ALL TOGETHER NOW - THE BEATLES
Now look at this reading exercise about the Beatles: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/beatles.html
AMERICA - RAZORLIGHT
What a drag it is
The shape I'm inWell I go out somewhere
Then I come home again
I light a cigarette
'Cause I can't get no sleep
There's nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That means that much to me
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Yesterday was easy
Happiness came and went
I got the movie script
But I don't know what it meant
I light a cigarette
'Cause I can't get no sleep
There's nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That means that much to me
There's nothing on the TV nothing on the radio
That I can believe in
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's trouble in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Yesterday was easy
Yes I got the news
When you get it straight, but stand up you just can't lose
Give you my confidence, all my faith in life
Don't stand me up
Don't let me down
I need you tonight
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold me, say you'll be here
To hold..
All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
she's lost in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
Tell me how does it feel?
Tell me how does it feel?
Tell me how does it feel?
Tell me how does it feel?
NOW TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE U.S. For example:
1. Who is the current President?2. Which political party does he belong to?
3. Which is the other main political party?
4. What is the capital city?
5. What does D.C. stand for?
6. How many states are there?
7. The U.S. also has a bicameral parliamentary system - what are the two houses called?
8. In which building are they found?
9. When is Independence Day?
10. From whom did they become independent? When?
THE SIXTIES
SON OF A PREACHER MAN - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
The Swinging Sixties
The 1950s in Britain was a difficult period of reconstruction after the devastation caused by German bombing of major cities in the Second World War (WHEN?) - London especially had suffered during the terrible time of the Blitz (WHAT? WHEN? WHERE?); the country was heavily in debt and its industries largely in ruins; Britain lost the last of its great Empire (WHAT? WHEN? WHICH COUNTRIES?); food rationing only ended in 1954; it was still the time of the Cold War (WHAT? WHEN? WHICH COUNTRIES?). All was not doom and destruction - the new Labour government (WHEN? WHO?) had initiated the Welfare State (WHAT?); the new queen (WHO?) was crowned (WHEN); new music from the U.S.A. was played on the radio and at dance halls (WHAT? WHO). But people, especially young people, were ready for a radical change.
This is the background to the explosive decade of the 1960s. It was an explosion of colour and optimism - with big changes in popular culture (music, fashion, dance and film), the arts, architecture, design and in world politics. London, Swinging London, was the centre for all this - London suddenly was "groovy" and "hip" - girls wore mini-skirts along the King's Road and in Carnaby Street; four young men (the "Fabulous Four") were playing a new kind of music at a night club up in Liverpool and would soon arrive on the London scene; young people had more money to spend on fashion and records; this was a new, go-getting generation of youngsters who wanted to break with the grey past.
I want you to imagine that you are living in 1960s London - what would you be wearing, what would be your favourite music, what would the streets look like, what car would you drive, what films would you see???????? We are going to divide the class into groups and investigate this era, we will be looking at themes like:
- Songs
- Fashion
- Film
- Dance
- Art and Design
- Architecture
- Historical Events
- And anything else you may be interested in
