Music Genres

Listen and...
1. Guess the genre.
2. Try to find two adjectives to describe the music.
3. What does it bring to your mind? How does it make you feel?

GENRES:

DISCO     SOUNDTRACK (FILM SCORE)     FOLK     CLASSICAL   
GOSPEL     LATIN    MARCH    ROCK   
HEAVY METAL      JAZZ     REGGAE   RAP

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Some songs to work on the PAST SIMPLE TENSE

Coldplay 

Paradise

Gotye

Somebody that I Used to Know

Havana

Camila Cabello

BRITISH MUSIC

These are some of the most important musicians in the history of British music. How many of these songs do you recognise?

Food for thought: child labour

The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their right to education and their dignity, and that is harmful to their physical and mental development. 

It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children. It usually interferes with their schooling either because they can't attend school or because because it obliges them to leave it prematurely.

In some parts of the world, kids are made to work really long hours in awful conditions. In its most extreme forms, children are enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious risks and illnesses and/or left alone and unprotected on the streets of large cities – often at a very early age. 

Sometimes these children are illegally used for working in unhealthy sweatshops, making leather goods, clothes and shoes that are later shipped to all parts of the world. You can probably find them in almost every shop in your own town. So...

Do you think about child labour at all when you buy brands? Do you wonder about the hands that have made the clothes you are wearing? And do you think we get enough information about it? Think about it the next time you go shopping.

In this video, you can see the enormous contrast between what life is like for children from different parts of this utterly unfair world. You can read the lyrics of the song by Radiohead below.

Radiohead: All I Need

I'm the next step

Waiting in the wings

I'm an animal

Trapped in your hot car

I am all the days

That you choose to ignore

You are all I need

Youre all I need

I'm in the middle of your picture

Lying in the reeds

I am a moth

Who just wants to share your light

I'm just an insect

Trying to get out of the night

I only stick with you

Because there are no others

You are all I need

Youre all I need

I'm in the middle of your picture

Lying in the reeds

It's all wrong, it's all right

It's all wrong, it's all right

It's all wrong, it's all right

It's all wrong, it's all right

It's all, it's all

Read more: Radiohead - All I Need Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Passenger

Let her go

Well you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high 

When you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

Staring at the bottom of your glass

Hoping one day you'll make a dream last

But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes

Maybe one day you'll understand why

Everything you touch surely dies

But you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Staring at the ceiling in the dark

Same old empty feeling in your heart

Because love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep

But never to touch and never to keep

Because you loved her too much 

And you dived too deep

Well you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

And you let her go

Well, you let her go

Because you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

Because you only need the light when it's burning low

Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low

Only hate the road when you're missing home

Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

Somebody that I used to know - Parody

MARK

Now and then we like to play one guitar together

And that's convenient since we only have the one

Tony sold our other instruments

To pay some gangsters but he's still in debt

And if they catch him he will surely be dismembered

Tony is addicted to wide array of narcotics

He claims they help him write but we're a cover band 

I'm not sure why we keep him in the band

Maybe it's because he drives the van 

The rest of us can only drive an automatic

TODD

This used to just be my guitar

Now Dave is banging on it like he's fucking Tito Puente

We look sad because we're starved

Tonight for dinner we're splitting a candy bar

We are the poorest band in the world

We have to act like we are camping, but we're really homeless

I don't even own this voice We had to borrow it from Peter Gabriel

Don't you know you gotta shock the monkey

MARK

Climbing up on Salsbury Hill

TODD

Sledge hammer

DOUG

OOMPA LOOMPA DOPATY DO

My feet are cold cus Tony sold my shoes

STASIA

I don't think that we should blame our problems all on Tony

Tony not the only dead beat in this band

I don't want to name any names

But Derek, Timothy, and Dave

Each have fooled around with me

I threw up this morning and I'm gonna have a band baby

TODD

You could've mentioned that before

How can we afford to put a kid through kindergarten.

