As we have worked in class, this song is not only a good way to celebrate that we are in love. It also hides a very special calendar, where many events and celebrations along the year are mentioned.

I’ll leave a link to the video, the lyrics and some information about Stevie Wonder. I hope you’ll enjoy it, post your comments about the song or the activity.

About Stevie Wonder (if you are really interested, visit his official website, for some extra information, look at the wikipedia entry)

http://www.steviewonder.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder

If you want to watch Stevie Wonder singing live, click here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY45DkaP9Ls

If you prefer to read the song, there you are.

No new years’s day
To celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact heres just another ordinary day
No april rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding saturday within the month of june
But what it is
Is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summers high
No warm july
No harvest moon to light one tender august night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
No even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No libra sun
No halloween
No giving thanks to all the christmas joy you bring
But what it is
Though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do.

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

Of my heart
Of my heart

No more excuses!

If you feel you need more practise and revision, here you have a list of links that may help you. Besides, you have a general revision link on the side, where you can choose what you’d like to work on.

Modal verbs:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/auxiliary-verbs/exercises

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html

http://www.wordpower.ws/grammar/gramex10.html

Passive voice

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive#exercises

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/passive1.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

Conditionals

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditionalintro.html http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

Reported Speech

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/tm-reported1.html

Hi! recently we’ve been talking about British students taking a gap year before going to university.

Have you ever planned to do something similar? Would you like to? If you had the opportunity, what would you like to do or where would you like to go?

I’d love to read your comments, feel free to post them and share them with your peers!

By the way, if I had taken a gap year, I suppose I would have travelled to England and stayed there for a while and improve my English. Unfortunately, I only had the chance to do so in summer, but it was really worth it!

What about you? I’m looking forward to reading your comments!