Podcast 23
Podcast 23
In this week's podcast, Jack and Rich talk about Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) and his older brother Andre Ayew (Swansea City), who became the first brothers to score for opposing teams in the Premier League. The language focus is expressions with 'run' and we have a new riddle in our 'What's my Team?' competition.
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How much did you understand?
"Aston Villa have lost their last 6 matches - they have been on a bad run."
"With time running out (87th minute), Andre Ayew scored the winner."
Yaya and Kolo Toure are the only other brothers to score in the same Premier League match. They both scored for Manchester City against Wolves in a 4-3 win in 2011.
The Neville brothers (Gary and Phil) played nearly 1000 times for Manchester United and have 14 Premier League titles between them.
Rich: Hello my name’s Rich and welcome to this week’s Premier Skills English podcast.
Jack: Hi everyone. I’m Jack and every week we talk about football and help you with your English.
Rich: This week, we’re going to talk about family, the language focus is expressions that use the word ‘run’ and later I’ll make another Premier League prediction.
Jack: And you have another chance to win a Samsung Galaxy tablet in our ‘What’s my Team?’ competition.
Rich: What was the answer to last week’s riddle Jack?
Jack: Ah, yes. Last week it was Tom ... his favourite Premier League team is Manchester Utd.
Rich: We had lots of correct entries so congratulations to everybody who got it right. I think most people who heard Old Trafford and Ryan Giggs would have chosen Man Utd.
Jack: Yes, Giggs never played for any other club and has been at Old Trafford for nearly 30 years as a player and now as Louis van Gaal’s assistant.
Rich: We have selected a winner at random from the correct answers...
Jack: and the fifth winner of the What’s my team? competition is Volodymyr from Ukraine. Congratulations Volodymyr , we’ve already sent you an email and your prize will soon be on its way.
Rich: Well done Volodymyr ! Later on in the podcast, you can listen to this week’s What’s my team riddle.
Rich: Last week, we asked you if there was a river that flows through your town or city.
Jack: And you made a prediction about the Manchester derby. How did you do this time?
Rich: I was close - I got one of the team’s scores right?
Jack: That’s not really close - you predicted a Man United win and the derby was a draw in the end.
Rich: Well, not many people predicted a draw!
Jack: Elghoul from Algeria and Volodomyr, this week’s competition winner both predicted a 2-2 draw. As well as that, Rafael24 from Ecuador, ManH267 from Vietnam, Aragorn 1986 from Montenegro, Dana from Albania, Merko from Serbia, GalaUA from Ukraine all predicted draws and Nokosonris from Ukraine managed to predict the exact result. Well done Nikosonris - Let’s see if you can do as well this week.
Rich: I’m going to do better this week. I learnt quite a few new rivers thanks to comments comments. Rafael24 from Ecuador said the Chibunga River flows through his town in Ecuador, Aragorn96 from Montenegro said the Moraca flows through his town and GalaUA from Ukraine says the Dnieper flows through Kiev - his home town.
Jack: Last week, we were looking at prepositions of movement so it was great to see you all using the preposition ‘through’ in these sentences.
Rich: Later, we’re looking at some expressions with the word ‘run’ so here let’s start the ball rolling and use one expression in some of your examples.
Jack: Instead of saying a river flows through my town you can also say a river runs through my town.
Rich: So, GunnerUZ from Uzbekistan could say the River Anhor runs through his town, and VerdeMead96 from Poland could say the Vistula River runs through her town and Rema from Serbia could say that the Rivers Sava and Danube run through his town.
Rich: There are some famous Rivers in the UK too! The River Thames is probably the most famous, which flows through the middle of London.
Jack: And of course the River Mersey,which runs through Liverpool.
Rich: Sorry if we didn’t have time to mention your comment, but please continue to write your comments and questions in our comments section and we will get back to you.
Jack: Last weekend there was a big win for Arsenal and the Gunners went top of the league for a few hours before Man City went back above them after a goalless draw in the Manchester Derby.
