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Pobierz plik z darmową lekcją w PDF: Baby Jane – Rod Stewart (1983)

Zadanie 1. Wysłuchaj piosenki z youtube jednocześnie czytając tekst. O czym mówią słowa?

Baby Jane, Don’t leave me _____________ on the line

I knew you when you had no ___________ to talk to

Now you’re moving in _________________society[1]

Don’t forget, I know ________________about you

I used to think you ________________ on my side

But now I’m no ___________________ sure

I _______________ I knew what I know now before

CHORUS: When I _________ my heart again

I know it’s _________ last _______________

No one tell me ___________ or ___________

I know it’s ____________ last ____________

Baby Jane, don’t it _________ you feel sad

Just when I ____________ that we were ___________

You and I were so _______________ in ev’ry way

Don’t time _____when you’re loving and ___________

I’ve said ______________ so many times

the ___________ ain’t all that new

Optimism’s my best _____________

I’ll get _____________ without you

CHORUS: …

I won’t be that _________________again

I know it’s ______________ last forever

When I __________________ in love again

I ______________it’s gonna last forever

Baby Jane, I’ve _____________all I want to say

Go your ___ way, don’t think ____________ about me

‘____________ I’ve got ideas and plans of my own

So long ____________, I’ll miss you, believe me

The lesson learned was so hard to ___________

but I know that I’ll________________

I’m gonna take a good look at _________ and cry

[1] High society is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the highest levels of wealth and social status.

Zadanie 2. Uzupełnij luki w piosence słowami poniżej.

dumb, myself, when, hangin’, one, give, thought, defense, were, wish, high, secrets, longer, make, fly, situation, gotta, twice, swallow, survive, forever, where, gonna, close, winning, laughing, goodbye, through, fall, know, said, own, Cause, darling

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1. This is a breakup song, with Baby Jane being the name of the singer’s romantic interest, who is also the addressee. And the way the situation reads is that she more or less dumped him or at least has moved into a ‘higher’ social class which he cannot follow. Or stated differently, it appears that she has attractive options to move on without him and has decided to do so. And the singer is heartbroken, even offended, as a result. But instead of asking her back or anything like that, he is rather taking it as a lesson learned. Indeed through such aforementioned actions on behalf of Baby Jane, he has come to realize that she has unfavorable characteristics which he was not aware of when their relationship began.  So in a way, he is actually glad that their romance has ended. And he is also optimistic that the next time he falls in love, it will be with his true soulmate. And this confidence is perhaps once again due to the fact that now, via his mistreatment at the hands of Baby Jane, he is wiser in terms of what to look out for in a partner.
2. Baby Jane is a self-conscious gold-digging whore seducing and using the person from whom’s perspective Rod sings.

Zadanie 4. Uzupełnij definicje słowami, które są wyróżnione (na grubo). Słowa mogą być w tekście piosenki, lub w komentarzach.

1. ______________ lacking intelligence
2. _______________ cause or allow (something, especially food or drink) to pass down the throat.
3. _______________ the action of defending from or resisting attack. “methods of defence against this kind of attack” Similar: protection, shielding, safeguarding
4. ________________ denoting a thing or person previously mentioned.
5. ______________ feeling pleasure or happiness.
6. _________________ a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner.
7. ______________ the action of mistreating or fact of being mistreated; ill-treatment.
8. ____________________ am not; are not; is not: “if it _______ broke, don’t fix it” has not; have not: “they ____________ got nothing to say”
9. ________________ continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.
10. __________________ moving in one side and out of the other side of (an opening, channel, or location).
11. __________________ make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of derision.
12. _________ the person to whom something is addressed.
13. _________________ a division of a society based on social and economic status.
14. ______________________ a prostitute.
15. _________________ entice (someone) into sexual activity.
16. _____________ attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
17. ___________________ to extract money or gifts from by coaxing or flattery why did you coax him, tease him
18. __________________ (especially of an action or intention) deliberate and with full awareness, especially affectedly so.

Zadanie 5. Posłuchaj piosenki jeszcze raz zastanawiając się: o czym ona jest? Możesz teraz zauważyć, na ile twoje pierwsze wrażenie po odsłuchaniu piosenki były słuszne.

