INGLÉS
Yesterday - by 1º ESO B
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PIANO MAN by Billy Joel
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
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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
YESTERDAY
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.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
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.
FAMELAB
FameLab is an exciting competition to find the new voices of science and engineering across the world.
FameLab was started in 2005 in the UK by Cheltenham Science Festival and has quickly become established as a model for successfully identifying, training and mentoring scientists and engineers to share their enthusiasm for their subjects with the public. Working in partnership with the British Council this global competition has already seen more than 5000 young scientists and engineers participating in over 23 different countries from Hong Kong to South Africa, USA to Egypt.
"The Funeral" Band of Horses
"The Funeral" is the first single taken from Band of Horses’ debut album Everything All the Time, which was released on March 21, 2006. The song was released as a radio and video single in May 2006 in the US.
The story in the music video for "The Funeral" is open to interpretation. On the surface it tells the story of a man whose dog has died. The black dog may symbolise depression. Saddened by his loss, the man drowns his sorrows in alcohol. He then drives under the influence and the end of the video suggests he crashes head-on into a delivery truck. Based on the style of cars in the video and the elevated railroad, it may be set in the 1970s and possibly in Chicago, as one scene shows a sign for the Galway Bay Bar, an Irish pub located in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood.
EXERCISE HERE
KEY HERE
"THE DEVIL IS ON THE ROOF" (MOONDOGS BLUES PARTY)
MOONDOGS BLUES PARTY - AN AMAZING GALICIAN BAND.
Click HERE to find out more about them.
On top, the clip The Devil is on the Roof, from their CD Thirty Roads.
"WINE WORDS"
We live in Monterrei Valley (Ourense), an area where wine growing is one of the most important sources of economic wealth. Different activities (initiated by the team of teachers responsible for the school library) related to the "world of wine" have been carried out with several groups of students. My group 1st ESO B have drawn and read the fable The Fox and the Grapes, and learnt vocabulary related to wine, as you can see in the video above.
Thank you Cristina!!!!
SUPERBRITÁNICO (THE FUNNIEST SPANISH-ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS)
Superbritánico on facebook.
(Thank you, Cristina!!!!)
Other hilarious translations (from Chinese into English) HERE.
(Thank you, Mª José!!!)
SMILE!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
1 ESO B - THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
Click HERE to go to our previous post on The Fox and the Grapes, a task we have already finished.
Rosalía de Castro in Ireland
Children and teachers from St. Mary's School at Mullaghbawn (Northern Ireland) recite Goodbye Rivers, Goodbye Springs, by Rosalía de Castro
"Lemon Tree" by 1 ESO B - IES Taboada Chivite
Thank you David Rguez. Rivada (piano) and thank you very much Javier Rguez (cameraman, editor) for your excellent (and hard) work.
Click HERE as well.
The Fox and the Grapes
In groups we are drawing this fable by Aesop. Click HERE.
After drawing it, we’re going to read it and record ourselves as we read.
Last step: a video with our voices and drawings.
CREEP - RADIOHEAD
Listen to the song Creep (1) by Radiohead (2) and do THESE EXERCISES.
(1) "Creep" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. Radiohead released "Creep" as their debut single in 1992, and it later appeared on their first album, Pablo Honey (1993). During its initial release, "Creep" was not a chart success. However, upon re-release in 1993, it became a worldwide hit. Attendees of Radiohead’s early gigs often exhibited little interest in the band’s other songs, causing the band to react against "Creep" and play it less often during the mid-to-late 1990s. "Creep" tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks the self-confidence to face her.
(2) Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass), Phil Selway (drums, percussion) and Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals).
ZOMBIE - THE CRANBERRIES
"Zombie" is a protest song by the Irish rock band The Cranberries (1).It was released in September 1994 as the lead single from the album No Need to Argue. The song was written by Dolores O’Riordan, the singer of the band, and reached No. 1 on the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany.
It was written during the Cranberries’ English Tour in 1993, in memory of two boys, who were killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington.
(1) The Irish rock band The Cranberries was very successful in the 1990’s. “Zombie”, their best-known song, was released in 1994 on the album “No Need To Argue”, and won “Best Song” at the 1995 MTV Awards. About the political-religious conflict in Northern Ireland, it was written in memory of Jonathan Ball, aged 3, and Tim Parry, aged 12, killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington in 1993. It refers to the 1916 Easter Rising when Irish nationalists occupied Dublin’s G.P.O. (post office) as a protest against British occupation, proclaiming an Independent Irish Republic. The Rising was crushed by the British who executed its leaders. “The Troubles” were a feature of 20th Century Ireland, but in May 2007 there was hope for a peaceful future, when a new Assembly with representatives from both sides of the divide began governing Northern Ireland.
11 UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS FROM OTHER CULTURES
1st year ESO - Test (Ref)
LEMON TREE
Soon you will be able to watch my 1st year ESO B students singing "The Lemon Tree".
Click HERE.
(Instrumental) karaoke HERE.