Rich: Yes, defences were definitely on top for a change in that one.
Jack: But, we’re going to talk about the Aston Villa - Swansea City match, which was interesting for a different reason. How many Premier League brothers do you know Rich?
Rich: The Neville brothers, Gary and Phil, played for nearly 10 years together in Man Utd’s defence.
Jack: And Yaya and Kolo Toure played together at Man City and also became the first brothers to score in the same match. But no brothers had scored for different teams until last weekend.
Rich: For the first time in Premier League history, two brothers scored for opposite teams.
Jack: The Ayew brothers have only been playing in the Premier League a couple of months. Jordan is at Villa and Andre is at Swansea.
Rich: And football certainly runs in the family - do you know who their dad is?
Jack: Yes, it’s Abedi Pele, who many football experts think is the greatest African Footballer ever!
Rich: And the Villa-Swansea match was probably one of the few times they have been on different teams because they played together at Marseille in France and, of course, play together for their national team - Ghana!
Jack: And who finished on top?
Rich: It was looking good for Jordan Ayew, the younger brother, when he scored the first goal and it looked like Villa might end their bad run - they hadn’t won since the opening day of the season.
Jack: But Swansea equalised just 6 minutes later and then with time running out, Andre Ayew, the older brother, scored the winning goal!
Rich: Do you think there might be some family arguments?
Jack: No, I don’t think so. After the match Jordan Ayew said there was no problem because they are family.
Rich: That’s good news. I wonder who their dad was supporting!
Jack: We used a few expressions with the word ‘run’ there. The first one was to run in the family.
Rich: If something runs in the family it means that it is something that everybody in the family has like a characteristic or an ability.
Jack: So football ability runs in the Ayew family because Jordan and Andre are Premier League footballers and of course their dad was quite good too!
Rich: I said that Villa are on a bad run. A run means a set of results, so Villa have now lost 6 consecutive matches and are on a very bad run.
Jack: We also said to run out of time. To run out of something means to have nothing left so Villa ran out of time before they could score another goal.
Rich: We’ve put some exercises below to practise these expressions with ‘run’, let us know if these words were new for you.
Jack: Right, I think it’s time for this week’s competition: ‘What’s my Team?’
Rich: Here is what you have to do. Listen to a Premier League fan, who will talk about their favourite team and then write the name of the team in the comments section on the Premier Skills English website.
Jack: And for each of the 20 podcast competitions the lucky winner will receive a fantastic Samsung Galaxy Tablet.
Rich: Right, so this week, our Premier League fan is Kingsley. Listen to Kingsley’’s riddle and try to work out what’s his team?
Kingsley: We’re back in the Premier League this season and hoping to stay here this time. We’ve signed a lot of new players and they’re looking good. We play in very distinctive yellow and black shirts and our nickname is the hornets. Did you know that our club’s president used to be the singer - Elton John, he’s probably our most famous fan!
Jack: Elton John? He sang about The Lion King didn’t he? I have to say, it’s not really my cup of tea! Now, it’s time for your prediction Rich. Let’s see if you can improve on your recent predictions!
Rich: The big match this weekend is Chelsea against Liverpool. Both teams are on a bad run at the moment with Chelsea losing to West Ham last week and in the bottom half of the table and Liverpool drawing too many matches. Liverpool will be hoping to get 90 minutes out of Christian Benteke and Daniel Sturridge in attack for the first time this season. Chelsea really need a win but their top players are not performing at the moment. I think it’ll finish as a draw and neither team will be very happy with the result. Final score: Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool.
Jack: If you’ve got a prediction for these matches let us know in the comments section below.
Rich: But you’ll have to tell us early. Chelsea-Liverpool is the early match on Saturday!
Jack: That’s it for today - we’ve run out of time! Thanks for listening. And don’t forget to write your answers to the competition, your Premier League predictions, and any questions you have about the website or football English in the comments below.
