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While my guitar gently weeps

 

   The conversation begins.

 

   1. What are the name's of the four people who were in the beatles?

   2. Which city in England were they from?

   3. What was the Beatles nickname?

   4. When were they formed?

   5. When did the band break up?

   6. Do you have a favourite Beatles song? which one and why? 

   7. Which Beatles members are still alive?

   8. Who is your favourite rock band? have you ever seen them live in concert? if yes where?

   9. What do these verbs mean? Match the verbs to their correct letter and meaning.

     (1) To weep                     (a) to turn something upside down or change the order of two things

     (2) To sweep                   (b) to take someone's attention away from something or to cause something or someone to change direction

     (3) To unfold                   (c) to order, limit, or rule something, or someone's actions orbehaviour:

     (4) To control                  (d) to change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way                 (5) To divert                     (e) to cry tears

     (6) To pervert                  (f) to open or spread out something that has been folded

     (7) To invert                     (g) to warn someone of a possibly dangerous situation

     (8) To alert                       (h) to clean especially a floor by using a brush to collect the dirtinto one place from which it can be removed

 

   10. What are song lyrics?

   11. Lets read the song lyrics and listen to a Beatles song called while my guitar gently weeps. write down the missing words on a seperate       piece of paper.

 

 

 

 

 

     I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping

     While my guitar gently  1                

     I look at the floor and I see it needs  2                   

     Still my guitar gently weeps

 

     I don't know why nobody told you

     How to  3                  your love

     I don't know how someone  4                    you

     They bought and sold you

 

     I look at the  5                    and I notice it's turning

     While my guitar gently weeps

     With every  6                       we must surely be learning

     Still my guitar gently weeps

 

     Well...

 

     I don't know how you were  7                     

     You were  8                       too

     I don't know how you were  9                         

     No one  10                       you

 

     I look at you all see the love there that's  11                         

     While my guitar gently weeps

     12                    at you all

     Still my guitar gently weeps

 

     Oh, oh

     Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

     Oh, oh, oh, oh

 

     Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

     Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh

 

 

     11. Do you like going to karaoke bars?

     12. If yes, what are your karaoke songs you usually like to sing?

 

     13.Now lets play this final clip to check and correct your answers. Feel free to sing along with the lyrics.

     14. What do you think the song is about?

     15. What do you think these quotes mean?

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

George Harrison


 

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

Ringo Starr

 

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

 

I don't work at being ordinary.

Paul McCartney

 

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