SONG: FOREVER YOUNG _ALPHAVILLE AND ONE DIRECTION

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name "Hartwig Schierbaum", born 26 May 1954 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia), Bernhard Lloyd (real name "Bernhard Gößling", born 6 June 1960 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia), and Frank Mertens (real name "Frank Sorgatz", born 26 October 1961 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia). The band was at first named "Forever Young" before changing to "Alphaville". They are best known for their three biggest hits, "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Forever Young".Wikipedia


 

And now a classic from the 80s performed by the band One Direction

  Which one do you prefer?

 


Liam: 
Let's dance in style, 
Let's dance for a while, 
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies, 
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, 
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? 

Harry: 
Let us die young or let us live forever, 
We don't have the power but we never say never, 
Sitting in a sandpit, 
Life is a short trip, 
The music's for the sad man. 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Forever young. 

Nial: 
Some are like water, some are like the heat, 
Some are like the melody of some other beat, 
But sooner or later they all will be gone, 
Why don't they stay young? 

Harry: 
It's hard to get old without a cause, 
I don't want to perish like a fading horse, 
It's like diamonds in the sun, 
And diamonds are forever. 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Liam: 
So many adventures couldn't happen today, 
So many songs we forgot to play, 
So many dreams are swinging out of the blue, 
We let 'em come true. 

Harry, Louis y Liam: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever (forever), 
Forever (forever), 
Forever young... 

FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER DIES

London, Apr 8 (EFE).- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died from a stroke, her spokesman, Lord Bell, said Monday. She was 87.

"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," Lord Bell said.

Thatcher, known as the "Iron Lady" because of her tough leadership style, was the United Kingdom's first female prime minister.

The conservative former prime minister, who was in office from 1979 to 1990, introduced free-market reforms in Britain, privatizing state-owned companies and dismantling the socialist system implemented after World War II by the Labor Party.

Thatcher led Britain to victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War.

The former prime minister, who entered politics in 1959 with her election to Parliament from Finchley, in London, had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had a series of strokes in recent years.

Thatcher, born Margaret Hilda Roberts, had a meteoric rise in politics after being elected to Parliament, taking the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975 from Prime Minister Edward Heath, who was in office from 1970 to 1974.

She led the Tories to victory in the 1979 general elections and again in 1983 and 1987.

Thatcher, who was born on Oct. 13, 1925, in the northern English city of Grantham, came from a middle class family.

 

DICTATIONS - WRITING PRACTICE FOR BEGGINING LEVEL LEARNERS

Each of the following dictations focuses on a specific learning point. The dictations are for beginning level learners and include five sentences in each dictation. Each sentence is read twice with time to write down the sentence.

Click on the dictation link to listen to the dictation and write or type the sentence down. Click on the answer link for the answers to each dictation.

I hope you enjoy the activity. Click on the image below to start:

TOO, ENOUGH, SO, SUCH

Too and Enough are used with adjectives and indicate degree. Here we have provide you the different usages of Too and Enough, So and Such.

This is too big for me!

A. Too means ‘more is necessary or desirable.’

1. To + adjective / adverb

Ex: This jumper’s too big. Can I try a smaller size?

2. Too much / Too many (+ noun)

Ex: I can’t eat this. There is too much salt in it.

Ex: There are too many people here. Let’s go outside.

3. Too + adverb / adjective (+ for + object) + infinitive

Ex: It’s too cold to play tennis today.

Ex: He spoke too quickly for me to understand him.

B. Enough means ‘as much as is necessary’

1. Adjective / Adverb + enough

Ex: Are you warm enough or shall I turn the heating on?

2. Enough + noun

Ex: We’ll have to stand because there aren’t enough chairs.

3. Enough (+ for + object) + infinitive with to

Ex: I haven’t got enough time to see you today.


EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4

So and such

These ‘intensifiers’ are used to give emphasis.

A. So is used before:

1. adjectives and adverbs without nouns.

Ex: I’m so tired. I’ll have to go to bed.

2. much, many, little, few

Ex: You shouldn’t eat so much, Jack.

B. Such is used with or without an adjective before:

1. singular countable nouns ( the indefinite article a/an is also needed).

Ex: She’s got such a wonderful voice.

2. uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns (the article is not needed).

Ex: Our neighbors are such friendly people.

C. So and such can both be used with a that clause to talk about the results or consequences.

Ex: It was such a boring place that we decided to leave.

Ex: It was raining so hard we had to stop the car.

EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4

PRACTICE MORE:

GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES

EXERCISE 5

EXERCISE 6

EXERCISE 7

CONDITIONALS - ZERO & FIRST CONDITIONALS

“If I eat two hamburgers, I will be full.” Conditionals in English grammar are very confusing!
 Learn what ‘First Conditionals’ and ‘Zero Conditionals’ are, when we use them, and how we use them correctly! I’ll also teach you the differences between them, so you’ll never confuse them again. 
When you watch it, you can do the quiz. Click on the image below. 

Did you understand it? 

yes, you did!

Now you can do the following exercises

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

And some games...

Game 1

Game 2

and ... Practice

To finish listen to the song Time after time by Cindy Lauper, one of my favourite singers.

I hope you enjoy it!