Learn English through sport — Tennis, Football, Rugby
These are not coaching manuals — they are CEFR-mapped English programmes built around tennis, football and rugby. Every drill, scenario and review trains real-world English: instructions, tactics, match talk, interviews and travel language. The same dual programme is coached on camp, and the A2–B2 band mirrors the speaking and writing task types used in IELTS and TOEFL.
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Written for parents, coaches, junior football and rugby squads, clubs, academies and schools — see exactly how a session becomes an English lesson, then decide. Each sample shows the CEFR band and the IELTS/TOEFL task type it supports.
Whole squad, club or school? Cohort licensing includes rubrics and reporting.
Opportunity horizon
Japan — a natural market for English through sport
Rugby, tennis and football in Japan all operate with international coaches, touring squads and university clubs that need pitch-side English. The Topball manuals turn that need into a structured, CEFR-mapped learning programme — on court, on pitch and in the classroom.
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Tennis, Football and Rugby — one purchase
Get all three full CEFR A1–C1 programmes for $39 USD instead of $57 separately. One PayPal checkout, one private access link, and all three manuals open together immediately.
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English Through Tennis
A CEFR-mapped English programme built on the tennis court and in the classroom. Every lesson trains listening, instruction, self-commentary and match-talk English while developing the player.
8 parts · 40+ sections · A4 print-ready
▪Part 1 — How the lesson works — The 70-minute session as a language classroom: warm-up calls, theme explanation, live-ball dialogue and the English review.
▪Part 2 — Technical English — The vocabulary of grips, contact points and swing shapes: describing faults, giving corrections and asking for help.
▪Part 3 — Patterns and decisions — Serve +1, return +1, short-ball attack and the drop-shot change-up — spoken through before each ball.
▪Part 4 — Body and recovery language — Movement prep, hydration, injury-prevention routines and explaining how the body feels after play.
▪Part 5 — Match craft and psychology — Score-based talk, routines between points, and the competition debrief in English.
▪Part 6 — English for Specific Purposes on court — The self-commentary, instructions and match-talk used in every session, mapped A1–C1.
▪Appendices — Printable drill cards, a 12-week planner, a tournament diary and CEFR self-assessment rubrics.
Who it is for: Students learning English who play tennis, parents following a programme at home, and coaches who want a structured English-through-sport syllabus.
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English Through Football
A CEFR-mapped English programme built on the pitch and in the classroom. Every session trains pitch-side English, tactical discussion and match talk while the ball is moving.
9 parts · 35+ sections · A4 print-ready
▪Part 1 — The session as English practice — Arrival language, technical block, rondo and game phases — each phase has a language job as well as a football job.
▪Part 2 — Football language by level — A1 to C1 vocabulary and grammar tied to kit, positions, movement, tactics and analysis.
▪Part 3 — Rondo commentary method — How live English commentary is used to force fluency under physical load.
▪Part 4 — Tactical literacy — Pressing, building out, transitions and set pieces explained in learner-graded English.
▪Part 5 — Match-day English — Team talks, referee interaction, post-match interviews and written match reports.
▪Part 6 — Assessment and reporting — CEFR rubrics, parent-facing reports and a camp-week progress record.
▪Appendices — Printable session cards, a rondo language mat, and a 4-week camp planner.
Who it is for: Students learning English who play football, junior clubs and academies in Europe and Asia, and ESL teachers working pitch-side.
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English Through Rugby
A CEFR-mapped English programme built on the pitch and in the classroom. Every session trains call-bank fluency, tactical discussion and welfare language while the contact is controlled.
8 parts · 20+ sections · A4 print-ready
▪Part 1 — The session as English practice — The 75-minute rugby-and-English session, phase by phase, with the language job written on the same card as the rugby job.
▪Part 2 — Rugby language by level — A1–C1 ladder plus the twenty-call core bank and the positional English each role lives in.
▪Part 3 — Breakdown commentary method — Live English commentary at the ruck: the fastest fluency environment in any sport.
▪Part 4 — Tactical literacy — Phase play, territory, exits, defensive systems and set piece in graded English.
▪Part 5 — Match-day and welfare English — Team talks, referee interaction, interviews, and the injury language that protects players.
▪Part 6 — Assessment and reporting — CEFR rubrics for speaking under load, plus parent- and club-facing report templates.
▪Appendices — Session cards, a touchline language mat, a 4-week camp planner and self-assessment sheets.
Who it is for: Students learning English who play rugby, clubs and academies running elite junior squads, and ESL teachers working pitch-side.
Camps, clubs and partner schools licensing a manual for a whole cohort should use the partnership enquiry form instead — licensing includes the rubrics and reporting templates.
From manual to campus
The manual is the programme. The camps are where it is coached.
Topball teaches this curriculum 365 days a year at the Cebu campus, at satellite learning camps in Oxford and Sussex, and online. Students and parents working through the manual at home can join the same programme in person — with IELTS/TOEFL task practice built into every level. Accommodation included on the Cebu retreats.
The manuals teach the English. James Corden-Lloyd's four published books — tennis, English and performance — go deeper, and are all on the Amazon author page.
