The one weekend a year when American football gets spammed all over sports pages around the world is over. My favorite team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, lost a close game to the Green Bay Packers, making the Packers the Super Bowl Champions for this year. NRK showed the game live, but it was in the middle of the night Norwegian time. Did you watch any of it? I know people who stayed up to watch the whole thing!
American football is different from what most of the world calls football (also known as association football, or soccer). It's more like rugby, another game that isn't too well-known in Scandinavia. I've been looking for an explanation of American football on the Internet, and believe it or not, the best one I have found has been from the BBC: A Guide to the Basics of American Football and a Guide to the Positions of American Football. The coach who presents both these guides speaks rather fast, so you may need to listen to it a few times before you understand him.
I will comfort myself by remembering that the Steelers have won six Super Bowls, and that is more than any other team!
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Need some help with your Northern Ireland / Terror on the Tube presentations?
The BBC's excellent Newsround service for younger readers and foreign-language English learners has useful information about The Troubles in Northern Ireland and about the July 7th, 2005, terror attacks on the London Underground. Here are the links:
Northern Ireland and The Troubles
The July 7th Attacks
Other links (check back, I will be updating these!):
The Omagh Massacre, the last major incident of The Troubles, carried out by the so-called "Real IRA" just weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was signed
A timeline of the 2005 London Tube bombings from Wikipedia
And a few more...
Symbols used in murals in Northern Ireland, by both Loyalist (Protestant) and Republican (Catholic) groups
Photos of murals in Northern Ireland
And more...
A BBC presentation on the Tube Bombings, including facts about the bombings and about the police investigation that followed.
The blog our "Terror on the Tube" sound file comes from. This is the story of "Rachel", who we met through the sound file on the Tracks website. Here she adds more detail, and uses some words that aren't appropriate in a school textbook!
The Guardian's page on the attacks. The Guardian is a large British newspaper. Here they have collected hundreds of articles about the attacks and the aftermath.
Northern Ireland and The Troubles
The July 7th Attacks
Other links (check back, I will be updating these!):
The Omagh Massacre, the last major incident of The Troubles, carried out by the so-called "Real IRA" just weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was signed
A timeline of the 2005 London Tube bombings from Wikipedia
And a few more...
Symbols used in murals in Northern Ireland, by both Loyalist (Protestant) and Republican (Catholic) groups
Photos of murals in Northern Ireland
And more...
A BBC presentation on the Tube Bombings, including facts about the bombings and about the police investigation that followed.
The blog our "Terror on the Tube" sound file comes from. This is the story of "Rachel", who we met through the sound file on the Tracks website. Here she adds more detail, and uses some words that aren't appropriate in a school textbook!
The Guardian's page on the attacks. The Guardian is a large British newspaper. Here they have collected hundreds of articles about the attacks and the aftermath.
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