21 November 2025

soccer and yatching

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A man joins a soccerfootball team and his new team-matescoéquipiers inform him, “At your first team dinner as the new guy, you will have totu devras give us a talk about sex.”

The evening arrives and he gives a detailed, humorous account of his sex life.

When he got home, his wife asked how the evening went and not wanting to liene voulant pas mentir, but also not wanting to explain exactly what happened, he said, “Oh, I had to make a talk about yachtingla voile.”

His wife thought this a little peculiarun peu étrange but said nothing more and went to sleep.

The next day she bumped intoelle est tombée sur one of his new team-mates at the supermarket and asked, “I heard my husband had to make a speech last night. How did it go?Comment ça s'est passé ?

His mate said smiling, ‘Oh, it was excellent! Your husband is clearly very experienced!’

The wife looked confused and replied to his mate, “Strange, he has only done it twice and the second time he was sick.”


Vocabulary
Soccer team: group playing football
Team-mates: fellow players
Yachting: sailing for pleasure
Peculiar: slightly strange
Grammar
The joke uses reported speech and past simple to recount events.
Reported speech: “I had to make a talk about yachting,” he said → He said he had to make a talk about yachting.
Past simple: “She bumped into him” → describes a completed action.
Synonyms & Alternatives
Soccer: football, footie
Team-mates: colleagues, squad members
Yachting: sailing, boating
Mini Dialogue
Wife: Did you enjoy the dinner?
Husband: It was… different.
Wife: How did it go?
Husband: Let’s just say I talked about sailing.


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