Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn

Call your girlfriendIt's time you had the talkGive your reasonsSay it's not her faultBut you just met somebody newTell her not to get upsetSecond-guessing everything you said and doneAnd then when she gets upsetTell her how you never meant to hurt no oneThen you tell her that the only way her heart will mendIs when she learns to love againAnd it won't make sense right now but you're still her friendAnd then you let her down easyCall your girlfriendIt's time you had the talkGive your reasonsSay it's not her faultBut you just met somebody newDon't you tell her how I give you somethingThat she never even knew you missedDon't you even try to explainHow it's so different when we kissYou just tell her that the only way her heart will mendIs when she learns to love againAnd it won't make sense right now but you're still her friendAnd then you let her down easyCall your girlfriendIt's time you had the talkGive your reasonsSay it's not her faultBut you just met somebody newAnd now it's gonna be me and youAnd you tell her that the only way her heart will mendIs when she learns to love againAnd it won't make sense right now but you're still her friendAnd then you let her down easyCall your girlfriendIt's time you had the talkGive your reasonsSay it's not her faultCall your girlfriendIt's time you had the talkGive your reasonsSay it's not her faultBut you just met somebody new

RECITING I WILL SURVIVE

First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

MOVES LIKE JAGGER

ILUSTRATING "I KISSED A GIRL"

ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

Here's teacher Joice's activity for her TN3 first class: Are you able to put those parts together in the correct order according to the song?

A - All of my dominicanos

Right there up on broadway,
Brought me back to that McDonalds,
Took it to my stash spot,
Five Sixty Stage street,

B - Home of that boy Biggie,

Now I live on billboard,
And I brought my boys with me,
Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta

C - [Alicia Keys]

In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can’t do,
Now you're in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,

D - Yeah, Imma up at Brooklyn,

Now Im down in Tribeca,
Right next to DeNiro,
But I'll be hood forever,
I'm the new Sinatra,

E - Catch me in the kitchen like a simmons whipping pastry,
Cruising down 8th street,
Off white lexus,
Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
Me I'm up at Bedsty,

F - Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives,

Nigga I be spiked out, I can trip a referee,
Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from?

G - I made you hot nigga,

Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
Shit I made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
You should know I bleed Blue, but I aint a crip though,
But I got a gang of niggas walking with my click though,

H - Labor day parade,

rest in peace Bob Marley,

Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,

Long live the king yo, I'm from the empire state thats?

I - Big lights will inspire you,

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York

J - Welcome to the melting pot,

Corners where we selling rocks,
Afrika bambaataa shit,

K - Home of the hip hop,

Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,

For foreigners it aint fitted act like they forgot how to act,

8 million stories out there and their naked,

Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it,

Me I gotta plug a special and I got it made,

If Jesus payin LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade,

3 dice cee-lo

3 card marley,

L - The city of sin is a pity on a whim,

Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,

Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,

Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,

Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,

And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church ends,

Came here for school, graduated to the high life,

Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,

MDMA got you feeling like a champion,

The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien

M - One hand in the air for the big city,

Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,

No place in the World that can compare,

Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh

Come on, come,

Yeah,

N -Welcome to the bright light..

[Jay-Z]
Lights is blinding,
Girls need blinders
So they can step out of bounds quick,
The side lines is blind with casualties,
Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
Don't bite the apple Eve,
Caught up in the in crowd,
Now your in style,

And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,

BILINGUAL AGNUS DEI

Latin is just some of what English, Spanish and Gospel have in common. Enjoy and praise the Lord.

Aleluya, Aleluya Alleluia, Alleluia

Nuestro Dios poderoso es rey For the Lord God Almighty reigns

Aleluya, Aleluya Alleluia, Alleluia

Santo, Santo Holy, Holy

El Señor Dios poderoso Holy are You Lord God Almighty

Digno eres Tú, Digno eres Tú, Worthy is the Lamb, Worthy is the Lamb

Tu Eres Santo, Santo You are holy

El Señor Dios poderoso Holy are You Lord God Almighty

Digno eres Tú, Digno eres Tú, Worthy is the Lamb, Worthy is the Lamb

Amén. Amen

DRAWING MICHAEL BUBLE'S FEELING GOOD

Some years ago I decided to use Michael Buble's FEELING GOOD in some of my classes and help them understand the lyrics by making some of these drawings that replace the missing parts of the text. At that time, I used to write for bloggyglota. Today I write here, but I'm still feeling good.

high, you know how I feel

in the sky,

you know how I feel

Breeze drifting on by

you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life

for me, and I'm feeling good

in the sea, you know how I feel

running free, you know how I feel

You know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life

for me, and I'm feeling good

You Know what I mean, don't you know

you know what I mean

That's what I mean

and this old

is a new world, and a bold world for me

when you shine, you know what I mean

scent of the ...

you know how I feel

is all mine and you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life

for me, and I'm feeling good

USED TO WAIT in THE WILDERNESS DOWNTOWN

We aren't able to fully appreciate this interactive film with pictures of our city, São José do Rio Preto - not yet. But if you bear good memories of a well-known place completely photographed by google maps you might enjoy your town featured on this fantastic THE WILDERNESS DOWNTOWN. Here, we recommend that you study the usage of USED TO to refer to things that we no longer do, as in the lyrics of this song, by Arcade Fire:

