Tell the students that they are going to listen to a song called A New Day Has Come.. A new day has come A new day has come I was waiting for so long For a miracle to come Everyone told
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Songs To Study English 1
A NEW DAY HAS COME
by CELINE DION
Grammar: Present Perfect, Past Tenses review
Level: intermediate, upper-intermediate
hold on Tell the students that they are going to listen to a
song called A New Day Has Come The words on the board
were taken from it Be sure that your students understand
them Offer your group to predict this song is about
2 Play the song and then check the general understanding
3 Give out the worksheets Let the students read and ask for the meaning of unknown words Play the song again
and do the first task Students check their answers with their
partners and then the pairs discuss them in an open group
4 Do ex 2
5 Tell your students that the changes between then and now are also implicated into the tenses Ask them what
tenses are used in lines 6 – 13 (Past Simple and Past
Continuous) First, compare them to the lines 24 – 27 (Past
Simple vs Present Simple) Then pay attention to the lines 14 –
23 (Present Simple, Present Continuous and Present Perfect)
Why has the things changed so dramatically? Because ‘a new
day has come’, the girl has met a boy she loves… All the changes referring to the very moment in
present are expressed with a help of The Present Perfect Tense Elicit / explain the meaning and usage
of this tense Ask your students to find one more example of it (I’ve been touched… - Present Perfect Passive).
Lyrics and answers
Ex 1
A new day has come
A new day has come
I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be strong
Hold on and don't shed a tear
Through the darkness and good times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you
Chorus:
Hush, now
I see a light in the sky
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe I've been touched by an angel with love
Let the rain come down and wash away
my tears Let it fill my soul and drown my fears Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has come
A new day has comeWhere there was dark now there's light Where there was pain now there's joy Where there was weakness I found my strength All in the eyes of a boy
A new day has come
Repeat the chorus and fade
Ex 2 Then – now, dark – light, weakness – strength, pain – joy
‘A New Day Has Come’ is the lead
single from Céline Dion's
comeback album A New Day Has
Come, released on March 11,
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by CELINE DION
1 Read the text There are five wrong words in it Listen and correct them.
A new day has come
A new day has come
I was waiting for so long
For a miracle to come
Everyone told me to be weak
Hold on and don't shed a tear
Through the darkness and bad times
I knew I'd make it through
And the world thought I had it all
But I was waiting for you
Chorus:
Hush, now
I see a light in the night
Oh, it's almost blinding me
I can't believe I've been touched by an angel with love
Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has come
A new day has come
Where there was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness I lost my strength
All in the heart of a boy
Chorus.
Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has come
Repeat the chorus and fade
2 Find the opposites in the text.
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make some short stories about this object After listening to
some stories ask if an umbrella can be involved in a love story
2 Give out the worksheets Students should match the
words from the ex 1
3 Explain that these words were taken from a song called
‘Bus Stop’ You may show a picture of an English bus stop (of an
old one is more preferable) Ask students to guess how could
they be joined together What is this song about?
4 Play the song Let the students check their ideas
5 Ask some questions Is their romance over? - No, it
isn’t ‘Someday my name and hers are going to be the same’
How did it all begin? Because of what? - An umbrella So, he
remembers how it all began What verb forms are used? Give
some examples Is refrain about the past or the future? - Mostly
about the past (except for the last line).
5 Ask your students which word is omitted twice Play
the song and let them write in the word would Point that she’d
shop = she would shop
6 Explain / elicit the usage of would for the past habits.
Lyrics and answers
Ex 1 1f, 2d, 3a, 4b, 5c, 6e, 7g
Ex 2
Bus stop, wet day, she's there I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus go, she stays love grows
Under my umbrella
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella we employed it
By August she was mine
{Refrain}
Every morning I would see her waiting at the
stop
Sometimes she'd shop and she would show me
what she bought
All the people stared as if we were both quite
insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the
same
That's the way the whole thing started
Silly, but it's true
Thinking of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queueCame the sun, the ice was melting
No more sheltering, nowNice to think that that umbrellaLed me to a vow
{Refrain}
Repeat the 1st verse
‘Bus Stop’ is a song recorded and
released as a single by the British pop band The Hollies It became a hit in 1966, reaching #5 in the UK Singles Chart It was the Hollies' first US top ten hit, reaching #5 on the Billboard charts in September 1966
It was written by UK songwriter Graham Gouldman, who said the idea for the song had come while
