“Music Is Heard Everywhere. Salvador Sobral” (8 клас)

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“Music Is Heard Everywhere. Salvador Sobral” (8 клас)

Вчитель англійської мови Хорошівської гімназії Житомирської області  Токовчук Людмила Леонідівна

Aim: to revise grammar, to develop listening, reading and speaking skills, to make the students understand the importance of music and man’s feelings.

Procedure

1. Introduction. Greeting. Aim.

Good morning, children! Sit down, please. Today we have a lesson which is not quit ordinary. We’ll listen to the English version of song “Amar pelos dois” (“Love for the both of us”) by Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv. As for our aims, let’s define them together. (The aims are displayed on the screen, the teacher and the students discuss them)

2.  MAIN PART

 Pre-story:

Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral is a Portuguese singer. He was born in Lisbon and has lived there most of his life. At the age of ten he participated in the program Bravo Bravissimo. Salvador Sobral studied Psychology at the institute in Lisbon. He spent time in Mallorca where he started singing in bars. He speaks five languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, a little Italian and Catalan. After he left the Psychology program, he applied to a musical school in Barcelona, where he finished his studies in 2014. In 2017 Sobral was confirmed to be represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Amar pelos dois” (English version “Love for the both of us”), written and composed by his sister Luisa Sobral.

A song “Love for the both of us”

If one day someone asks about me

Say that I lived just to love you

Before you, I only existed

Tired and without a thing to offer

 

My dear, listen to my prayers

I ask you to come back, that you come back to love me

I know we can't love alone

Maybe little by little you can learn again

 

My dear, listen to my prayers

I ask you to come back, that you come back to love me

I know we can't love alone

Maybe little by little you can learn again

 

If your heart doesn't wish to do so

To feel the passion, if it doesn't want to suffer

Without making plans about what will happen

My Heart can love for the both of us

 

1. Now listen to the song and say:

What words would you choose to characterize the song?

aggressive  sad  solemn happy  melancholic  rhythmical 

protest patriotic cheerful lyrical depressive  optimistic

2. Match the words from the song (on the left) to the word combinations that have the similar meaning (on the right).

1. to tire     a. to hear
2. to love    b. to get tired
3. to exist    c. to return
4. to offer    d. to want
5. to listen    e. to continue to live
6. a prayer    f. a solemn request made to God
7. to come back   g. a strong deep feeling
8. to wish    h. to propose
9. passion    i. to experience pain or difficulty
10.  to suffer    j. to adore

 

3. Read the verse 1 of the song, choose and circle the right variant from the given on the right.

If one day someone asks ____ me   about | to | before

Say that I lived just ____ love you   about | to | before

____ you, I only existed     about | to | before

Tired and without a thing ____ offer   about | to | before

Listen to the first verse and check yourself.

4. Look at the refrain. The words are typed without spaces between them. Separate them.

Mydearlistentomyprayers

Iaskyoutocomebackthatyoucomebacktoloveme

Iknowwecan'tlovealone

Maybelittlebylittleyoucanlearnagain

5. In this verse each line has one grammar mistake. Underline the words that you consider incorrect.

If your heart doesn't | don’t wish to do so

To feel the passion, if it isn’t | doesn't want to suffer

Without make | making plans about what will happen

My Heart can | can to love for the both of us

6. Listen to the song once more and agree or disagree with the following statements:

• The person in the song is having a hard time.
• People live without making plans about future.
• We can live without love.
• The heart of the man can love for the both.

 

7. Questions for discussion:

1. What in your opinion is the general idea of the song?

2. Is there any hope of changes expressed in this song?

3. Which lines of the song have produced the greatest effect on you?

4. What is the most beautiful feeling in the world?

 

 III. CONCLUSION

Well, our lesson is almost over, so let’s make a conclusion. As for our aims:

• Have we revised grammar?
• Have we trained our listening, reading and speaking skills?
• What have we achieved today?

Home task

Be ready to speak on the topic “Is it difficult or easy to love somebody?”