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?

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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