Sunday 2 September 2007

Reach - Glória Estefan - Music exercise

Hi students! I´m back after a long time without posting anything I left you something interesting! Take a look and enjoy!

This is an exercise (a music) to help you about the pronunciation, I hope you enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSik5a1Wuc - Watch the clip and try to put in order by yourself, the music I mixed below:

* some words are together, separate them too!
* those sentences isn´t in the right order, and I didn´t cut them as it´s in the original music.
* you can try to translate it by yourself too, it´s such a beautiful lyric!

some dreams live on in time forever those dreams, you want with allyour heartand i'll do whatever it takesfollow through with the promise i madeput it all on thei'd reach somuch higherbe stronger linewhat i hoped for at last would be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touch the skyfrom that one moment in timeseeing more the higher my lifei'm gonna be strongerknowing that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the testif i could reachsome days are meant to berememberedthose days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the distancethis timeseeing more the higher i climbthat the more i believeall the more that thisdream will be mineif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm i madeput it all on thebe mineif i could reach, higherjust linewhat gonna be strongerknowing those dreams, you want with allyour heartand that i've tried myvery besti'd put my spirit to the the skyfrom testif i could reachif i could reach, higherjust for one moment touchthe skyfrom that one moment inmy lifei'm gonna be strongeri'm gonna be so much stronger reachsome days are meant to yes i ami put my spirit to the days we rise abovethe starsso i'll go the testif i could reach,if i could, if i couldif i could reachreach, i'd reach, i'd reachi'd reach, i'd reach somuch higherbe stronger


* This music was made by Gloria Estefan in 1996 for the Olympic games in Atlanta. Since that time it turns popular. About this amazing artist and her life and goals you can take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Estefan, or if you´d like to share any interesting informations about it, with other English students, you can send it to me by email and I´ll post it here! I´ll be glad about it!
** Even if someone has this music as MP3, please send it to me that I´ll prepare the class activity! I also need the music: "Friday I'm in love" - The Cure, to prepare some activities too!

Expressions and words:

Guardar rancor: RESENT
Sapateado: TAP
Ficar na net: stay on-line.
AWHILE: for a short time;
WOUND UP: Very anxious, nervous or angry; E.G.: She gets quite wound up before a match.
HUNGER: a strong wish or desire; E.G.: I´m hunger for an adventure;
ATOLL: atol (portuguese);
Sumary: indice (portuguese);
dodging: desviando (portuguese);
glances: to give a quick short look;
straining: peneirando (portuguese);
swear: jurar (portuguese);
Stuck: unable to move/ fixed;


* try to use those words to create a new text, and bring me to correct!

That´s all for today! Have a nice first week of september!

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