Going to the cinema

Extra Listening 1 

1. Listen to "The Flatmates" Episode 10. Two friends are deciding which movie to watch.

2. Check the "language point": you will find vocabulary related to films

3. Can you solve "the quiz"?

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Lemon Tree Song

Animated song: Lemon Tree

Watch the animation, it's beautiful!!

And please answer in a few lines in the "comments": What is the song about?

Get on / off + means of transport

Remember we were discussing GET ON & OFF? Check this out!

The rest are other phrasal verbs with get.

Daniel

Here's the link to a beautiful live version of Daniel by Elton John.

It's clear in this version that he says "heading FOR Spain" and not "to", so fix it in your books.

For those still wondering about the meaning of the song, read on!

The song*

Bernie Taupin wrote "Daniel" while inspired by the events of the Vietnam War. The lyrics (including a verse in the original draft that was cut from the final version) describe a fictional veteran who was blinded as a result of the war ("your eyes have died"/"but you see more than I") and travels to Spain to escape those around him back home ("do you still feel the pain"/"of the scars that won't heal?"), including his brother, from whose point of view the story is told.^[4]

"'Daniel' had been the most misinterpreted song that we'd ever written," explained Taupin, in the Two Rooms tribute project. "The story was about a guy that went back to a small town in Texas, returning from the Vietnam War. They'd lauded him when he came home and treated him like a hero. But, he just wanted to go home, go back to the farm, and try to get back to the life that he'd led before. I wanted to write something that was sympathetic to the people that came home."

*Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_(Elton_John_song), last visited 6th Septembre 2012

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Here's the link to the article for those who don't have the copy.

Read it a couple of times and work on the gapped text.