MUSIC TO OUR EARS!

The more I listen to Dire Straits, the more I like them...
When musicians perform live: wow! it's  heaven on earth! because they communicate their feelings too....... for example, enjoy the beautiful arrangements of "Romeo and Juliet", sung by Mark Knopfler.
If you don't understand the lyrics, remember to use the translator.

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme me a heart attack
He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it?

Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on different streets they booth were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

I can't do the talk like they talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Julie I'd do the stars with you any time

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets of serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Songwriters: KNOPFLER, MARK

Romeo And Juliet lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Source:http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire+straits/romeo+juliet_20040674.html

ANNE BRADSTREET: THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN POET WHO WROTE IN NORTH AMERICA

Anne Bradstreet, 1612 - 1672
This is just a little homage to all women writers and poets.
In this poem she wrote about her book as if it were her child.........this literary device is known as extender metaphor.
Anne Bradstreet has been called the grandmother of American literature.

If you want to read more poems, remember that they were written in the XVII century, so you might find them a little bit more difficult. But if you're really interested and would like more information about technical details, such as her use of the iambic pentameter, the most common metrical form in English poetry, this link might be useful.

The Author to Her Book

Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, exposed to public view,
Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,
I cast thee by as one unfit for light,
The visage was so irksome in my sight;
Yet being mine own, at length affection would
Thy blemishes amend, if so I could.
I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.
I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet;
In better dress to trim thee was my mind,
But nought save homespun cloth i’ th’ house I find.
In this array ‘mongst vulgars may’st thou roam.
In critic’s hands beware thou dost not come,
And take thy way where yet thou art not known;
If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none;
And for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Here's an interesting explanation!

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

More practice!

More exercises to test yourself, including a-an-some-any:

DETERMINERS: A/AN/THE/SOME AND ANY

THE DEFINITE ARTICLE: THE

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE: A/AN

Exercise 1

Different exercises

A/AN OR THE?


THIS THAT THOSE THESE ?


SOME OR ANY?

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

REVISION PAST TENSES AND THEIR COMBINATION IN NARRATIVE TENSES.

Simple past/past perfect

Past perfect/ past perfect continuous

Narrative tenses

Narrative tenses 2

Narrative tenses 3

XVIIth CENTURY LITERATURE IN THE NEW COLONIES OF NORTH-AMERICA

This educational documentary filmed in 1955 recreates in detail what happened to the Mayflower colonists before and right after their arrival in America and foundation of Plymouth Plantation.
Excellent practice of your listening skills and really useful for those who are studying the literature of the XVIIth century in the new colonies of North-America or those who are interested in History.

FUTURE FORMS. PRACTICE AND REVISION (LEVELS 1 AND 2)

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3