Rich: Don’t forget if you sign in, you can score points to see if you can get your club, your country and your name to the top of our leaderboard.
Jack: Bye for now and enjoy your football.
The answer to last week's 'What's my Team?' competiton was Manchester Utd. Congratulations Volodymyr from Ukraine! Your prize is on its way!
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05/09/2022
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Prediction's from Rich: Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool
05/09/2022 09:06
Arsenal
566
Prediction's from Rich: Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool
05/09/2022
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Where I live, the Garonne runs through the city (Toulouse in France)
05/09/2022 09:05
Arsenal
566
Where I live, the Garonne runs through the city (Toulouse in France)
05/09/2022
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Kingsley's favorite team is Watford...
05/09/2022 09:04
Arsenal
566
Kingsley's favorite team is Watford...
10/06/2021
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WHAT DO YOU THINK
1-Dad and my elder brother are very skillful to repair all sort of tools, machines and electronic devices. Fixing ability run in my family.
2-I'd ran out of time as a reason of unexpected obstacles then I wanted extra time to finish a project.
3-In my opinion last season (2020-2021) my team have been on a worst run.
KİNGSLEY’S TEAM—Watford F.C.
PHRASES
• It doesn't matter being run out of money there is loan facilities at the banks-:)
• I been on a bad run when I participated exams for working-life but at last I started the ball rolling with studying so much.
• With time running out, she/he achieved to beat cancer by an effective treatment.
10/06/2021 11:21
Tottenham Hotspur
5551
WHAT DO YOU THINK
1-Dad and my elder brother are very skillful to repair all sort of tools, machines and electronic devices. Fixing ability run in my family.
2-I'd ran out of time as a reason of unexpected obstacles then I wanted extra time to finish a project.
3-In my opinion last season (2020-2021) my team have been on a worst run.
KİNGSLEY’S TEAM—Watford F.C.
PHRASES
• It doesn't matter being run out of money there is loan facilities at the banks-:)
• I been on a bad run when I participated exams for working-life but at last I started the ball rolling with studying so much.
• With time running out, she/he achieved to beat cancer by an effective treatment.
14/07/2020
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Where I live, in Kharkiv, we have two rivers running through the city : Lopan' and Kharkiv.
14/07/2020 00:17
Liverpool
6559
Where I live, in Kharkiv, we have two rivers running through the city : Lopan' and Kharkiv.
14/07/2020
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Running out of time can prevent anyone from getting their best run.
14/07/2020 00:10
Liverpool
6559
Running out of time can prevent anyone from getting their best run.
14/07/2020
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Love to the wheels surely runs in my family : my son Volodymyr has a second car, I have a few bikes. :-)
14/07/2020 00:08
Liverpool
6559
Love to the wheels surely runs in my family : my son Volodymyr has a second car, I have a few bikes. :-)
06/05/2020
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I usually agree with Rich as I predicted it was a draw as well :)
06/05/2020 07:51
Manchester United
6524
I usually agree with Rich as I predicted it was a draw as well :)
06/05/2020
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Best run under Sir Alex Ferguson when we won 3 Leagues in a row in 2006 , 2007 and 2008 :)
It was really exceptional when we put the icing on the cake by winning the Champions League in Moscow 2008
06/05/2020 07:51
Manchester United
6524
Best run under Sir Alex Ferguson when we won 3 Leagues in a row in 2006 , 2007 and 2008 :)
It was really exceptional when we put the icing on the cake by winning the Champions League in Moscow 2008
06/05/2020
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I ran out of time when I was studying for my final exams but thankfully I managed to pass the exams and succeed :)
06/05/2020 07:48
Manchester United
6524
I ran out of time when I was studying for my final exams but thankfully I managed to pass the exams and succeed :)
06/05/2020
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Yes we have football skills running in our family as I am an attacking midfielder and my brother is a defender :)
06/05/2020 07:45
Manchester United
6524
Yes we have football skills running in our family as I am an attacking midfielder and my brother is a defender :)
05/04/2019
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Kingsley's team is Watford
05/04/2019 23:47
Leeds United
5086
Kingsley's team is Watford
05/12/2018
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Liverpool win.
