Resources for EFL learners and teachers: April 2008

23 April 2008

The Beautiful South - Rotterdam

And the women tug their hair
Like they’re trying to prove it won’t fall out
And all the men are gargoyles
Dipped long in Irish stout

The whole place is pickled
The people are pickles for sure
And no-one knows if they’ve done more here
Than they ever would do in a jar

This could be Rotterdamor anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
’cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone x2

And everyone is blonde
And everyone is beautiful
And when blondes and beautiful are multiple
They become so dull and dutiful

And when faced with dull and dutiful
They fire red warning flares
Battle-khaki personality
With red underwear

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
Liverpool or Rome
’cause Rotterdam is anywhere
Anywhere alone x2

The whole place is pickled
...

This could be rotterdam or anywhere
...

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.
It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.

[chorus]

Nickleback - How you remind me

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am x2

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I've been wrong, I've been down,
been to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream "are we having fun yet?"

yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no x2

it's not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have damn near killed you

And this is how, you remind me
Of what I really am x2

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I've been wrong, I've been down,
been to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream "are we having fun yet?"

yet, yet, yet, no, no x4

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am ...

Coldplay - Yellow

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow,

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh all the things I've done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D'you know you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh all the things you do
Cause you were all yellow

I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D'you know for you I bleed myself dry
For you I bleed myself dry

It's true look how they shine for you
look how they shine for you x4

look how they shine
look at the stars look how they shine for you

18 April 2008

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children anyway they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
Exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

What have we here laddie?
Mysterious scribblings? A secret code?
No - poems, no less - poems everybody!
The laddie recons himself a poet!
"Money gets back
I'm all right Jack
Keep your hands off my stack
New car, Caviar,
Four star daydream twinkle by me
A football team"
Absolute rubbish, laddie!
(smack!)
Get on with your work!
Repeat after me:
An acre is the area of a rectangle......

But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leave the kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall

15 April 2008

The Cranberries - Just my Imagination

There was a game we used to play
We would hit the town on friday night
And stay in bed until Sunday
We used to be so free
We were living for the love we had and
Living not for reality

It was just my imagination x3
There was a time I used to pray
I have always kept my faith in love
It's the greatest thing from the man above
The game I used to play
I've always put my cards upon the table
Let it never be said that I'd be unstable

It was just my imagination x3

There is a game I like to play
I like to hit the town on friday night
And stay in bed until Sunday
We'll always be this free
We will be living for the love we have
Living not for reality

It's not my imagination x3
Not my x18

The Cranberries - Animal Instinct

Suddenly something has happened to me
As I was having my cup of tea
Suddenly I was feeling depressed
I was utterly and totally stressed
Do you know you made me cry
Do you know you made me die

And the thing that gets to me
Is you'll never really see
And the thing that freaks me out
Is I'll always be in doubt
It is a lovely thing that we have
It is a lovely thing that we
It is a lovely thing, the animal
The animal instinct

So take my hands and come with me
We will change reality
So take my hands and we will pray
They won't take you away
They will never make me cry, no
They will never make me die
And the thing that gets to me
Is you'll never really see
And the thing that freaks me out
Is I'll always be in doubt

The animal, the animal,
The animal instinct in me
It's the animal, the animal,
The animal instinct in me
It's the animal, it's the animal,
It's the animal instinct in me x2

