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©Unashamed to be "Carroza" ©

Compiled by Luisa Gonzalez de Castejón

© Introduction

©Titles

© About the Songs and the Singers

© About the Worksheets

© Pedagogical Notes

© Keys to the Worksheets

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TITLES

A nostalgic anthology For those not so very Young who dare indulging their memories into "melodies of a lifetime "

Compiled by Luisa Gonzalez de Castejón

 

 

Titles included

© As time goes by :Carol Sloane

© Smoke gets into your eyes: Brian Ferry

© Nights in white satin: Moody Blues.

© A kiss to build a dream on: Louis Armstrong

© Stardust Memories: Nat King Cole

© Summertime: Peter Gabriel

© Unchained Melody: Elvis Presley

© Cheek to cheek: Louis Armstron & Aretha

Franklyn

© I want to be loved by you: S’nead O’connor.

© Wonderful world: Sam Cook.

© Fever: La Lupe

 

 

Cuevas del Almanzora. Course 95/96

 

ABOUT THE SONGS:

This compilation includes favourite all time romantic songs: "As times goes by" is the famous soundtrack of "Casablanca", the song that Sam plays again for Ingrid Bergman and Humprey Boggart , "Summertime . was composed by the American Gershwin and belongs to an opera set in the South in slave times.

"I want to be loved by you" was originally recorded by Marilyn Monroe.

ABOUT THE SINGERS:

Casuality has played a part in the choosing of the versions, but the result is refreshingly unorthodox . Many of the singers are well know dead people like Armstrong and Elvis; but others, like Snead O’Connor, are still in their twenties, together with Peter Gabriel and Brian Ferry, they belong to the pop-rock era but have paid tribute to their elder recording their own versions . La Lupe is a Mexican old singer who is the interpreter of many of Almodovar’s favourites, do you remember "Teatro" from "Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios?" . Her English pronunciation may be doubtful but not the vitality of her interpretation .

ABOUT THE WORKSHEETS

Jean Stevenson at her Pedagogical Concert for Granada Greta Jornadas in 1995 first inspired me to put together several all time songs with their worksheets. In fact, "As times goes by" and "Smoke gets into your eyes" worksheets have been copied from the hand outs she provided there. Some of the "treatments" she applied to other songs I have applied here to different songs. "Wonderful world" Tasksheet comes from Maite Roura.The phonetical trnscription of "Unchained Melody" was made by Carlos Juarez.

PEDAGOGICAL NOTES:

Song Worksheet Level
As times goes by Separate words Elementary & Intermediate
Smoke gets into your eyes Order the words Elementary
Nights in white satin Fill in with words Elementary & Intermediate
A kiss to build a dream on Multiple choice Beginners & Elementary
Stardust memories Matching Intermediate
Summer time Multiple choice Beginner & Elementary
Unchained melody Phonetical reading Elementary
Cheek to cheek Long vowels pronunciation All levels
I want to be loved by you /ai / pronunciation Elementary & intermediate
Wonderful world Order words (subjects) Beginner & Intermediate
Fever Change wrong words Beginners

1

 

Carol Sloane

 

Separate the words

  1. nowjustrememberthisakissisjustakiss
  2. asightisjustasight
  3. thefundamentalthingsapply
  4. astimegoesby
  5. andwhentwoloverswootheystillsayIloveyou
  6. onthatyoucanrely
  7. theworldwillalwayswelcomelovers
  8. astimegoesby
  9. **moonlightandloversneveroutofdate
  10. heartsfullofpassionjealousyandhate
  11. womanneedsmanandmanmusthavehismate
  12. thatnobodycandeny
  13. isstillthesameoldstory
  14. afightforloveandglory
  15. acaseofdoordie
  16. theworldwillalwayswelcomelover
  17. astimegoesby

**Repeat from here

 

2

SMOKE GETS INTO YOUR EYES

Bryan Ferry

 

Put the words in the correct order

  1. asked they I how me knew
  2. true true my was love
  3. at replied once I something inside here
  4. denied cannot be
  5. some they day you’ll said find
  6. blind all love who are
  7. heart’s when your on fire
  8. must realise you
  9. gets eyes your smoke in
  10. chaffed them I so
  11. laughed gaily and I
  12. to doubt think could they my love
  13. today had but my love away flown
  14. now without I’m love my
  15. friends laughing now deride
  16. hide I cannot tears
  17. I so and smile say
  18. a loving when flame dies
  19. gets smoke eyes your in

    PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ON THIS WORKSHEET

 

 

3

Moody Blues

Fill in with the words from the box on the right

¶ 1

  1. Nights in white satin
  2. Never (A)......................the end
  3. (B)..............I’ve written
  4. (C)...............meaning to send
  5. (D)................. I’ve always missed
  6. With these (E)..................before
  7. Just what the (F)...........is
  8. I can’t say (G)......................

