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Your InterCom editor hopes that you are enjoying watching the World Cup. Here are more resources for the international tournament, building on last week's resources (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/25273):

An introduction in Chinese to ten of the teams in this year's tournament: https://www.thechairmansbao.com/2018-world-cup-in-chinese/

An article in English about why Germany has unique soccer vocabulary rather than borrowings from English: http://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-has-a-unique-football-vocabulary/a-44156996

Eleven facts (in English) about the German World Cup team: https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/life/football-world-cup-2018-eleven-facts-about-the-german-national-team

A lesson about the World Cup for English learners, from the British Council: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/world-cup-2018

A short guide to soccer vocabulary in Russian: https://blog.busuu.com/guide-russian-football-vocab/

An article about soccer and European identity: https://daily.jstor.org/soccer-and-european-identity/

Listen to a radio segment in which Andrés Cantor shares the story of his immigration to the United States from Argentina and how he came to be the lead play-by-play soccer announcer for Telemundo: http://latinousa.org/2018/06/13/andrescantor/

A very helpful article for teachers, "9 Ways to Incorporate the World Cup into the WL Class (Even if your year is over)": http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com/9-ways-to-incorporate-the-world-cup-into-the-wl-class-even-if-your-year-is-over/

World Cup videos curated by Larry Ferlazzo: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/06/14/tons-of-videos-about-the-world-cup/

Perfect for increasing global awareness: the World Cup in 33 maps: https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/world-cup/

A podcast in Spanish about soccer-related and World Cup-related vocabulary: https://www.fundeu.es/blog/las-palabras-del-mundial/