Coaching
Coaching
How well do you know football vocabulary?
This Football English lesson presents, practises and tests 10 football words that are related to coaching.
- ball
- drills
- fitness
- formation
- medical
- strategy
- stretching
- tactics
- trainer
- training
Use the activity in the LEARN section to learn 10 words and phrases used to describe different football words.
After you have finished with the learning activity, use the QUIZ to see how much you've learned and to score some points. There are also worksheets you can download to help you learn these football words.
Remember, when you score points, you move up the leaderboard. You can also help your team and your country climb the leaderboard and become Premier Skills English champions!
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17/06/2024
points
great
17/06/2024 09:45
Manchester City
190
great
31/01/2023
points
Not bad
31/01/2023 11:29
Tottenham Hotspur
714
Not bad
23/01/2023
points
Got everything correct!
23/01/2023 10:13
Liverpool
759
Got everything correct!
10/06/2022
points
So good
10/06/2022 13:42
Manchester City
264
So good
05/06/2021
points
Great!
05/06/2021 04:05
Manchester City
493
Great!
20/04/2021
points
Unfortunately, I didn't. But I understood my mistakes.
20/04/2021 15:02
Arsenal
1512
Unfortunately, I didn't. But I understood my mistakes.
16/11/2020
points
Hello everyone!
One of the many very important lesson for me. Thank a lot
16/11/2020 21:01
Liverpool
272
Hello everyone!
One of the many very important lesson for me. Thank a lot
22/06/2020
points
Very good!
22/06/2020 22:09
Newcastle United
1505
Very good!
03/06/2020
points
Nailed it :)
03/06/2020 23:05
Manchester United
6539
Nailed it :)
07/02/2020
points
Hi Jack
I couldn't undestand difference between tactics and strategy. Aren't they same?
Thanks and best regards.Bye.
07/02/2020 15:26
Tottenham Hotspur
5560
Hi Jack
I couldn't undestand difference between tactics and strategy. Aren't they same?
Thanks and best regards.Bye.
11/02/2020
points
Hi Hsn
In most cases, they are the same. If you want to do something difficult, you can come up with a strategy or you could come up with some tactics. Strategy is much more common outside of football and sport. In business, tactics feels less formal than strategy.
I think that strategy is slightly broader than tactics. So a coach might use pressing as a strategy in a general sense, but use specific on the pitch tactics to do this. I use strategy in my work plans to say how I want to achieve something and a tactic is what I am going to do. However, you will find tactics and strategy used in the same way in most articles about football.
I hope that clears things up a bit - sorry I can't give you a nice clear definition of both.
Thanks
Jack - The Premier Skills English team
11/02/2020 10:04
Arsenal
560
Hi Hsn
In most cases, they are the same. If you want to do something difficult, you can come up with a strategy or you could come up with some tactics. Strategy is much more common outside of football and sport. In business, tactics feels less formal than strategy.
I think that strategy is slightly broader than tactics. So a coach might use pressing as a strategy in a general sense, but use specific on the pitch tactics to do this. I use strategy in my work plans to say how I want to achieve something and a tactic is what I am going to do. However, you will find tactics and strategy used in the same way in most articles about football.
I hope that clears things up a bit - sorry I can't give you a nice clear definition of both.
Thanks
Jack - The Premier Skills English team
20/10/2019
points
more important words to learn
20/10/2019 04:03
Liverpool
581
more important words to learn
19/10/2019
points
Very nice activity, more words to learn.
19/10/2019 05:32
Liverpool
581
Very nice activity, more words to learn.
12/10/2019
points
Easy.
12/10/2019 19:29
Manchester City
314
Easy.
22/09/2019
points
Thank you for this fantastic webside!!!
22/09/2019 15:18
Manchester City
71
Thank you for this fantastic webside!!!
06/03/2019
points
easy!!!
06/03/2019 18:52
Tottenham Hotspur
171
easy!!!
14/01/2019
points
I have understood the words of this section, thank you
14/01/2019 23:55
Manchester City
109
I have understood the words of this section, thank you
07/07/2018
points
fantastic
07/07/2018 02:56
Manchester City
95
fantastic
26/05/2018
points
You have some mistakes in the text: Q.7. It should be players, not player. Q.8. It should be weaknesses not weakness. Q.10 It should be professional not professionals. :)
26/05/2018 08:17
Manchester United
823
You have some mistakes in the text: Q.7. It should be players, not player. Q.8. It should be weaknesses not weakness. Q.10 It should be professional not professionals. :)
09/04/2018
points
Fantastic!
09/04/2018 21:36
Liverpool
153
Fantastic!
28/01/2018
points
8 from 10.
28/01/2018 18:48
Liverpool
319
8 from 10.
23/10/2017
points
New words: drill and stretching.
23/10/2017 17:00
Chelsea
297
New words: drill and stretching.
13/08/2017
points
Good
13/08/2017 14:21
Manchester United
24
Good
16/06/2016
points
it's good
16/06/2016 15:29
Manchester City
1734
it's good
23/05/2016
points
Most teams win matches by following the tactics deployed from their manager
23/05/2016 07:45
Manchester United
4779
Most teams win matches by following the tactics deployed from their manager
29/02/2016
points
very useful words: 'strategy' and 'tactic' are the words that I mean in a previous comment (about jobs in football), I used methods and plans. please, what's the difference between (formation) and (training) in general use, because 'formation' in french, is the translation of 'training' in english.