 

Chorus

´cos I love you
Yes, I love you
O, how much I love you

 

 

BEAUTY
EYES
PEOPLE
HAND
DEFEND
REACHING
UNDERSTAND
NEVER
TRUTH
THROUGH
LETTERS
END
WANT
TELL
ANYMORE

 
 

2

  1. Gazing at (H)................
  2. Some hand in (I) .................
  3. Just what I’m going (J)...........
  4. They can’t (K) ..........................
  5. Some try to (L)......................me
  6. Thoughts they cannot (M)............
  7. Just what you (N)..............to be
  8. You will be in the (O).....................

Chorus 1&2

Please , do not write on this worksheet

(Spoken)

Breathe deep the gathering gloom oscuridad
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Small cheap apartments with a single room
another day uselessly spent
Impassionate lovers wrestle
Tipo de lucha libre, (metaphor )
As one lonely man cries for love
But has none
New mother picks up and suckles her seed
amamanta su semilla
Senior citizens wish they were young
Jubilados
Cold hearted orb rules the night Refers to the moon
Removes the colours from our sight
red is grey and yellow, white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion.

4

 

Louis Armstrong

Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my 1.-...............will thrive upon that kiss
2.............. I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on
Give me a kiss before you 3........... me
An my 1..............will feed my hungry heart
Leave me one thing 4..........we part
A kiss to build a dream on
When I am alone with my fancies I’ll be with you
Weaving romances making believe they’re 5............
Give me your lips but just a moment
And my 1.........will make that moment live
6...........me what you were long to give
A kiss to build a dream on

Repeat A & B

1.- A: emotion B: imagination C: sensation D: passion
2.- A: darling B: sweetheart C: honey D: baby
3.-A:love B: leave C: kiss D: hold
4.-A:when B: after C. before D: while
5.-A: you B: blue C.true D: sure
6.-A: tell 7: say C: pass D: give

Please do not write on this worksheet

 

5

Match the two parts of the song, first read the words and think what parts can go together, then listen to the song to see if you were right 

 

And now the purple dust
Steals across the meadows
High up in the sky
Always remind me

You wander down the lane
Leaving me a song
Love is now that
stardust
The music of the years

Sometimes I wander I spend
Dreaming of the song
Hunts
And I am once again
When our love
And each kiss

But that was
Now my consolation
Beside a garden wall
Your eyes
The nightingale
A paradise

Though I dream
In my heart
My stardust melody

 

that we’ll part
the little stars climb
of my heart
of twilight time

gone by
of yesterday
that will not die
and far away
my reverie

with you
the lonely night
the melody
an inspiration
was new

where roses grew
tells its fairy tale
and my eyes
when stars are bright
is in the stardust of a song
long ago

it will remain
the melody of love’s refrain
in vain

 

 

6

SUMMERTIME
Peter Gabriel

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Underline the adequate words

                                          living
Summertime and the (1) loving is easy
                                          laughing

Fish are jumping
green
And the cotton is (2) bright
                                    high

Your daddy’s rich
And your mum is good looking

                                                        try
So, hush little baby, don’t you (3) fly
                                                        cry

                        days
One of this (4) weeks
                        mornings

Gonna rise up singing

                                               arms
Then you’ll spread your (5) hands till the sky
                                               wings

                                                                     harm
Till that morning there’s nothing can (6) touch you
                                                                     hurt

With daddy and mummy standing by

 

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8

Cheek to cheek Louis Armstrong & Aretha Franklyn

Sing along and pronounce the long vowels: /a:/, /i:/, /u:/, /o:/

Heaven , I’m in heaven

                        /i:/                   /a:/          /i:/
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

           /i:/                                       /i:/
And I seem to find the happiness I seek

