Serie A: First Predictions for the New Season's Opening Matchday
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Serie A is the top football league in Italy. A new season will start soon. It is the 2026/27 season.
A sports website called Gazzetta wrote about the first matchday. A matchday is when all teams play their games. The article gives early ideas about team lineups.
A lineup is the list of players who start a game. The website made predictions for these lineups. A prediction is a guess about the future.
The article is part of a special page called 'Allora! Sport'. It talks about football news every day.
Fans like to read these predictions before the season starts. They want to know which players will play first.
The real season has not started yet. So these are only early guesses, not final facts.
Vocabulary5 words
- matchday
- a day when many football games happen
- lineups
- the players who start a game
- predictions
- guesses about what will happen
- season
- the months when a sport is played
- league
- a group of teams that play against each other
Quiz
Answer key
1. A football league in Italy 2. Predictions for the first matchday lineups 3. False
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Serie A is the top football _____ in Italy. A new _____ will start soon. It is the 2026/27 season.
A sports website called Gazzetta wrote about the first _____. The article gives early ideas about team _____.
A lineup is the list of _____ who start a game. The website made _____ for these lineups.
The article is part of a special page called 'Allora! Sport'. It talks about football _____ every day.
_____ like to read these predictions before the season starts.
The real season has not started yet. So these are only early _____, not final facts.