Vocabulary
"If we can keep possession, we'll win this one."
"Her tactics were great!"
Have a go at the activity below and see if any of the words or expressions are new for you.
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09/06/2022
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What do you think?
In my country women have active roles as athlet,player,referee,manager and director. But number of them have to be more than today
Phrases
• She involved in driving lorry and was very successful. It was another job that available to women. She didn't face any difficulty in this role.
• I paid price for not giving importance to the older people advices.
• If he had care about his health when he was young, he wouldn't has needed treatment so much like this in the old age.
• The person who knows his stuff very best was my primary school teacher.
09/06/2022 16:05
Tottenham Hotspur
5528
What do you think?
In my country women have active roles as athlet,player,referee,manager and director. But number of them have to be more than today
Phrases
• She involved in driving lorry and was very successful. It was another job that available to women. She didn't face any difficulty in this role.
• I paid price for not giving importance to the older people advices.
• If he had care about his health when he was young, he wouldn't has needed treatment so much like this in the old age.
• The person who knows his stuff very best was my primary school teacher.
26/03/2022
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Bruno thinks the woman is not good at coaching a football.
26/03/2022 10:01
Manchester United
738
Bruno thinks the woman is not good at coaching a football.
04/03/2021
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Because normally the football coaches are men (not that I agree with this statement).
Bruno was angry because he prefers a man coaching them and thinks that Luiza might not be that competent.
Nowadays and fortunately, women have beem occuping every position they want.
04/03/2021 15:08
Arsenal
1512
Because normally the football coaches are men (not that I agree with this statement).
Bruno was angry because he prefers a man coaching them and thinks that Luiza might not be that competent.
Nowadays and fortunately, women have beem occuping every position they want.
01/09/2020
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They were surprised because, sometimes people think that women haven't a important role in football. Because longtime football was seen like the men sport. Here in my country ivory coast, there many women in the football in such a way that our women football team played the football world cup one year, this is difficult in Africa. We are even one of the first countries to have a woman as a sports journalist.
In the future it would be interested to see women manage or referee in Premier League.
01/09/2020 20:02
Manchester United
8
They were surprised because, sometimes people think that women haven't a important role in football. Because longtime football was seen like the men sport. Here in my country ivory coast, there many women in the football in such a way that our women football team played the football world cup one year, this is difficult in Africa. We are even one of the first countries to have a woman as a sports journalist.
In the future it would be interested to see women manage or referee in Premier League.
05/07/2020
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Because they think women have no experience in football and it’s bad because that’s a stereotype in lots of countries.
Because he didn’t want to be coached by a woman.
In Turkey , women can join most of the games.
We have already seen a referee in the UEFA super cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
05/07/2020 10:31
Manchester United
6510
Because they think women have no experience in football and it’s bad because that’s a stereotype in lots of countries.
Because he didn’t want to be coached by a woman.
In Turkey , women can join most of the games.
We have already seen a referee in the UEFA super cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
17/06/2020
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Nice
17/06/2020 16:44
Newcastle United
1505
Nice
13/03/2020
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- Because they are unused to see a woman in this profession.
- Because the new coach was a woman .
- women have the same roles as men but they are minority;
- I hope there are more woman in sports in the future;
13/03/2020 19:12
Liverpool
57
- Because they are unused to see a woman in this profession.
- Because the new coach was a woman .
- women have the same roles as men but they are minority;
- I hope there are more woman in sports in the future;
27/05/2019
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1)They were surprised the coach was a woman because usually coaches are men.
2)Bruno was angry because the new coach was a woman and he thought that the best coaches were men.
3)In my country woman can have all the roles, but usually they are players.
4)In my opinion we can see a woman in the premier league, but it is not likely because usually women prefer other jobs.
27/05/2019 23:34
Arsenal
51
1)They were surprised the coach was a woman because usually coaches are men.
2)Bruno was angry because the new coach was a woman and he thought that the best coaches were men.
3)In my country woman can have all the roles, but usually they are players.
4)In my opinion we can see a woman in the premier league, but it is not likely because usually women prefer other jobs.
19/03/2019
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Kolo Toure has the strangest superstitions.
I haven't anything yet.But I noticed my friends who are Man-U's fans that they never wore team's jarsey when we watch our team's match. They told me if they wore our team would be lost.c
19/03/2019 14:49
Manchester United
8
Kolo Toure has the strangest superstitions.
I haven't anything yet.But I noticed my friends who are Man-U's fans that they never wore team's jarsey when we watch our team's match. They told me if they wore our team would be lost.c
19/03/2019
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In my opinion the comic is very interested
19/03/2019 14:37
Manchester United
10
In my opinion the comic is very interested
19/03/2019
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This activity is very good for the fans of the fotbool
19/03/2019 14:35
Manchester United
10
This activity is very good for the fans of the fotbool
26/04/2017
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The team only scores one goal at the beginning of the match then they are three goals behind by the end of the first half, so answer three is technically wrong. If the only choices we have are what is in the quiz then I vote for the one that says they played bad for the whole match!!
26/04/2017 18:56
Everton
317
The team only scores one goal at the beginning of the match then they are three goals behind by the end of the first half, so answer three is technically wrong. If the only choices we have are what is in the quiz then I vote for the one that says they played bad for the whole match!!