MARK

Hey guys where did Tony go

You all know that Tony can't be left alone

TODD

Now he's got the camera

and If he sells it then we'll officially have nothing

Theres nothing Tony can't destroy

But none of us knows do the plinky noise

EVERYONE

The clinky noise

TODD

We need Tony

EVERYONE

To do the clinky noise

TODD

Somebody get Tony

EVERYONE

He does the clinky noise

TODD

And send us some money

EVERYONE

For the clinky noise

STASIA

My stomach feels funny

(via María González - 1st year ESO B)

What some people can do

Handlebars 

I can ride my bike with no handlebars 

No handlebars 

No handlebars 

I can ride my bike with no handlebars 

No handlebars 

No handlebars 

Look at me 

look at me 

hands in the air like it's good to be 

ALIVE 

and I'm a famous rapper 

even when the paths're all crookedy 

I can show you how to do-si-do 

I can show you how to scratch a record 

I can take apart the remote control 

And I can almost put it back together 

I can tie a knot in a cherry stem 

I can tell you about Leif Ericson 

I know all the words to "De Colores" 

And "I'm Proud to be an American" 

Me and my friend saw a platypus 

Me and my friend made a comic book 

And guess how long it took 

I can do anything that I want cause look 

I can keep rhythm with no metronome 

No metronome 

No metronome 

I can see your face on the telephone 

On the telephone 

On the telephone 

Look at me 

Look at me 

Just called to say that it's good to be 

ALIVE 

In such a small world 

All curled up with a book to read 

I can raise funds open up a thrift store 

I can make a living off a magazine 

I can design an engine sixty four 

Miles to a gallon of gasoline 

I can make new antibiotics 

I can make computers survive aquatic conditions 

I know how to run a business 

And I can make you wanna buy a product 

Movers shakers and producers 

Me and my friends understand the future 

I see the strings that control the systems 

I can do anything with no assistance 

I can change the nation with a microphone 

With a microphone 

With a microphone 

I can split on atom of a molecule 

Of a molecule 

Of a molecule 

Look at me 

Look at me 

Driving and I won't stop 

And it feels so good to be 

Alive and on top 

My reach is global 

My tower secure 

My cause is noble 

My power is pure 

I can hand out a million vaccinations 

Or let'em all die in exasperation 

Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations 

Have'em all killed by assassination 

I can make anybody go to prison 

Just because I don't like'em and 

I can do anything with no permission 

I have it all under my command 

I can guide a missile by satellite 

By satellite 

By satellite 

I can hit a target through a telescope 

Through a telescope 

Through a telescope 

I can end the planet in a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

In a holocaust 

I can ride my bike with no handlebars 

No handle bars 

No handlebars 

I can ride my bike with no handlebars 

No handlebars 

no handlebars

Dumb ways to die

"Dumb Ways to Die" is a song by Australian band Tangerine Kitty. The Melbourne Metro created this awesome animated video-clip as a reminder that getting hit by a train is the dumbest way to die.

And, what does DUMB mean?

In formal English the adjective DUMB /dʌm/ means UNABLE TO SPEAK, but in informal English it is used as a synonym for STUPID. This is the sense in which it is used in this funny song suggested by María González. Hope you enjoy it!

What would you do if today was your last day?

A song to make you think:
"If today was your last day" by Nickelback
(suggested by Elsa)

My best friend gave me the best advice

He said each day's a gift and not a given right

Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind

And try to take the path less travelled by

That first step you take is the longest path

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too lateCould you say goodbye to yesterday?Would you live each moment like your lastLeave old pictures in the past?Donate every dime you had, if today was your last day?What if, what if, if today was your last day?

Against the grain should be a way of lifeWhat's worth the price is always worth the fightEvery second counts 'cause there's no second trySo live like you're never living twiceDon't take the free ride in your own life

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too lateCould you say goodbye to yesterday?Would you live each moment like your last?Leave old pictures in the past?Donate every dime you had?

And would you call those friends you never see?Reminisce old memories?Would you forgive your enemies?And would you find that one you're dreaming of?Swear up and down to God aboveThat you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?

If today was your last dayWould you make your mark by mending a broken heart?You know it's never too late to shoot for the starsRegardless of who you are

So do whatever it takes'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this lifeLet nothing stand in your way'Cause the hands of time are never on your side

If today was your last day and tomorrow was too lateCould you say goodbye to yesterday?Would you live each moment like your last?Leave old pictures in the past?Donate every dime you had?

And would you call those friends you never see?Reminisce old memories?Would you forgive your enemies?And would you find that one you're dreaming ofSwear up and down to God aboveThat you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?