he was riding home from work on
a bus The opening lines were written by his father, playwright Hyme Gouldman
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6) vow f) protected place
7) umbrella g) a thing protecting you against rain or hot sun
2 Listen again What word is omitted twice?
Bus stop, wet day, she's there I say
Please share my umbrella
Bus stop, bus go, she stays love grows
Under my umbrella
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine
That umbrella we employed it
By August she was mine
{Refrain}
Every morning I _ see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shop and she show me what she bought
All the people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same
That's the way the whole thing started
Silly, but it's true
Thinking of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue
Came the sun, the ice was melting
No more sheltering, now
Nice to think that that umbrella
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by SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
1 Tell the students that they are going to listen to a
song based on a (Peruvian) melody called El Condor Pasa
(Flight Of The Condor) Ask them to write out more ‘nature’
words (animals, places, objects) while listening Play the song
Possible answers: sparrow, snail, swan, ground, forest, the
earth…
2 Now, let them practice ex 1 Check the answers
3 Do ex 2 Play the song again
4 Tel the group that this piece has another English
name, which is not a literal translation Ask them to guess it
(If I Could).
5 Ask a question (it might be written on the board),
‘If you could chose how would you rather call it? Would you
remain this name or give another one?’ While answering
elicit the structure (If I could chose) I’d rather call it / I would
call it… (you may also write it as a prompt).
6 Follow up Explain to the students a construction of
the lyrics And ask them to write their own text using
opposites and I’d rather structure.
Lyrics and answers
Ex 1 1) nail, 2) forest, 3) hammer, 4) sparrow, 5)
snail, 6) street
Ex 2 Forest – street, sparrow – snail, hammer –
nail.
Ex 3
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail1 2
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a hammer3 than a nail 4
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world it's saddest sound
Its saddest sound
I'd rather be a forest5 than a street6
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
‘El Cóndor Pasa’ (Flight of the
Condor) is a song from the
zarzuela (Spanish lyric-dramatic genre) El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer
Daniel Alomía Robles written in
1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes
It is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide due to a cover version by
Simon & Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge Over Troubled Water album This cover version is called
El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Paul Simon used the instrumental version of Los Incas as the basic-track and wrote entirely new, unrelated lyrics
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by SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
1 Write the words from the box.
3 Put the words for ex 1 into this text Listen and check.
I'd rather be a 1 than a _2
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather be a _3 than a 4
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world it's saddest sound
Its saddest sound
I'd rather be a 5 than a _6
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would
4 Think of some opposites and try to write a similar poem using I’d rather / If I could / I would.
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HOUSE
by ELTON JOHN
Грамматика и лексика: местоимения this – that (is), these
– those (are); структура a place where…
Level: начальный
♫CD track 4
Teacher’s notes
1 Bring a picture of a house (room) Refresh the
usage of this – that, these – those by showing and naming the
objects
2 Tell your students to concentrate on the beginnings
of the lines and fill in the gaps marked with letters with
proper pronouns Play the song Check the answers
3 Tell your students to concentrate on the endings of
the lines and fill in the gaps marked with numbers with the
words given Play the song First let the students check their
answers with their partners Then check
4 Then let your students practice in showing and
naming some objects using the structure This is a _ / That
is a _ / These are the / Those are the _
5 Follow up Pair / Group work One student thinks of
an object and describes it using where This is a room (place,
thing) where I (eat, sleep, relax) The second student
should guess it
6 You may also elicit the difference between ‘It
belongs to me’ and ‘They belong to me’.
Lyrics and answers
This is my house 1
This is where I live 2
That is the winter
Those are the trees3
I can hear them breathe
This is my bed 4
This is where I sleep5
That was the dark
Those are my dreams
they belong to me
This is my floor6
This is where I lie
This is a square room7
That was a bright light
Thesea are not my eyes
What is my soul?
