<3 So long, Robin Gibb <3

My personal tribute to The Bee Gees, biggest among peers: rest in peace, Robin, and thank you for so many wonderful songs. Your music remains an unforgettable part of my youth and will be in my heart forever.

Love,

M.

Listening comprehension – Pink from Head to Toes

Think of all the __________ you’ve ever heard about,

like rhinoceroses, __________, __________  and minks.

There are lots of __________ animals in all this __________,

but have you ever seen a __________ that is __________? Think!

A panther that is __________ pink!?

Well, here he is: the Pink Panther. The Pink Panther.

__________ loves a panther that’s pink.

He __________ is a groovy __________.

And he’s a __________, a scholar, he’s an __________.

He’s in the __________, the Pink __________, a rinky-dink panther. And he’s as plain as your __________.

That he’s the __________ and __________ truly original

panther pink from __________ to __________!

Yeah, he’s the one and only __________ original panther Pink Panther from head to toes!

Well now you’ve met the Pink Panther, the rinky-dink panther.

__________  he a panther __________ so pink?

You’ve seen that he’s a __________ cat,

And what a gentleman, a scholar, what an acrobat!

He’s in the pink, the Pink Panther, a __________  panther. And he’s as __________ as your nose.

That he’s the one and only truly __________

panther pink from head to toes!

Yeah, he’s the one and only truly original __________ Pink Panther from head to toes!

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Listening comprehension – Pearls, by Sade

There is a ______________ in Somalia
Scraping for ______________ on the roadside
There’s a force ______________ than ______________
Keeps her ______________ alive

This is how she’s ______________
She’s dying to ______________
Don’t know what she’s made of
I would like to be that ______________

She cries to the ______________  above
There is a ______________  in my ______________

She ______________ a ______________ she didn’t choose
And it ______________ like brand-new ______________

Hurts like ______________  shoes

There is a ______________ in ______________
The ______________ gives her no ______________
The same ______________ we lay ______________
Burns her to the ______________

Long as ______________ shadows
It’s gonna take her to get home
Each ______________ carefully wrapped up
______________ for her ______________  girl

Hallelujah. Hallelujah

She cries to the heaven above
There is a stone in my heart
She lives in a world she didn’t choose
And it hurts like brand-new shoes
Hurts like brand-new shoes

 

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I guess I’ll have ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ ;-)

Another of my students favs: the deliciously stubborn Sam-I-Am and his odd but yummy menu suggestions

Dr. Seuss rules!

♥ A tribute to the old Lorax ♥

The new The Lorax movie has just brought to my memory the old Lorax cartoon movie.

Here it is for your watching pleasure

Happy weekend!

Part 1

 
Part 2

Kimani Maruge + pupil = Becky Sharpe + Vanity Fair and The First Grader trailers + free ebook!

An odd title for a quick thought association.

Today I happen to mention William M. Thackeray to my 6th graders. We were correcting some comprehension  activities about the inspirational life story of Kimani Maruge when the meaning and usage of the noun ‘pupil’ somehow ended up in boarding schools, past centuries and social classes, rich and poor people and something too dangerously related to Manichaeism. All of a sudden I envisioned Becky Sharpe and her abrupt leaving Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies, so I couldn’t resist mentioning one of my all-time favourite novels, Vanity Fair, to my students*.

I know a few of them might be interested (I saw how eagerly Martin wrote down everything I said, sorry about the S. instead of M. for ‘Makepeace’!), so I’m bringing here the official trailer of 2004 Vanity Fair as well as the Gutenberg Project free Vanity Fair ebook** and a trailer of The First Grader movie too. Enjoy!

*I didn’t mention Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen or Benito Pérez Galdós to them, (my other passions); enough is enough!

**In English, this book is not suitable for a 6th grade EFL student, but I just haven’t found a free Spanish version, sorry.

Learning English with Peppa Pig

This is one of the most celebrated episodes we’ve been watching in class

You can find more Peppa Pig videos here.

 

Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white lyrics

Here are the lyrics for Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin White as well as the video (reposted):

Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
Pumpkin big, pumpkin small. Pumpkin short and pumpkin tall.
Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
Long and skinny, short and long. Pick a special pumpkin, a treasure you have found.
Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
Pumpkins here, pumpkins there. Put a pumpkin on a wall, put a pumpkin on a stair.
Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
P-U-M-P-K-I-N, try a spooky, silly face; then start it again!
Squish its skin, wink inside, you’ll find where the pumpkin seeds hide.
Use you hand and scoop them out. It’s funny and gross! Now let me hear you shout:
Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
Carve them scary, carve them keen -with a big, big smile and just one tooth.
Pumpkin orange, pumpkin white, carve a Jack-o-lantern for the Halloween night!
Jack-o-lantern coy, oh so bright!
So far a carved pumpkin for the Halloween night !

Trick or Treat lyrics

A couple of years ago I posted the Trick or Treat video based upon the song by In a World, My Halloween. Now I’m reposting that video for I’ve figured out its lyrics (couldn’t find them on the internet), so you can sing it along:

When the sun goes down you can hear this sound:
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).
Oh my God, you can hear our song,
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

We’re all dressed down with our costumes on,
We’ll keep our trick-or-treating to the candy store.
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

We ring a bell or give a knock on the door,
please give us some treats
that’s what we’ve come here for!
Trick or treat! (Yeah, trick or treat!).

Hear us knock and shout when the moon comes out.
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

Oh my God, you can hear our song,
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

It can’t scare us, we have no fear.
Candy comes free only once a year.
Trick or treat! (Yeah, ha, trick or treat!).
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

But when we ring a bell or give a knock on the door,
please give us some treats
that’s what we’ve come here for!

We’re back once more, hear a doorbell ring
and when the door opens the kids there would sing:
Trick or treat! (Trick or treat!).

A journey through the history of pop music | Song of the week (I)

Find out:

• Singer’s name & decade the song was published
• Meaning of the lyrics

You should be able to sing along as in a karaoke.

You’ll get an extra 0.5 scoring when all the songs are completed (come December).

If I can reach the stars,
Pull one down for you,
Shine it on my
heart
So you could see the truth:

That this love I have inside
Is
everything it seems.
But for now I find
It’s only in my dreams.

And
I can change the world,
I will be the sunlight in your universe.
You would
think my love was really something good,
Baby if I could change the
world.

And if I could be king,
Even for a day,
I’d take you as my
queen;
I’d have it no other way.

And our love would rule
This
kingdom we had made.
Till then I’d be a fool,
Wishing for the
day…

That I can change the world,
I would be the sunlight in your
universe.
You would think my love was really something good,
Baby if I
could change the world.
Baby if I could change the world.

I could
change the world,
I would be the sunlight in your universe.
You would
think my love was really something good,
Baby if I could change the
world.
Baby if I could change the world.
Baby if I could change the
world.