I used to write,I used to write letters

I used to sign my name

I used to sleep at night

Before the flashing lights

Settled deep in my brain

But by the time we met

By the time we met

The times had already changed

So I never wrote a letter

I never took my true heart

I never wrote it down

So when the lights cut out

I was left standing in the

Wilderness downtown

Now our lives are changing fast

Now our lives are changing fast

Hope that something pure can last

Hope that something pure can last

It seems strange

How we used to wait

For letters to arrive

But what's stranger still

Is how something so small

Can keep you alive

We used to wait

We used to waste

Hours just walking around

We used to wait

All those wasted lives in

The wilderness downtown

Ooooh we used to wait

Ooooh we used to wait

Ooooh we used to wait

Sometimes it never came

(ooooh we used to wait)

Sometimes it never came

(ooooh we used to wait)

Still moving through the pain

(oooooooooooh)

I'm gonna write a letter

To my true love

I'm gonna sign my name

Like a patient on a table

I wanna walk again

Gonna move through the pain

Now our lives are changing fast

Now our lives are changing fast

Hope that something pure can last

Hope that something pure can last

Ooooh we used to wait

Ooooh we used to wait

Ooooh we used to wait

Sometimes it never came

(ooooh we used to wait)

Sometimes it never came

(ooooh we used to wait)

Still moving through the pain(oooooooooooh)

We used to wait (x3)

We used to wait for it

We used to wait for it

Now we're screaming

Sing the chorus again

We used to wait for it

We used to wait for it

Now we're screaming

Sing the chorus again

I used to wait for it

I used to wait for it

Hear my voice screaming

Sing the chorus again

Wait for it! (x3)

WORK OF ART in 19 LANGUAGES

How about a song in 19 languages sung by the same performer? A global project by a very talented singer named Haikaa with a very nice message. Meet her. Where is she from? Brazil, of course.

IN LADY GAGA'S HAIR

One of her newest hits is here for you to feel fine about how you look and check out the way you listen and understand. Try to fill in those blanks:

Whenever I'm dressed cool ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________________ put up a fight

And if I'm hot shot mom will ___________________________

And ____________________________ I'm short of my identity

I scream mom and dad _______________________________?

To be

I just want to be myself and _____________________

Me ________________ am

I just want to be myself and ______________________

I am __________________

I've _________________, this is my prayer

That I'll die living ______________________________

I've had enough, this is my prayer

That I'll die living just as free as my hair

________________________, I'm not a freak

I just keep fighting to stay cool on these streets

_______________________, enough, enough

This is my prayer, I swear

I'm _______ my hair

I'm ________________

I am my hair

I am my hair

I just _______________________, I just want to be me

And _________________ that invite me ____________________

I don't ____________________________________ to be ashamed

I'm the spirit of my hair, it's all the glory that I bear

I am my hair

I am my hair

PLACEBO - The Never Ending Why

Challenge your own listening by doing this filling-in-the-blank exercise on Placebo's THE NEVER ENDING WHY, in this easy-to-understand performance for you to enjoy.

The atom _________ implode

The fragile kingdom _______________

The tremor _____________ a quake

____________________________________

CHORUS

And __________________________ rebel

Damn you all to hell

I wonder ___________________________

Time _____________________ through

But ________________________________

to give you _________________________

to the ______________________________

The sound of ________________ grows

As spiders kissing fly

The tumour _________________ malign

But the kids _______________________

CHORUS

ROLLING IN THE DEEP on BAMUSICAS

She was our student and has recently posted this great performance on Adele's Rolling in the Deep, that we share with this challenging Filling-in-the-blanks exercise. Watch more of hers on BAMUSICAS. Enjoy:

____________________________________________________________

reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark

____________________________________________ crystal clear

Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare

See how_____________________________________________________

Don't underestimate____________________________________________

There's a fire starting in my heart

___________________________________________________________

The scars ____________________________________________________

they keep me thinking that we almost had it all

______________________________, they leave me breathless

________________________________________ feeling...

_______________________________________________________

(You're going to wish you had never met me)

rolling in the deep

(Tears are going to fall, rolling in the deep)

__________________________________ inside of your hand

(You're going to wish you had never met me)

And you played it to the beat

(Tears are going to fall, rolling in the deep)

Baby, _________________________________________________

but I've heard one of you and I'm going to make your head burn

_____________________ in the depths of your despair

______________________, as mine sure won't be shared

(CHORUS)

Throw your soul _______________________________________

Count your blessings ______________________________________

Turn my sorrow into treasured gold

You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown

MERCY by DUFFY on INGLÊS COM MÚSICA

Our friend Ana Cláudia Repeker Pinheiro introduced us to TV Cultura's program INGLÊS COM MÚSICA, click on link to check it out. Here, you can enjoy the one with Duffy's Mercy, very well explained, detailed and inspiring for our practice in class.

FIREWORK by PS22 CHOIR

We open this new blog presenting this incredible choir PS22 performing Kate Perry's FIREWORK, a beautiful clip you can check out on YOUTUBE clicking this link. Bellow you'll find some gaps for you to fill in. Do you think you can?

______________________________________________________________

drifting through the wind

wanting _______________________________________________________

Do you ever feel, _________________________________________________

like___________________________________________________________

One blow from caving in

Do you ever feel aready buried deep

six feet under scream

_______________________________________________________________

Do _____________________________________________________________

'cause there's a spark in you

You've just got to ignite the light

_______________________________________________________________

Just own the night

_______________________________________________________________

'Cause baby, _____________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

Make them go "oh, oh,oh!"

As you shoot across the sky-y-y

Baby, you're a firework

Come on let your colors burst

Make them go "oh, oh, oh!"

You're going to leave them falling down-own-own

_______________________________________________________________

You're original, cannot be replaced

_______________________________________________________________

After a hurricane comes a rainbow

_______________________________________________________________

So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road

Like a lightening bolt, your heart will blow

________________________________________________________________

CHORUS

Boom, boom, boom

Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

_________________________________________________________________

And now it's time to let it through