I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

Hi,

This is the song we listened to in class the other day, maybe you felt like singing along in class ;-) Well, this is your opportunity, get the activity we did in class so you have the lyrics and watch the video.

Pay attention to how he pronounces the words and enjoy the song!!!!

Time to sing!!!!

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I am what I am - Gloria Gaynor

1. Watch the video and listen to Gloria Gaynor singing I am what I am.

2. Now listen again and complete the blanks with a word from the list. 

Listen to the song twice and try to fill in all the blanks.

 strong     needs (x2)     think      true     sometimes (x2)     want     open     somebody     see 

I am what I am
I don't want praise I don't (1)________ pity
I bang my own drum
Some (2)________ it's noise I think it's pretty
And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle
Why not try to (3)________  things from a different angle
Your life is a shame
Do you can shout out I am what I am
Do you can shout out I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am (4)________  no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the aces (5)________  the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to (6)________  up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am
I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am (7)________  no excuses
I deal my own deck sometimes the aces (8)________  the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to (9)________  up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am I am (10)________ 
I am I am strong
I am I am somebody
I am I do belong 
I am I do belong 

I am I am useful
I am I am (11)________ 
I am I am worthy
I am as good as you
I am as good as you

I am I am good
I am I am strong
I am I am (12)________ 
I am I do belong

2. Now check your answers in this video where you can read the lyrics.

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When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to some people answering the question:

When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to Pharrell Williams' song Happy. Do you like it? Does it make you happy?

What makes you happy?

Tell me in a comment :-D

Enrique Iglesias

In unit 9 we've talked about lives and we did a listening about Enrique Iglesias' life. Below you can read some information about him and you will find the videos of some of his hits.

Tell me, do you like him? Do you like his music?

Born in Spain in 1975, Enrique Iglesias is the son of popular Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. Iglesias grew up largely in Miami and began singing as a teenager. He released his self-titled debut album in 1995 and, like his subsequent studio works, proved to be a huge success. By early 2012, Iglesias had sold more than 60 million records worldwide. His most successful songs include "Bailamos," "Rhythm Divine," "Be With You," "Escape," "Maybe," "Don't Turn Off The Lights" and "Hero."

Enrique Iglesias was born Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler in Madrid, Spain, on May 8, 1975. The youngest of three children, Iglesias is the son of popular Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, and Isabel Preysler, a well-known Madrid socialite.

Following the kidnapping of his grandfather, Iglesias was sent to Miami to live with his father due to security concerns. Because of his father's intense touring schedule, much of Iglesias's parenting came from his nanny, Elvira Olivares, to whom he later dedicated his first album.

By the time he was a teenager, Iglesias had started to follow in his father's footsteps. His first live performance came in a production of Hello, Dolly! at his school, the prestigious Gulliver Private School in Miami. From there, he started writing and performing songs at various Miami restaurants with a small group of friends, all of which he kept secret from his parents.

"It's not like I was looking for a record deal then," Iglesias later said. "I did it because I loved it. I never told anyone. For me it was a getaway to sing, one of those things I didn’t want anyone to screw up."

After graduating from high school, Iglesias enrolled at the University of Miami, where he intended to study business. But the world of music kept calling to him, and after just a year of college, he dropped out.

Source: www.biography.com

Hero

Escape

Bailando

My favourite Christmas songs

1. Santa Claus is coming to town, Bruce Springsteen

2. All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey

3. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Michael Bublé

4. Last Christmas, Wham!

What is your favorite Christmas song???

Let me know in a comment ;-)

Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Listen to the song and put the verbs in the correct verb tense past simple or past continuous.

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night

Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall

She sees the bartender in a pool of blood

Cries out "My God they killed them all"

Here comes the story of the Hurricane

The man the authorities (1)__________ to blame (COME)

For something that he never done

(2)__________ him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been (PUT)

The champion of the world.

Three bodies lying there does Patty see

And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously

"I didn't do it" he says and he throws up his hands

"I (3)__________ only the register I hope you understand (ROB)

I (4)__________ them leaving" he says and he stops (SEE)

"One of us had better call up the cops"

And so Patty calls the cops

And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing

In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile far away in another part of town

Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around

Number one contender for the middleweight crown

(5)__________ no idea what kind of shit was about to go down (HAVE)

When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road

Just like the time before and the time before that

In Patterson that's just the way things go

If you're black you might as well not shown up on the street

'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the corps

Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around

He (6)__________ "I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights (SAY)

They (7)__________ into a white car with out-of-state plates" (JUMP)

And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head

Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"

So they (8)__________ him to the infirmary (TAKE)

And though this man could hardly see

They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in

Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs

The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye

Says "What do you bring him in here for ? He ain't the guy !"

Yes here comes the story of the Hurricane

The man the authorities (9)__________ to blame (COME)

For something that he never done

(10)__________ in a prison cell but one time he could-a been (PUT)

The champion of the world.

Four months later the ghettos are in flame

Rubin's in South America fighting for his name

While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game

And the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame

"Remember that murder that (11)__________ in a bar ?" (HAPPEN)

"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"

"You think you'd like to play ball with the law ?"

"Think it might-a been that fighter you (12)__________ running that night ?" (SEE)

"Don't forget that you are white".

Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure"

Cops said "A boy like you (13)__________ use a break (CAN)

We got you for the motel job and we're talking to your friend Bello

Now you don't want to have to go back to jail be a nice fellow

You'll be doing society a favour

That son of a bitch is brave and getting braver

We want to put his ass in stir

We want to pin this triple murder on him

He ain't no Gentleman Jim".

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch

But he never (14)__________ like to talk about it all that much (DO)

It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay

And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way

Up to some paradise

Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice

And ride a horse along a trail

But then they (15)__________ him to the jailhouse (TAKE)

Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards (16)__________ marked in advance (BE)

The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance

The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums

To the white folks who (17)__________ he was a revolutionary bum (WATCH)

And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger

No one doubted that he pulled the trigger

And though they could not produce the gun

The DA said he was the one who did the deed

And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried

The crime was murder 'one' guess who testified

Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied

And the newspapers they all (18)__________ along for the ride (GO)

How can the life of such a man

Be in the palm of some fool's hand?

To see him obviously framed

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land

Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties

Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise

While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell

An innocent man in a living hell

That's the story of the Hurricane

But it won't be over till they clear his name

And give him back the time he's done

Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been

The champion of the world

ANSWER KEY:

1. came 2. put 3. was (only) robbing 4. saw 5. had 6. said 7. jumped 8. took 9. came 10. put 11. happened 12. saw 13. could 14. did 15. took 16. were 17. watched 18. went

We are family, Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge, We are family

Listen to the song and complete the lyrics with the missing sentences.

MISSING SENTENCES:

A. (WE!) no we don't get depressed

B. (ALL) all of the people around us they say

C. We're giving love in a family dose

D. This is our family Jewel

E. Everyone can see we're together

[Chorus]
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up everybody and sing

1. __________________
As we walk on by
(FLY!) and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won't tell no lie
2. __________________
Can they be that close?
Just let me state for the record
3. __________________

[Chorus:Repeat x2]

Living life is fun and we've just begun
To get our share of the world's delights
(HIGH!) high hopes we have for our future
And our goal is in sight
4. __________________
Here's what we call our golden rule
Have faith in you and the things you do
You won't go wrong
5. __________________

[Chorus:Repeat x3]

ANSWER KEY: 

1. E

2. B

3. C

4. A

5. D