Italy's World Cup hopes destroyed: BBC News Review 2022

July 6, 2022



Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup. Neil and Dan teach you how to use language in the news in your everyday English.

The story

For the first time in 60 years, Italy have failed to qualify for the football World Cup finals.

The four-time winners of the competition were held to a nil-nil draw by Sweden in the second leg of their play off in Milan.

Key words and phrases

scathing
strongly criticising

goes ballistic
suddenly becomes very angry

goes begging
is free to be taken

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24 Comments
  1. My brother and i do things together but He always gets way with things and emerge as unscathe on the other hand I have to bear all the scathing attacks what can I do just grin and bear

  2. There are a ton of exercises going begging!

  3. That's the least of our problems but still…it's sad

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    asanchezmoctezuma July 6, 2022 at 3:28 am

    Congratulations for your channel, it is a great help to learn. Greetings from Mexico

  5. If something goes begging, it means that it's free to be taken by anybody who wants it.
    It's kinda opposite of the meaning that you expect.

    So for example there was a party in the office.
    at a different department not ours.
    and they had a lot of food leftover. and that food went begging. didn't it?

    It certainly did. we came down stairs and we were asking "Are those sandwiches going begging? can we?" and they were "Yeah ( )"

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    The above conversation between Neil and Dan
    reminds me of some fruits that went begging a few years ago.

    About five years ago, Fruits farmers in Korea produced too much apples for the same season.
    So the cost for harvesting apples, such as costs for labors, boxing, storing and transporting, was way over the incomes they would get when they sold it which meant the more they sell apples in market the deeper their losses become.
    So they decided All the apples they produced in that season would be going begging.
    All you needed for free apples was just a box.
    You could just collect as much apples as you want within a box.
    and enjoy it.

    Another fruit that went begging was
    Mandarin orange in Jeju island in Korea.
    There are hundreds mandarin farms in Jeju island. Some of them are run by elderly people.
    and there are some abandoned houses where mandarin orange trees grow on their own without caring.
    In both cases, chances are high that you would get mandarin oranges going begging.

    Stolen apples are the sweetest?
    Just getting a box and collect mandarin oranges that goes begging would be another sweetest experience you can enjoy.

  6. Perfect

  7. Hello from Thailand. I hope I can practise my English more than this. Thank you for your teaching.

  8. I am so sorry Italy.

  9. Reply
    Linh Nguyễn Hải July 6, 2022 at 3:28 am

    Miss you.I hope you can edit more video.

  10. Good morning Neil….I always listen to you before starting my work say. ..tks a lot. ..love BBC lessons ❤

  11. Apocalisse!!! The mirror of our country… a complete disaster. 👎 Manager incompetent!

  12. I am really sorry for Gigi Buffon😭😭

  13. Thanks BBC Learning English a lot.

  14. thank you , it is so useful video

  15. Reply
    Sergio Luis Amaya Silva July 6, 2022 at 3:28 am

    Poor Italy. It'll be weird to have a WC without them.

  16. Thank you.

  17. Reply
    Виталий Слонов July 6, 2022 at 3:28 am

    If that bottle of wine goes begging, I'll have it.
    If your dad finds out you've been skipping lessons, he'll go ballistic.
    He was scathing about the report, saying it was inaccurate.
    She spoke scathingly of the poor standard of work done by her predecessor.

  18. What a pity, because Italy is a lovely country.

  19. I am learning new things day after day ,but don't know how to retain all that .I need continuous practice ….What's the best way?Thanks in advance.

  20. Well done, I enjoyed this so much.

  21. What a pity oh buffon

  22. very sad hear the news that italy cannot join the world cup

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