Lekcja #8 Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire (1989)

Lekcja #8 Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire (1989)

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

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South __________, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker,________

North Korea, ____________ Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

_____, “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye”

Eisenhower, ________, England’s got a new _______

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire

It was always _______________

Since the world’s been _____________

We didn’t start the fire

No we didn’t______________  it

But we tried to _____________it

Joseph ________, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

_____________, Campanella, __________ Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock ____________ the Clock”

_______, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, ___________

Bardot, Budapest, _____________, Krushchev

Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”,________  in the Suez

CHORUS: …  

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

__________, Zhou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball

Starkweather ___________, children of Thalidomide

Oh, huh, ho

Buddy Holly, “Ben-Hur”, space ___________, Mafia

Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and _____________

Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, __________ in the Congo

CHORUS: …  

Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land”

Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs______________

“Lawrence of Arabia”, _____________ Beatlemania

Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope __________, Malcolm X, British politician sex

__________, blown away, what else do I have to say?

CHORUS: …  

Birth _______, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, _____________, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in______________

“Wheel of Fortune”, Sally Ride, heavy metal, _______

Foreign debts, homeless vets __, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under ______ law

Rock and roller Cola wars, I can’t take it ___________

Zadanie 2. Uzupełnij luki w piosence słowami poniżej.

vaccine, Disneyland, Pacific, television, Stalin, Communist, Alabama, Sputnik, homicide, Kennedy, invasion, Paul, Woodstock, suicide, Brando, South, queen, Rockefeller, Einstein, monkey, British, control, anymore, martial, Afghanistan, burning, turning, light, fight, Around, trouble, Belgians, JFK, AIDS,

Zadanie 3. Przeczytaj komentarze. Czy zgadzasz się z nimi?

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Lekcja #1 Leonard Cohen – Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (1967)

Lekcja #1 Leonard Cohen – Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (1967)

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

I loved you in the _________, our kisses ________ and warm
Your hair upon the ______ like a sleepy golden ________
Yes, many loved ___________ us, I know that we are not _____
In city and in _________ they smiled like me and you

But now it’s come to __________ and both of us must________
Your eyes are soft with _____________
Hey, that’s no way to say ___________

 

I’m not looking for _________ as I ____________ in my time
Walk me to the __________, our steps will always rhyme
You know my love ______ with you as your love stays with me
It’s just the way it __________, like the ________ and the sea

CHORUS: But let’s not talk of love or _______ and things we can’t ___________
Your eyes are soft with _____________
Hey, that’s no way to say _____________

Zadanie 2. Uzupełnij luki w piosence słowami poniżej.

corner, changes, chains, morning, pillow, storm, forest, deep, before, distances, sorrow, another, wander, goes, untie, goodbye, new, try, shoreline

Zadanie 3. Przeczytaj komentarze. Czy zgadzasz się z nimi?

  • This song arises from an over-used bed in the Penn Terminal Hotel in 1966. It’s a very sinister The room is too hot. The radiator wouldn’t stop hissing. The faucet wouldn’t stop its mythological drip into the destroying porcelain sink. I can’t open the windows. I am in the midst of a bitter quarrel with a blonde woman. The song is half-written in pencil but it protects us as we manoeuvre, each of us, for unconditional victory. I am in the wrong room. I was with the wrong woman as usual. But as your Eastern physicians, Eastern metaphysicians know, just as from the darkest mud blooms the whitest lotus, so from the brownest hotel room you occasionally get a good song.
  • I think it’s about a love that can’t be, meeting someone at a point in your life when a relationship isn’t possible. For me, it’s about an affair.
  • About Leonard Cohen (interview in Warsaw): I grew up in Montreal,in Canada.It is a very wide and beautiful country. I come from a very curious city where there are many influences operating: European, French, English, Jewish, Ukranian, German, Polish, Hungarian. I can’t begin to name all of the influences that i grew up around.And always there was the symbol of the church.We were Jews. We had a very ambiguous feeling about the Church because we knew the History of the church and we knew the History of the Jews.It is a curious thing friends that i found myself at this moment in the country where the greatest destruction of the Jewry occured. I have no thoughts about it. I have feelings that cannot be spoken. It has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with me.It is some matter between our great grand-parents,your great grand-parents and my great grand-parents. I have no judgment. My song has no flag, my song has no party,my song has no border. It is for men of good will, everywhere. But let us forget these heavy matters for a moment and return to my dismal adolescence in Montreal.

Zadanie 3. Uzupełnij definicje słowami, które są wyróżnione (na grubo). Słowa mogą być w tekście piosenki, lub w komentarzach.

1._____________ the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
2.____________________ giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.
3.___________________ the fact or process of taking carefully planned or cunning action.
4._________________ eager to know or learn something.
5._____________ open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning.
6.______________ causing a mood of gloom or depression.
7.________________ make a sharp sibilant sound as of the letter s.
8.______________ /ˈfɔːsɪt/ a tap.
9._____________ soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water.
10._______________ Greek mythology: a plant whose fruit induced a dreamy forgetfulness and an unwillingness to leave; the flower of the sacred lotus as a symbol in Asian art and religion.
11._______________ a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty; the state or period of greatest beauty, freshness, or vigour.
12.__________ a line separating two countries, administrative divisions, or other areas.
13.______________ a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
14._____________ relating to, associated with, or denoting Jewish people or Judaism.
15._____________ the period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.
16._______________ a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.
17.___________ undo or unfasten (sth that is tied up).
18._________ move slowly away from a fixed point or place.; be unfaithful to one’s regular sexual partner.
19._______________ let fall or be so wet as to shed small drops of liquid.
20.___________ happen; take place.
21._____________ _______________ a surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party
22.______________ a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term

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