05/12/2018 08:08
Manchester United
22
Liverpool win.
31/01/2017
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now all is ok
31/01/2017 16:35
Manchester United
684
now all is ok
31/01/2017
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one more try
31/01/2017 16:33
Manchester United
684
one more try
05/04/2016
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The best run was in 1996 when Juventus won the Champions League.
05/04/2016 15:44
Liverpool
3705
The best run was in 1996 when Juventus won the Champions League.
03/03/2016
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Yes I have brothers who they run in my family.
Yes.
Best run is Galatasaray - Arsenal in uef cup final match in 2000
03/03/2016 21:51
Leicester City
1761
Yes I have brothers who they run in my family.
Yes.
Best run is Galatasaray - Arsenal in uef cup final match in 2000
29/02/2016
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h
29/02/2016 13:32
West Ham United
20
h
29/02/2016
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correct answer is FC Watford
29/02/2016 13:31
West Ham United
20
correct answer is FC Watford
17/11/2015
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I was wrong in guessing Kingsley's team
17/11/2015 09:18
Arsenal
2320
I was wrong in guessing Kingsley's team
11/11/2015
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Swansea City
11/11/2015 10:22
Manchester City
79
Swansea City
04/11/2015
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I have the questions to both of you. What you mean Jack when you was talked about Elton John and his song about The Lion King 'that's not really your cup of tea'? I can guess that's you don't like Elton's music. Also I'm not sure in the meaning of Rich's second part of the sentence: Yes, defences were definitely on top 'for a change in that one'. Maybe you think that defenders were good as opposed to the forwards.
04/11/2015 23:43
West Ham United
538
I have the questions to both of you. What you mean Jack when you was talked about Elton John and his song about The Lion King 'that's not really your cup of tea'? I can guess that's you don't like Elton's music. Also I'm not sure in the meaning of Rich's second part of the sentence: Yes, defences were definitely on top 'for a change in that one'. Maybe you think that defenders were good as opposed to the forwards.
05/11/2015
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You're right, when you say 'defences were on top' it means defenders were the better players because they stopped the attacking players from scoring or creating many chances. I also said 'for a change' as there are usually lots of goals in the Manchester Derby, especially in recent seasons. 'Defences were on top' can also be used to say that the match was possibly a little bit boring.
05/11/2015 10:38
Liverpool
594
You're right, when you say 'defences were on top' it means defenders were the better players because they stopped the attacking players from scoring or creating many chances. I also said 'for a change' as there are usually lots of goals in the Manchester Derby, especially in recent seasons. 'Defences were on top' can also be used to say that the match was possibly a little bit boring.
05/11/2015
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Thanks Rich, excellent explanation ;)
05/11/2015 21:26
West Ham United
538
Thanks Rich, excellent explanation ;)
13/11/2015
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I found the meaning of the phrase: It's not really my cup of tea = I don't like it very much. If something isn't your cup of tea then you don't like it.
It's often used with 'really' which acts as a softener.
13/11/2015 08:34
West Ham United
538
I found the meaning of the phrase: It's not really my cup of tea = I don't like it very much. If something isn't your cup of tea then you don't like it.
It's often used with 'really' which acts as a softener.
