ORACLE NIGHT

Very famous song by Queen. Exercise HERE.

Vocabulary:

Score= Partitura, música

Mindless= Mecánico, sin motivo, sin sentido

Flake= Descascarillarse, desconcharse

Overkill= Exceso, exageración

Bill= Factura, carter, programa (teatral)

Lyrics and translation HERE.

My 1st year ESO students are learning the past of the verb to be. They are also going to learn how to form the past simple of regular verbs and some expressions to refer to past time, for example, YESTERDAY. We are going to learn the song Yesterday, by The Beatles, and later we will record ourselves singing it. Very soon... in this blog!!!!

EXERCISE (Verbs)

KEY:

Yesterday

all my troubles seemed so far away.

Now it looks as though they’re here to stay.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly

I’m not half the man I used to be.

There’s a shadow hanging over me.

Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday

 love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go?
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday

love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believe in yesterday...

Another karaoke version HERE.

Listen to the song above (with subtitles in Spanish) and write the lyrics of Piano Man, by Billy Joel.

PIANO MAN

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________________________shuffles in
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Making love to his tonic and gin

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I'm not really sure how it goes
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And I knew it complete
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Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the _________________
And you've got us feeling alright

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He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be

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As a smile ran away from his face
"______________________________________
If I could get out of this place"

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
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And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
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As the businessmen slowly get stoned
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But it's better than drinking alone

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Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the ____________________
And you've got us feeling alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
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'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
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And the piano sounds like a carnival
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And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say "Man what are you doing here?"

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Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the ___________________________
And you've got us feeling alright

KEY

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