Sunday, November 30, 2014

Next Year, baby (Jamie Cullum)


Next Year, baby (Jamie Cullum)

Next year,
Things ARE GONNA CHANGE
GONNA DRINK less beer
And start all over again
GONNA READ more books
GONNA KEEP UP with the news
GONNA LEARN how to cook
And spend less money on shoes
I'LL PAY my bills on time
File my mail away, every day
Only drink the finest wine
And call my Gran every Sunday
Well resolutions
Baby, they come and go
WILL I DO any of these things?
The answer's probably no
But if there's one thing, I must do
Despite my greatest fears
I'M GONNA SAY to you
How I've felt all of these years
Next year
Next year
I'M GONNA TELL you how I feel
I'M GONNA TELL you how I feel
Well resolutions
Baby, they come and go
WILL I DO any of these things?
The answer's probably no
But if there's one thing, I must do
Despite my greatest fears
I'M GONNA SAY to you
How I've felt all of these years
Next year
Next year

Sunday, November 23, 2014

ENG 115: Question Words (several tenses)

ENG 115: In My Place (Coldplay)

Modal Verbs:


In My Place (Coldplay)

In my place, in my place,
Were lines that I COULDN’T change,
I was lost, oh yeah.

And I was lost, I was lost,
Crossed lines I SHOULDN’T have crossed,
I was lost, oh yeah.

Yeah, how long MUST you wait for it?
Yeah, how long MUST you pay for it?
Yeah, how long MUST you wait for it?
Oh for it, yeah

I was scared, I was scared,
Tired and under prepared,
But I'll wait for it.

And if you go, if you go,
And leave me down here on my own,
Then I'll wait for you, yeah.

Yeah, how long MUST you wait for it?
Yeah, how long MUST you pay for it?
Yeah, how long MUST you wait for it?
Oh for it, yeah

Sing it please, please, please,
Come back and sing to me,
To me, me.

Come on and sing it out, now, now.
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing.

In my place, in my place,
Were lines that I COULDN’T change,
I was lost, oh yeah.


Oh yeah.

ENG 115: Modal Verbs

Must x Have To

Should

Must x Have To x Should

Will

Modals: Asking Permission / Making Requests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-6lCaNisw

ENG 115: (more!) Present Perfect

Present Perfect

Have Been x Have Gone

ENG 115: Have x Have Got




Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Vincent van Gogh

Write the verbs in the Past Simple.

The life of Vincent van Gogh


Vincent van Gogh WAS BORN (be born) on March 30th, 1853 in a small Dutch village. When he WAS (be) a young man, he WANTED (want) to help poor people and WORKED (work) as an apprentice preacher in a mining town in Belgium. He LIVED (live) in extreme poverty and MADE (make) drawings of the people there.
Van Gogh DECIDED (decide) to become an artist and in 1886 WENT (go) to live in Paris. There he MET (meet) many of the famous painters of the time including Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Gauguin. He STARTED (start) to use bright colors, especially yellow, which he SAID (say) represented love. He PAINTED (paint) thousands of pictures, but SOLD (sell) only one.
He WAS (be) always poor. Today, Van Gogh’s paintings sell for millions of dollars. In 1888, Van Gogh LEFT (leave) Paris and WENT (go) to live in the village of Arles. There he BECAME (become) very depressed and ill. It WAS (be) in Arles that Van Gogh CUT (cut) off his own ear after an argument with his friend Gauguin.
                In the last two years of his life, Van Gogh HAD (have) to spend many months in mental hospitals. But he CONTINUED (continue) to paint until July 27th, 1890 when he COMMITTED (commit) suicide.





Vincent (Don McLean)

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette BLUE and GRAY
Look out on a summer's DAY
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the TREES and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In COLORS on the snowy linen land

Now I UNDERSTAND
What you TRIED to say to me
And how you SUFFERED for your sanity
And how you tried to set them FREE

They would not LISTEN, they did not KNOW how
Perhaps they'll listen NOW

Starry, starry night
Flaming FLOWERS that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in VIOLET haze
Reflect in Vincent's EYES of china blue

Colors changing hue
MORNING fields of amber grain
Weathered FACES lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I UNDERSTAND
What you TRIED to say to me
And how you SUFFERED for your sanity
And how you tried to set them FREE

They would not LISTEN, they did not KNOW how
Perhaps they'll listen NOW

For they could not love you
But still your LOVE was true
And when no hope was LEFT in sight
On that starry, starry night
You TOOK your life, as lovers often do
But I could've told you, Vincent
This world WAS never meant for
One as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless HEADS on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't FORGET

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged CLOTHES
The SILVER thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I THINK I know
What you TRIED to say to me
And how you SUFFERED for your sanity
And how you tried to set them FREE

They would not LISTEN, they're not listening still