26/04/2017
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Hi CaroleAnMarie1
The correct answer is that they played well at the beginning of the first half and in the second half when they listened to Luiza's instructions. They didn't play well for the majority of the first half - after they had taken the lead. The conversation at the beginning of the section that follows the match begins with 'we played much better in the second half'.
Hope that helps,
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
26/04/2017 22:39
Liverpool
594
Hi CaroleAnMarie1
The correct answer is that they played well at the beginning of the first half and in the second half when they listened to Luiza's instructions. They didn't play well for the majority of the first half - after they had taken the lead. The conversation at the beginning of the section that follows the match begins with 'we played much better in the second half'.
Hope that helps,
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
15/06/2016
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The team was surprised probably because they have never seen a woman as a coach and Orlando was with them for a long time.
15/06/2016 08:18
Stoke City
271
The team was surprised probably because they have never seen a woman as a coach and Orlando was with them for a long time.
02/03/2016
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Because they hope their new coach will be a man.
Because he thinks women don't understand football.
Generally they take role as a referee.
Maybe.
02/03/2016 20:46
Leicester City
1761
Because they hope their new coach will be a man.
Because he thinks women don't understand football.
Generally they take role as a referee.
Maybe.
29/01/2016
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Since they deem in a stereotypical way.
Bruno considered this type of occupation belonging to men.
Football players, reporters (but not commentators), physios.
PL manager - doubtful. Refereeing is a possibility.
29/01/2016 17:55
Chelsea
137
Since they deem in a stereotypical way.
Bruno considered this type of occupation belonging to men.
Football players, reporters (but not commentators), physios.
PL manager - doubtful. Refereeing is a possibility.
28/01/2016
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We could maybe see a woman as a referee in the premier league,but not as a manegr for sure
28/01/2016 16:13
Liverpool
12
We could maybe see a woman as a referee in the premier league,but not as a manegr for sure
22/01/2016
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I Algeria we have some women squades and even a national team.There are also women referees but no coaches .In France Clermont recruited a woman as professional coach.
22/01/2016 18:35
Manchester City
3988
I Algeria we have some women squades and even a national team.There are also women referees but no coaches .In France Clermont recruited a woman as professional coach.
22/01/2016
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We are now seeing increasingly more female referees in male football leagues all over the world. And the EPL is no exception. I have already seen female fourth officials and assistant referees at some PL matches. Sooner or later we will see a female referee on the pitch. On the flop side, I don't expect the same trend for a PL managerial role as it gets down to men vs women psychology. But it could be a breakthrough experience for the PL teams some day.
22/01/2016 10:01
Arsenal
2453
We are now seeing increasingly more female referees in male football leagues all over the world. And the EPL is no exception. I have already seen female fourth officials and assistant referees at some PL matches. Sooner or later we will see a female referee on the pitch. On the flop side, I don't expect the same trend for a PL managerial role as it gets down to men vs women psychology. But it could be a breakthrough experience for the PL teams some day.
22/01/2016
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Speaking of the role women have in my country I must admit that we have many female stars of world class. I would mention just a few sports where our Ukrainian girls shine in: swimming, biathlon, rhythmic-sportive gymnastics and athletics.
22/01/2016 09:42
Arsenal
2453
Speaking of the role women have in my country I must admit that we have many female stars of world class. I would mention just a few sports where our Ukrainian girls shine in: swimming, biathlon, rhythmic-sportive gymnastics and athletics.
22/01/2016
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Firstly, the team were surprised because their then-current coach told them that he was leaving. Secondly, they couldn't have thought of a woman being their coach instead of Orlando.
22/01/2016 09:34
Arsenal
2453
Firstly, the team were surprised because their then-current coach told them that he was leaving. Secondly, they couldn't have thought of a woman being their coach instead of Orlando.
21/01/2016
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Of course we can. There are already few women referees in the world of football and there will be even more in the future. Still, I must admit I have never seen a single woman working as a football manager. Probably because you need to apply some experiences that you gained back in the days when you were a player on your current team and somehow it is different at ladies. There are not many hard tackles. But let's wait and see what the future holds.
21/01/2016 21:17
Arsenal
3557
Of course we can. There are already few women referees in the world of football and there will be even more in the future. Still, I must admit I have never seen a single woman working as a football manager. Probably because you need to apply some experiences that you gained back in the days when you were a player on your current team and somehow it is different at ladies. There are not many hard tackles. But let's wait and see what the future holds.
21/01/2016
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There are many women in my country who are very famous esp. handball players since they are among the top 3 national teams in various competitions. In football it is not the case, but I think it depends a lot of the infrastructure and investments in this sport.
21/01/2016 21:09
Arsenal
3557
There are many women in my country who are very famous esp. handball players since they are among the top 3 national teams in various competitions. In football it is not the case, but I think it depends a lot of the infrastructure and investments in this sport.
21/01/2016
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Bruno was angry with no reason. He should have wait and see what the new coach has to say and to try to enforce new tactics.
21/01/2016 21:04
Arsenal
3557
Bruno was angry with no reason. He should have wait and see what the new coach has to say and to try to enforce new tactics.
21/01/2016
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The team was surprised probably because they have never seen a woman as a coach and Orlando was with them for a long time.
21/01/2016 21:01
Arsenal
3557
The team was surprised probably because they have never seen a woman as a coach and Orlando was with them for a long time.