Where is my tired heart?
Thatb is the question
Where is the answer?
Inside my house And I sit by the window8 And I wish I was rain
I want to fall from the sky
I want to get wet all over the rain 'Cause this is my house9
It belongs to me Inside my head It's all that's left Thisc is my house Thisd is my bed This is where I sleep Thate was the dark Thosef are my dreams They belong to me This is my house This is my house
‘House’ is taken from ‘Made in England’, the twenty-fifth studio
album by English singer/songwriter Elton John (the author of such famous songs as
Nikita, Candle In The Wind, ‘The Lion King’ soundtrack etc),
released in 1995 An interesting peculiarity is that, much unlike his previous works, and with the exception of the title track, all of the album's songs have one-word titles
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Yeah this is my house
This is my house
This is my house This is my house
That is the winter
Those are the 3
I can hear them breathe
This is my 4
This is where I 5
That was the dark
Those are my dreams
they belong to me
This is my _6
This is where I lie
This is a square 7
That was a bright light
a are not my eyes
And I sit by the _8
And I wish I was rain
I want to fall from the sky
I want to get wet all over the rain
This is my house This is my house This is my house Yeah this is my house This is my house This is my house This is my house
Floor, house (*2), live, window, trees, room, bed sleep
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1 Write out and pre-teach / refresh the words and
phrases: honeymoon, bound to be proposal, ordinary guy.
2 Ask your students the following questions The song
is called ‘Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon’ Why do you think
‘lazing’? What do ordinary people do during the week?
3 Now ask the students to listen to the song and say if
the character is ‘an ordinary guy’? Why (not)?
4 Do the worksheet tasks
Lyrics and answers
Ex 1
I go out to work on a Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for Sunny-down,
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
I come from London town, I'm just an ordinary guy,
Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes
‘Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon’ is
a song from ‘A Night at the Opera’
the fourth album by English rock
group Queen, released in
November 1975 At the time of its release, it was the most expensive
album ever recorded A Night at
the Opera has been consistently
voted by the public and cited by music publications as one of Queen's finest works, and has frequently been described as one
of the greatest albums ever recorded
‘Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon’ is
a song by the group singer Mercury He played piano and did all of the vocals The lead vocal was sung in studio, produced through headphones elsewhere in the studio in a tin bucket A microphone picked up the sound from the bucket, which gives it a hollow "megaphone" sound The guitar solo is also reported to have been recorded on the vocal track, as there were no more tracks to record on
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by QUEEN
1 Fill in the gaps.
I go out to work a Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I' be back again before it's time for Sunny-down,
I' be lazing a Sunday afternoon
Bicycling every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to Zoo
I come from London town, I' _ just an ordinary guy,
Fridays I go painting in _ Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing a Saturday night (There he goes again)
I' _ be lazing a Sunday
lazing a Sunday
lazing a Sunday afternoon.
2 Listen to the song and check yourselves.
3 Find the phrasal verbs with the following meanings:
1) Come back
2) Leave (a room)
3) Go or run away _
4) Be born in
On, the, ’m, ’ll, the
‘Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon’ is
a song from ‘A Night at the Opera’
the fourth album by English rock
group Queen, released in
November 1975 At the time of its release, it was the most expensive
album ever recorded A Night at
the Opera has been consistently
voted by the public and cited by music publications as one of Queen's finest works, and has frequently been described as one
of the greatest albums ever recorded
‘Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon’ is
a song by the group singer Mercury He played piano and did all of the vocals The lead vocal was sung in studio, produced through headphones elsewhere in the studio in a tin bucket A microphone picked up the sound from the bucket, which gives it a hollow "megaphone" sound The guitar solo is also reported to have been recorded on the vocal track, as there were no more tracks to record on
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a sad or a happy one Is a narrator happy or sad? Listen to the
song and write out some activities what he’s doing now Play
the song
2 Discuss the students’ answers Give out the
worksheets Ask for any vocabulary difficulties Why is the
room boring? It’s another rainy Sunday afternoon He’s
waiting for his girlfriend She isn’t coming He’s got nothing to
do So, what is he doing? Open the brackets Mind that there
some verbs in different tenses
3 Now, play the song again and let the students
check their answers Pay attention to the spelling (sitting,
stepping) Ask your group to explain these forms.
