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Learning english with Macklemore
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Teaching English With Songs
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-17
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3998
7th form group session (what are your hobbies ?)
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-14
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196
Practice Irregular Past Tense with SONG: Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion [3 pages + lyrics]
Level:
intermediate
Age:
9-17
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2014
Song: You�re my best friend - Queen
Level:
elementary
Age:
8-14
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1948
Teach English through songs - 5 page song list suggestion
Level:
elementary
Age:
14-17
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1799
Hotel California (four skills)
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-17
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1821
C
an't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
[Intro:]
Ay, ay, ay
Good to see you, come on in, let's go
Yeah, let's go
Alright, alright
OK, uh, alright, OK
Alright, OK
1. Fill the blanks with the correct word
of the Mack,
up!
What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn’t.
for a better
to get up out of bed
Instead of
on the Internet and
a new hit
Get up! Fresh out, pimp strut
, little bit of
, little bit of cautious
Somewhere
like Rocky and Cosby. Sweater gang, nope, nope y’all can’t
Yup. Bad,
walking, this here is our
, my posse's been on Broadway,
And we
it our
.
music, I shed my
and put my
into everything I record to it
And
I’m on.
Let that
light go and shine on
,
Got that Bob Barker suit
and plinko in my
.
, stay on my craft and stick
for those pounds,
But I do that to pass the
and put on for my
Trust me. On my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustler,
Chasing
since I was fourteen with the four track bussing
Halfway cross that city with the
, fat cat, crushing
2. Put the stanzas in order
Now they can’t tell me nothing
Labels out here,
Spread it across the country
We give that to the people,
3. Match the stanzas with their continuation
(Chorus x2)
A - Can we go back,
we’ll fight 'til it’s over
B - Tonight is the night,
this is the moment
C - So we put our hands up
can’t hold us
D - Like the ceiling
like the ceiling can’t hold us
3. Use the words in the box to fill the blanks
ourselves - behind - hands - watching - people - believer - girl - gone - eating - white - grateful - gold - get - raised - stop
Now, can I kick it? Thank you. Yeah I'm so damn
I grew up, really wanted
fronts
But that’s what you
when Wu Tang
you
Y’all can’t
me, go hard like I got an 808 in my heart beat
And I’m
at the beat like you gave a little speed to a great
shark on shark week
Raw. Tell me go up.
!
Deuces goodbye. I got a world to see, and my
she wanna see Rome,
Caesar make you a
. Now I never ever did it for a throne.
That validation comes from giving it back to the
. Now sing this song and it goes like
Raise those
, this is our party
We came here to live life like nobody was
I got my city right
me
If I fall, they got me. Learn from that failure gain humility and then we keep marching
(Chorus x2)
And so we put our hands up
And so we put our hands up
Wa oh oh oh wa oh oh oh wa oh oh
Let's go!
Na na na na na na na na (aha)
Hey
And all my people say
Na na na na na na na na (that's right, feels good)
Hey
And all my people say
Na na na na na na na na (it's alright)
(oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
And all my people say
Na na na na na na na na
Ma-ckle-more