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Songs for Confinement

What song makes you feel positive and brightens your day? Let’s make Easter holidays a little bit more enjoyable by sharing songs we really like (the songs must be in English!)

Steps to follow:

  1. Click on the  + button and create a post.
  2. Write the name of the song and the artist.
  3. Click on the “link” button and copy the Youtube address.
  4. Explain why you like this song & write your name when you finish.
  5. Check other people songs and rate them by giving them stars. If you discover a beautiful song you didn’t know before just leave a comment.

Remember to always be polite!!!

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Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop – Landon Pigg

I. Do you like love stories?

II. Watch the following video and answer the questions:

Where are the boy and the girl?

DAY 1 (up to 1:34)

  1. What does the boy do with the watch?
  2. What does “Maybe I’ve fallen for you” mean?
  3. How does the girl feel?

DAY 2 (up to 2:50)

  1. What things does the boy take? 
  2. What does he do with them?
  3. How does she feel?

DAY 3 (up to the end)

  1. Why does the boy take a bicycle?
  2. What does the girl do?
  3. What message does she leave to the boy?

How does the story end?

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David Bowie’s Obituary

I. Do you know who David Bowie was? Watch this video and fill in the gaps with the missing words:

[thanks to the English Blog for the video and transcript]

II. Now listen to one of David Bowie’s most famous songs and fill in the blanks:

“Heroes”

I, I wish you could_______

Like the dolphins,like dolphins can ________

Though nothing will keep us together

We can ________ them, forever and ever

We can be Heroes, just for one day

I, I will be _______

And you, you will be queen

Though nothing will drive them away

We can_________them, just for one day

We can be Heroes, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)

Standing, by the wall (by the wall)

And the __________ shot above our heads

(over our heads)

And we ________,

as though nothing could fall

(nothing could fall)

And the___________ was on the other side

Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever

Then we could be Heroes,

just for one day

We can be Heroes

We can be Heroes

We can be Heroes

Just for one day

We can be Heroes

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Mad World

MAD WORLD: THE HISTORY OF A SONG

Exercise 1. Read the information and answer the questions:

  • 1982 Roland Orzabal of the British band Tears for Fears wrote Mad World. The Tears for Fears recording reached number three in the UK charts and became the band’s most successful international hit.
  • 2001 The American musician Gary Jules made a version of the song for a film soundtrack. This time, there weren’t any synthesisers or percussion – there was just a piano and a cello. In the UK chart, this version was more successful than the original song.
  • 2006 the song became popular again because of a computer game advert. It reached number one in the download chart.
  1. When did Tears for Fears write Mad World?
  2. Did the original song reach number 1?
  3. Why did Gary Jules make a version?
  4. Which instruments were there in Gary Jules’s version?
  5. Why did the song become popular again in 2006?
  6. Was it successful in the download chart?

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