Lyrics and answers
I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder
I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast
I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder
I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning
around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I'm sitting here
I miss the power
I'd like to go out taking a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tiredPut myself into bedWell, nothing ever happens and I wonder
Isolation is not good for meIsolation I don't want to sit on thelemon-tree
I'm steppin' around in the desert of joyBaby anyhow I'll get another toyAnd everything will happen and you wonder
I wonder how
I wonder whyYesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue skyAnd all that I can see is just another lemon-treeI'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-treeAnd I wonder, wonder
I wonder how
I wonder whyYesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue skyAnd all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree
‘Lemon Tree’ is a song by German
pop band Fool's Garden from the album Dish of the Day, which was
released as a single in 1995 and became a major international hit
in 1996
The band recorded a new version
of the song in prior for their 2009 release High Times - The Best of Fools Garden
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by FOOL’S GARDEN
Open the brackets Write the verbs in correct form The listen and check.
I'm (sit) here in the
I'm _ (hang around)
I'm (wait) for you
But nothing ever
(happen) and I wonder
I'm _ (drive) around in
my car
I'm _ (drive) too fast
I'm _ (drive) too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I'm (wait) for you
But nothing ever
(happen) and I wonder
I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you _ (tell) me
'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow
I'm (sit) here
I miss the power I'd like to go out taking a shower But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired Put myself into bed Well, nothing ever (happen) and I wonder
Isolation is not good for me Isolation I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree
I'm (step) around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy And everything (happen) and you wonder
I wonder how
I wonder why Yesterday you _ (tell) me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree
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heart on the board Tell your students that they are going to
listen to a song Ask them to predict what it will be about
Find out what ‘love’ vocabulary they have Write out these
words
2 Name the song Ask if they know it, what they think
of it Give out the worksheets
3 Offer your students to check if there are the words
you have written out in this song Ask your class to find out
how we call our love(r) Play the song Check the answers We
call our love (My) darling / (My) dear.
4 Give out the worksheets Let your students look
them through and find more ‘love’ words (they may ask any
questions about the vocabulary)
5 Explain that while the second listening they should
fill in the gaps with the proper pronouns and possessive
adjectives Revise them Play the song again
6 Check the answers and let the students complete
Never let me go
You have made my life complete,
And I love you so
Love me tender,
Love me true,
All my dreams fulfilled
For my darling I love you,
And I always will
Love me tender,
Love me long,
Take me to your heart
For it's there where I belong,
And we’ll never part
Love
me
tender,Love me dear,Tell me you are mine
I’ll be yours through all the years,Till the end of time
1 Your 2 Part 5 Always
‘Love Me Tender’ is a song sung
by Elvis Presley, adapted from the tune of ‘Aura Lee’, a sentimental Civil War ballad with music by George R Poulton and words by W.W Fosdick
Presley performed ‘Love Me Tender’ on the
The Ed Sullivan Show 9 September 1956 Soon the single and the movie, Love Me Tender, were released
The song is credited to Presley and Vera Matson, but the principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby (Matson's husband).This song was ranked #437 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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by ELVIS PRESLEY
1 Listen to the song and fill in the gaps.
Love tender, love sweet,
Never let _ go.
have made life complete
And love _ so.
Love tender, love
true
All dreams fulfill.
For _ darling love
And always will.
Love tender, love long,
Take to heart
For ’s there where belong
And ’ll never part.
Love tender, love true
All dreams fulfill.
For _ darling love And always will.
Love _ tender, love _ dear, Tell _ _ are mine
_’ll be _ through all the years Till the end of time.
Love tender, love true
All dreams fulfill.
For _ darling love And always will.
2 Match the opposites.
3 Something not real
4 The symbol of love.