29/02/2016 00:10
Newcastle United
3189
very useful words: 'strategy' and 'tactic' are the words that I mean in a previous comment (about jobs in football), I used methods and plans. please, what's the difference between (formation) and (training) in general use, because 'formation' in french, is the translation of 'training' in english.
29/02/2016
points
In general use, 'formation' is a false friend in French because as you say when it is translated directly it means 'training' but it means something different. Formation is connected to how something is created e.g. ideas or the planets; or can also be used to explain how a group of things or people are arranged like in football or that jet planes fly or soldiers march 'in formation'.
At work or college you do training to improve your skills, just like a footballer does training when he's not playing.
29/02/2016 08:26
Liverpool
594
In general use, 'formation' is a false friend in French because as you say when it is translated directly it means 'training' but it means something different. Formation is connected to how something is created e.g. ideas or the planets; or can also be used to explain how a group of things or people are arranged like in football or that jet planes fly or soldiers march 'in formation'.
At work or college you do training to improve your skills, just like a footballer does training when he's not playing.
29/02/2016
points
a big thanks Rich, I get. You know, it was not fair for my generation: we began learning English in fourth year of high school, so I learnt it for just 4 years before getting my baccalaureate! Just since few years, the government has changed the education strategy, and pupils begin learning English in elementary school, in third class (just like learning French in my generation), so they learn English 4 years in school and 7 years in high school. Thanks God that I was lucky, to have a first good teacher, who made me love his courses. yes, I'm lucky, comparing to the other graduated from my generation.
29/02/2016 12:24
Newcastle United
3189
a big thanks Rich, I get. You know, it was not fair for my generation: we began learning English in fourth year of high school, so I learnt it for just 4 years before getting my baccalaureate! Just since few years, the government has changed the education strategy, and pupils begin learning English in elementary school, in third class (just like learning French in my generation), so they learn English 4 years in school and 7 years in high school. Thanks God that I was lucky, to have a first good teacher, who made me love his courses. yes, I'm lucky, comparing to the other graduated from my generation.
13/01/2016
points
ohlala
13/01/2016 07:22
Chelsea
260
ohlala
12/08/2017
points
how can you earn the point ??
tell me please
12/08/2017 18:23
Manchester City
4
how can you earn the point ??
tell me please
12/08/2017
points
Hi NghiaBui
Thanks for your message. You can collect points by writing comments and completing quizzes on different articles. At the moment we are having a few technical problems with the points for quizzes so you can only earn points for comments. It should be fixed soon!
It's great to have you on our website! I hope you like it!
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
12/08/2017 21:42
Liverpool
594
Hi NghiaBui
Thanks for your message. You can collect points by writing comments and completing quizzes on different articles. At the moment we are having a few technical problems with the points for quizzes so you can only earn points for comments. It should be fixed soon!
It's great to have you on our website! I hope you like it!
Rich - The Premier Skills English Team
04/01/2016
points
Thanks for information about the ball. And the vocabulary, too. Now I know the new words: drills, tactic, formation and stretching.
04/01/2016 09:18
Liverpool
271
Thanks for information about the ball. And the vocabulary, too. Now I know the new words: drills, tactic, formation and stretching.
09/12/2015
points
thank you : ))
09/12/2015 10:05
Manchester City
352
thank you : ))
16/11/2015
points
Learned in interesting word 'drills'.
16/11/2015 14:19
Arsenal
2453
Learned in interesting word 'drills'.
14/11/2015
points
I've known news about a Premier League ball. it is interesting. I've done everything correctly. Thank you.
14/11/2015 12:52
Chelsea
279
I've known news about a Premier League ball. it is interesting. I've done everything correctly. Thank you.
25/10/2015
points
Everything right!
25/10/2015 11:36
Arsenal
3557
Everything right!
20/10/2015
points
Quite easy quiz. I would need help in football rules and refeering.
20/10/2015 14:59
Manchester City
3988
Quite easy quiz. I would need help in football rules and refeering.
17/10/2015
points
nicee
17/10/2015 09:31
Manchester City
250
nicee
22/09/2015
points
Good quiz
22/09/2015 10:06
Chelsea
1814
Good quiz
18/09/2015
points
eight from ten not bat at all
18/09/2015 18:47
Tottenham Hotspur
241
eight from ten not bat at all
17/09/2015
points
Basic words are always necessary
17/09/2015 03:59
Chelsea
44
Basic words are always necessary
11/09/2015
points
i did very fine, i learned few new words
11/09/2015 18:12
Manchester United
68
i did very fine, i learned few new words
15/08/2015
points
Full Marks
15/08/2015 16:38
Liverpool
0
Full Marks
15/08/2015
points
It's really exciting to learn more new words here.
15/08/2015 16:33
Liverpool
0
It's really exciting to learn more new words here.
21/04/2015
points
thank you
21/04/2015 08:32
Manchester United
0
thank you
21/04/2015
points
it is really exciting to learn more new words
21/04/2015 08:28
Manchester United
0
it is really exciting to learn more new words
11/03/2015
points
10/10
11/03/2015 18:17
Arsenal
2
10/10
03/01/2015
points
I have used special strategy which enabled me to win ten points. ^_^
strategy , tactics ^_^
03/01/2015 11:09
Manchester City
0
I have used special strategy which enabled me to win ten points. ^_^
strategy , tactics ^_^
27/06/2014
points
Full Marks
27/06/2014 19:10
Manchester United
0
Full Marks
17/06/2014
points
Did great, and learned actual meanings of some words.
17/06/2014 05:34
Chelsea
0
Did great, and learned actual meanings of some words.