Watching a match is the lowest-pressure Malayalam room there is: everyone is looking at the screen and nobody is waiting for you to speak. This is the practical companion to the football class: the vocabulary of matches, players, scores and results, the football words, and the sentences people actually say in a room where a match is on, during it and after it. Then the Kerala specifics: loyal club support, the World Cup allegiances, the seven-a-side tournaments of Malabar, volleyball, athletics and where cricket fits. It ends with the best opener for any stranger at any match. Words and phrases in this class: കളി (kali) – a game, a match ജയിച്ചു (jayichu) – won തോറ്റു (thottu) – lost സമനില (samanila) – a draw ആരാധകർ (aaraadhakar) – fans സ്കോർ എത്രയാണ്? (score ethrayaanu?) – what's the score? ആരാണ് ജയിക്കുന്നത്? (aaraanu jayikkunnathu?) – who's winning? എന്തൊരു ഗോൾ! (enthoru goal!) – what a goal! അത് ഫൗൾ ആയിരുന്നു (athu foul aayirunnu) – that was a foul ഇപ്പോഴും സാധ്യതയുണ്ട് (ippozhum saadhyathayundu) – there's still a chance നല്ല കളിയായിരുന്നു (nalla kaliyaayirunnu) – it was a good match ഭാഗ്യം കൊണ്ട് ജയിച്ചു (bhaagyam kondu jayichu) – won by luck സെവൻസ് (sevens) – Malabar's seven-a-side football In this class: • Match words: won, lost, a draw, the fans • What people say during a match, and after it • Kerala's football culture and the സെവൻസ് • Why a tea-shop television is your best practice room Quizzes below. Dr. Reshmi R Nair — SpeakMalayalam.