13/11/2015
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Hi Rema - You're right about 'cup of tea'. I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. I like this phrase because it's a really gentle way of saying you don't like something. You might think 'Ugh, this is horrible' or 'this is really boring', but if you expressed this, you might offend people who love it so instead, you can say 'it's not my cup of tea'. Thanks
13/11/2015 09:02
Arsenal
560
Hi Rema - You're right about 'cup of tea'. I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. I like this phrase because it's a really gentle way of saying you don't like something. You might think 'Ugh, this is horrible' or 'this is really boring', but if you expressed this, you might offend people who love it so instead, you can say 'it's not my cup of tea'. Thanks
15/11/2015
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Like you said in podcast 25 using proverb: 'Better late than never!" (I mean on your reply):) Primarily we could be polite and try to don't offend other people and using this pattern can provide happiness everywhere. Cheers :)
15/11/2015 21:32
West Ham United
538
Like you said in podcast 25 using proverb: 'Better late than never!" (I mean on your reply):) Primarily we could be polite and try to don't offend other people and using this pattern can provide happiness everywhere. Cheers :)
04/11/2015
points
thanks
04/11/2015 04:06
Chelsea
121
thanks
03/11/2015
points
Southampton
03/11/2015 17:49
Manchester City
79
Southampton
03/11/2015
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Kingsley's teamie Watford
03/11/2015 13:26
Manchester United
1
Kingsley's teamie Watford
03/11/2015
points
Watford F.C
03/11/2015 13:10
Manchester United
4779
Watford F.C
03/11/2015
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My first time here. Wish that luck runs through
03/11/2015 10:25
Arsenal
12
My first time here. Wish that luck runs through
03/11/2015
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Welcome to Premier Skills English ObengKojo! Good luck in the competition! Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
03/11/2015 10:52
Liverpool
594
Welcome to Premier Skills English ObengKojo! Good luck in the competition! Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
02/11/2015
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Kingsley’s team is Watford .
02/11/2015 22:48
Manchester United
82
Kingsley’s team is Watford .
02/11/2015
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WATFORD is answer of 'What's my Team?' competition
02/11/2015 22:15
Manchester United
53
WATFORD is answer of 'What's my Team?' competition
02/11/2015
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Watford
02/11/2015 21:11
Chelsea
13
Watford
02/11/2015
points
Competition answer is Watford
02/11/2015 16:54
Liverpool
1
Competition answer is Watford
02/11/2015
points
My answer is Watford!
02/11/2015 14:19
West Ham United
538
My answer is Watford!
02/11/2015
points
Kingesly's favourite team is Watford FC
02/11/2015 12:52
Leicester City
1
Kingesly's favourite team is Watford FC
01/11/2015
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Good evening (it's evening here in Uzbekistan now) Rich! How are doing? I'm so happy to be here and talk about football! I like football and I like English so this site is just for me! I only wonder my comment on this Podcast (23) wasn't approved! Was anything wrong there? I do hope you'll explain the reason.
Anyway I'm so happy that my both clubs Man City and Liverpool won their matches.
01/11/2015 15:16
Manchester City
813
Good evening (it's evening here in Uzbekistan now) Rich! How are doing? I'm so happy to be here and talk about football! I like football and I like English so this site is just for me! I only wonder my comment on this Podcast (23) wasn't approved! Was anything wrong there? I do hope you'll explain the reason.
Anyway I'm so happy that my both clubs Man City and Liverpool won their matches.
01/11/2015
points
Good evening mkoriev! It's just about evening here now, too. Don't worry about your previous comment, it will be approved and published with all the other competition answers on Tuesday when the competition closes. Hope you've enjoyed your football this weekend!
01/11/2015 16:59
Liverpool
594
Good evening mkoriev! It's just about evening here now, too. Don't worry about your previous comment, it will be approved and published with all the other competition answers on Tuesday when the competition closes. Hope you've enjoyed your football this weekend!
02/11/2015
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A huge thanks Rich! I really enjoyed that weekend. Hope all weeks will go on in this way!
02/11/2015 11:45
Manchester City
813
A huge thanks Rich! I really enjoyed that weekend. Hope all weeks will go on in this way!