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Pobierz plik z darmową lekcją w PDF: Beautiful Tango – Hindi Zahra (2010)

Zadanie 1. Wysłuchaj piosenki z youtube jednocześnie czytając tekst. O czym mówią słowa?

Beautiful Tango, __________ me by the ___________
Beautiful Tango,_______________ you make me dance
How ______________ it can be if you make me dance?
How_____________ will it last, baby if we dance?

Come to the, come to the ______________ (2x)
And baby let me _______________  you things
Cause time is _______________  and we can loose,
Baby come and dance we ____________ make it threw
__________ we’ve got time, Yes we’ve got time

Beautiful ______________, don’t want to know your name
Beautiful stranger, just want to take your ___________
How ______________it can be if you make me dance?
How_________________ will it last, baby if we dance?

Come to the _________  where the skin speaks
A secret words in ____________
Where the night____________ the lights of day

For us to show some ____________

So don’t go if you wanna know, Don’t go if you don’t know, don’t go (2x)

Beautiful stranger, take me by the hand
Make me dance all _______________
I ___________ take the chance
I love the way you ________________
And the way you put your hands on my ______________
Are moving while you take it _____________
Makes me feel like I’m on a ___________ flow
Cause we’ve got _________________
And yes we’ve got time

Beautiful stranger, I wanna loose my _________
Beautiful stranger, in the depth of your ____________
Beautiful stranger, oh oh oh oh
I ________ (3x) your sweet music, sweet sweet sweet music, sweet music rising

Zadanie 2. Uzupełnij luki w piosence słowami poniżej.

running, until, hips, courage, move, sweet, show, take, long, world, stranger, place, Spanish, night, hand, Cause, turns out, wanna, slow, river, gonna, hand, mind, eyes, remember, time

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“I dream the arrangements and vocals; the melodies tend to come of their own volition without any great effort on my part. I work instinctively, without putting anything down in writing.” – Hindi Zahra

Zahra loves to tell stories—but only about her own lived experience—in her music. She has garnered comparisons to Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, and Patti Smith. With a little bit of blues, jazz, and unorthodox folk, Zahra has arranged her entire debut album herself. Zahra will be making waves during October’s CMJ festival in New York. We caught up with the up-and-coming artist on the influence of movie music, the steps for creating songs and why she chose to sing in English for most of her album.

INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES: It’s a mix of different music, because I was born in Morocco and we are used to listening to a lot of different kinds of music—especially to cinema and TV, because we had a lot of Egyptian films, but also Indian films and also Hollywood films. Jazz, rock, Oriental, too. It’s Africa. We have all the African music. So, I really get focused on black music coming from America, Oriental music coming from Egypt and also from south Morocco; it’s the Desert Blues, what we call the “rock of the desert.”

BEING HONORED BY COMPARISONS: The first one was Billie Holiday, but I thought that it was too much. First, because I heard a lot of Ella Fitzgerald more than Billie Holiday. Also, because the voice of Billie Holiday is tortured. It’s a voice that you can feel all of the things that she’s done to her body. So, I didn’t think we had the same voice, but I was very honored for that comparison. After the concert, people wanted to compare me to Janis Joplin, which I am so surprised about, because I don’t listen to Janis Joplin at all. And I don’t think I sound like her, but it’s the mystery of it. People hear something in my music. The most beautiful one was, I think, the “African Patti Smith.” It was when we played in London.

Zadanie 4. Uzupełnij definicje słowami, które są wyróżnione (na grubo). Słowa mogą być w tekście piosenki, lub w komentarzach.

1.____________________ gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).
2.__________________ cause great mental suffering or anxiety to.
3.____________________ the ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
4._____________________ a consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people.
5.___________________ of, from, or characteristic of Asia, especially East Asia.
6.________________ a person’s hip joint.
7.____________________ the faculty or power of using one’s will.
8.____________________ without conscious thought; by natural instinct.
9._______________ succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one; talk to someone whom one has not seen for some time in order to find out what they have been doing.
10._____________________ something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.
11.___________________ a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.

Zadanie 5. Posłuchaj piosenki jeszcze raz zastanawiając się: o czym ona jest? Możesz teraz zauważyć, na ile twoje pierwsze wrażenie po odsłuchaniu piosenki były słuszne.