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Here you have the lyrics of the song we worked on in class. Have a look and answer these two questions:
1) Do you think the song is sexist? Why? Why not?
2) Girls, what woud you do if you were a boy? Write a conditional sentence
Boys, what would you do if you were a girl? Write a conditional sentence
If I were a Boy
By Beyoncé
If I were a boy even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted
And go drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it
‘Cause they stick up for me
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
‘Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
‘Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone it’s broken
So they’d think that I was sleeping alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
‘Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waiting for me to come home, to come home
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
‘Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
‘Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say it’s just a mistake
Think I’d forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
You thought wrong
But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand
And you don’t understand, oh
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
‘Cause you’re taking her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
But you’re just a boy
The sentence for the exercise is:
If I were a boy I would play football with my friends.
Nice easter!
I think that song is a sexist but real, because if you were a boy you will have a lot of advantatges, because they lives in a “machist” society
If a were a boy I would changed the rules of country, because “the president of spain must be a boy”, so I changed this rule.
If I were a boy I would more help in household chores.
If out a boy was understanding the women
If I were a girl I would try to charge as much as boy doing the same job
If I were a girl, I would fight for equality with men.
(perdon!!!! AHORA SI QUE ES LA CORRECTA, que he tenido un error ortográfico)
If I were a boy would always tracksuit and trainers
In my opinion the song is sexist because it says that the boys and girls have a character depending on their sex. If I were a boy I would behave as I felt and thought in this moment, I would do that liked me etc.
if it is sexist because she just speak of be a boy and all the thing that she could do if she was a boy.
And if I was a girl I don’t know but I think that :
out with a boy and i buy lot of sexy clothes .
this i think buy , but i’m not sure
If a were a boy I wouldn’t wear never heels
If I were a boy wouldn’t wear never heels
I think this song is sexist because it says things like:
-If I were a boy would always Tracksuit and trainers
-How it feels to love a girl. I swear I’d be a better man.
While this is true, but it is sexist, if I was a kid and heard this song, I pose that there are things not worth saying or doing and go from perfect. I love this song and I think it is very pretty.
I thing is sexist because in this song retract a lot of stereotips of boys what isn’t true (casi tos).
mmm….this song is sexist…’cause she talk of the things a boy do.
if i were a boy?
do all the things I Cruse for the mind, for example… go drinking with my friends…be with a differents girls….and more things…
but i don’t know what I would do if it were…
but is true that the mens are diferents in this society….
is the hard reality…
there are more beautiful songs in english.
I think beyoncé is one of the good singers
but rihanna, avril lavigne, Amy Lee, joel Madden, jesse mccartney and others are one of the good singers..
the foro is good idea … good job
1-NOT, because for us it is true that the boys do it.
2-Girlfriend To worry ourselves more for our and they do not become the machito ahead the friends