9 April 2008

More cartoons

Notting Hill - Comprehension questions

Notting Hill – Happiness isn’t happiness without a violin-playing goat.
I.
Julia Roberts
Character’s name:………………….
Job:……………………
Hugh Grant
Character’s name:…………………
Job:………………….
II.
1. What’s Notting Hill?
2. What does Rufus (the man in the bookshop) want to do?
3. List 10 food and drink that is mentioned/showed in the film.
4. What messages did Spike forget to tell William?
5. What false names does Anna use when she stays at a hotel?
6. Which magazine does William say he’s from?
7. Why aren’t there any horses in Anna’s film?
8. How much money did Anna get for her last film?
9. Why’s Bella (William’s friend) in a wheelchair?
10. Where can you read this? “For June who loved this garden – from Joseph who always sat beside her”
11.What is William looking for before his date (when he’s only wearing a towel)?
12. Where do Anna and William go after going to the cinema?
13. What happens when William goes up to Anna’s hotel room?
14. What’s a fruitarian?
15. Why is Anna on the first page of newspapers?
16. Where do Anna and William read lines?
17. Whose bottom do they talk about when they’re eating ice-cream?
18. What do Anna and William talk about in the morning in bed?
19. What happens when William opens the door?
20. What’s changing when William is walking in the market?
21. What does Honey (William’s sister) give William in the bookshop?
22. Where are William and his friends having dinner?
23. What is Honey’s announcement?
24. What’s Anna doing back in London?
25. Why does William leave the film set early?
26. What film / actors do Anna and Martin (William’s assistant) talk about?
27. Who tells William first that he has made the wrong decision?
28. Why does Max (Bella’s husband) stop in the middle of the road with the car?
29. Why does the Japanese man kiss the receptionist?
30. What’s Anna doing in the Savoy?

Stand-up comedy

Robin Williams - Easter -

Ellen DeGeneres - Dressing rooms -

Robin Williams - TASK -
And here is for me, the one big (1) __________:
How do you get Crucifixion, Resurrection and (2) ____ chocholate bunnies, (3) ________ eggs?
How do you do that (4) _______? Even (5)________ are going: " (6) _________ don't lay eggs. (7) _________ is this?"
And you don't (8) _________ a kid biting the head off a (9) ______________ Jesus.
You don't want a (10) ________ filled (11) _________ going... No, you don’t want (12)______
You don't wanna be putting raspberry (13) _________ in the grass going:
"We're (14) ___________ for Jesus, kids, (15) ________ on!"

6 April 2008

Guardian Q&A

1 April 2008

Embarrassing

Funny signs

US controversy

Cartoons, etc

Poli Library Easy Readers

Book title (number of copies when I checked)

Starter
Drive into Danger (1)
Escape - Comic Strip (1)
King Arthur - Comic Strip (1)
Last Chance - Narrative (1)
Ocra - Narrative (1)
Oranges in the Snow - Interactive (1)
Police TV - Narrative (15)
Robin Hood - Comic Strip (1)
Sally's Phone - Narrative (1)
Taxi of Terror - Comic Strip (1)
Vampire Killer (1)

Stage 1
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1)
Goodbye Mr Hollywood (13+2)
Ned Kelly: A True Story (1)
Pocahontas (1)
Remember Miranda (1)
Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son (1)
The Butler Did It and Other Plays (1)
The Phantom of the Opera (2)
White Death (1)

Stage 2
Anne of Green Gables (1)
Dracula (1)
Grace Darling (7)
Henry the VIII and His Six Wives (1)
New Yorkers: Short Stories (1)
Seasons and Celebrations (Factfile)
Sherlock Holmas: Short Stories (1)
The Death of Karen Silkwood (10)
The Jungle Book (1)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Poe (many)

Stage 3
Frankenstein (1)
Go, Lovely Rose (6)
Love Story (1)
Moondial (9)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (1)
Recycling (Factfile)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Poe (1)
The Star Zoo (4)
Through the Looking Glass (6)

Stage 4
Lorna Doone (12)
Mr Midshipman Hornblower (12)
The Silver Sword (3)
The songs of Distant Earth - Short Stories (11)
The Whispering Knights (11)
We didn't mean to Go to Sea (12)
Black Beauty (1)

Stage 5
Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep? (1+)
Jeeves and Friends - Short Stories (6)
The Bride Price (6)

Stage 6
Deadheads (9)
Dublin People - Short Stories (9)
Night without end (5)
The Enemy (6)

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