01/11/2015
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Kingsley team is watford FC. This team succesful against West ham and become the winner these week. 2 - 0
01/11/2015 14:28
Liverpool
29
Kingsley team is watford FC. This team succesful against West ham and become the winner these week. 2 - 0
01/11/2015
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My fans club (Liverpool) won after against Chelsea, congratulation. My prediction for watford is incorret, I gave 1 - 2 for watford vs West ham. The result shown that watford won from West ham 2 - 0. Oh my, great for watford became the winner these week.
01/11/2015 13:55
Liverpool
29
My fans club (Liverpool) won after against Chelsea, congratulation. My prediction for watford is incorret, I gave 1 - 2 for watford vs West ham. The result shown that watford won from West ham 2 - 0. Oh my, great for watford became the winner these week.
01/11/2015
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Fortunately, I was wrong! My warmest congratulations on Liverpool such great victory and Klopp's first success in Premier league!
01/11/2015 13:08
Arsenal
108
Fortunately, I was wrong! My warmest congratulations on Liverpool such great victory and Klopp's first success in Premier league!
01/11/2015
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Kingsley's favourite team is Watford F.C.
01/11/2015 09:16
Manchester United
29
Kingsley's favourite team is Watford F.C.
31/10/2015
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When I listened to this week's riddle on saturday I checked the badges in the top of this page looking for one with yellow and black colors. Then for making sure I looked for Elton John's club and found it was Watford (he even was the club's President!). So this week's answer of the riddle is Watford. (if I'm not wrong)
31/10/2015 21:45
Chelsea
64
When I listened to this week's riddle on saturday I checked the badges in the top of this page looking for one with yellow and black colors. Then for making sure I looked for Elton John's club and found it was Watford (he even was the club's President!). So this week's answer of the riddle is Watford. (if I'm not wrong)
31/10/2015
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My 'What's my Team?' competition answer:
Watford
31/10/2015 21:42
Arsenal
48
My 'What's my Team?' competition answer:
Watford
31/10/2015
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Hello! This week I've been a little late for listening to the podcast. I have too many things to do so I'm always running out of time. I run out of time when working in my projects, when I'm hanging out with my friends and when I'm sharing time with my family, I can't always do all the things I would want; however my life is somehow exciting.
My father is a maths and physics teacher; even if my siblings and I don't teach the same subjects, my father's teaching abilities run in my family. We all are proud of having some of his talent!.
As I've stated before, I wasn't able to listen this week's podcast until friday, but I'm writing this comment late saturday. Even when I listened to Rich's prediction I disagreed with him because I think Jurgen Kloop is a fantastic coach so there was no doubt that Liverpool would be the winner. Sorry Rich, good luck for your next prediction!. (I'm writing what I think is the riddle's answer in other comment so this one could appear sooner.)
31/10/2015 21:39
Chelsea
64
Hello! This week I've been a little late for listening to the podcast. I have too many things to do so I'm always running out of time. I run out of time when working in my projects, when I'm hanging out with my friends and when I'm sharing time with my family, I can't always do all the things I would want; however my life is somehow exciting.
My father is a maths and physics teacher; even if my siblings and I don't teach the same subjects, my father's teaching abilities run in my family. We all are proud of having some of his talent!.
As I've stated before, I wasn't able to listen this week's podcast until friday, but I'm writing this comment late saturday. Even when I listened to Rich's prediction I disagreed with him because I think Jurgen Kloop is a fantastic coach so there was no doubt that Liverpool would be the winner. Sorry Rich, good luck for your next prediction!. (I'm writing what I think is the riddle's answer in other comment so this one could appear sooner.)
01/11/2015
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HI Rafael! I agree with you about Klopp and, as a Liverpool fan, I am very happy that my prediction was incorrect! I really hope that Liverpool can go on a good run now!
01/11/2015 10:52
Liverpool
594
HI Rafael! I agree with you about Klopp and, as a Liverpool fan, I am very happy that my prediction was incorrect! I really hope that Liverpool can go on a good run now!