                                                     /i:/        /i:/
When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek

Yes, heaven , I’m in heaven

                                              /o:/    /i:/
And the cares that hung around all week

   /i:/
Seem to vanish like a go gambler’s luckiest trick

                                                       /i:/       /i:/
When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek

Oh I’ d love to climb a mountain

             /i:/                 /i:/
And to reach the highest peak 

                                   /a:/
But it doesn’t thrill me half as much

                       /i:/     /i:/
As dancing cheek to cheek

Oh, Id love to go a fishing

                        /i:/
In a river or a creek

                              /a:/
But I don’t enjoy it half as much

                      /i:/    /i:/
As dancing cheek to cheek

Now , mamma dance with me

               /a:/             /u:/
I want my arms around you

          /a:/              /u:/                  /u:/
This charm about you will carry me through to heaven

ALL REPEATED

 

 

9

Notice the way the tripthong / ai / is pronounced in words like "Desire", "Higher", "Aspire". Can you think of other words with the thripthong /ai /?

 

Iwanna be loved by you, just you ,
Nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you, alone.
Poo poo pee doo
I wanna be kissed by you , just you
Nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you , alone
How could I aspire
To anything higher?
This pure desire
to make you my own

 

REPEATED

 

10

Find the hidden words

E.R..L.O.U.I.G.I.S:. -----EDUCATION        T.R.I.M.E.G.O.N.O.T.R.Y.            B.I.O.L.Y.G.O

H.S.I.P.A.L.C.I:------EDUCATION              H.C.R.F.E.N.                    E.N.E.C.S.C.I

H.P.O.E.G.G.R.Y            A.T.S.M.A.H           L.G.B.A.A.E.R                O.T.I.S.Y.R.H.

listen to the song and fill in the gaps with one of these subjects

Don’t know much about.1...........................
don’t know much 2............................
Don’t know much about the 3.........................book
Don’t know much about the 4...........................I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be
Don’t know much about 5.........................
Don’t know much of 6...................................
Don’t know much about 7.........................
Don’t know what is to rule this world
But I do know what this one is to
And if this could be with you
What a wonderful world this would be
I don’t claim to be an "A student" *
But I’m trying to be
For maybe by being an A student, baby
I could win your love for me

CHORUS

 

11

Fever La Lupe

( La Lupe is Mexican, she has a strong Spanish accent)

 

Correct the underlined words

 

Fever!
Never know how much I love her
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms beside me
I get a fever that’s so hard to bear.
You tell me fever
When you kiss me, fever when you love me tight
Fever in the evening , fever all trough the night
Moon lights up the night
I smoke up when you call my name
And you know I’m gonna treat you nice
You give me fever
Tener fiebre no es de ahora, hace mucho tiempo que empezó.

 

Please do not write on this worksheet

 

KEYS TO "Unashamed to be "Carroza"

"AS TIMES GOES BY"
now just remember this a kiss is just a kiss
a sight is just a sight
the fundamental things apply
as time goes by
and when two lovers woo they still say I love you
on that you can rely
the world will always welcome lovers
as time goes by
**moonlight and lovers never out of date
hearts full of passion jealousy and hate
woman needs man and man must have his mate
that nobody can deny
is still the same old story
a fight for love and glory
acase of do or die
the world will always welcome lovers
as time goes by

"SMOKE GETS INTO YOUR EYES"

  1. they asked me how I knew
  2. my true love was true
  3. I at once replied something here inside
  4. cannot be denied
  5. they say some day you’ll find
  6. all who love are blind
  7. when your heart’s on fire
  8. you must realise
  9. smoke gets in your eyes
  10. so I chaffed them
  11. and I gaily laughed
  12. to think they could doubt my love
  13. yet today my love has flown away
  14. now I’m without my love
  15. laughing friends deride
  16. tears I cannot hide
  17. so I smile and say
  18. when a loving flame dies
  19. smoke gets on your eyes

"NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN"

A.- REACHING
B.- LETTERS
C.- NEVER D.- BEAUTY E.- EYES
F.- TRUTH G.- ANYMORE
H.- PEOPLE i.- HAND
J.-THROUGH K.-UNDERSTAND
L.-TELL M.- DEFEND N.- WANT
O.- END

"A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON

1-B 2-B 3-B 4-C 5-C 6-D

KEY TO "STARDUST MEMORIES"

And now the purple dust of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always remind me that we’ll part
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now that stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wander I spend the lonely night
Dreaming of the song the melody
Hunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration

"Summertime"

1.- Living 2.- High 3.-Cry
4.- Mornings 5.- Wings 6.- Harm

UNCHAINED MELODY

  1. Oh my love, my darling
  2. I’ve hungered for your touch
  3. A long, lonely time
  4. Time goes by so slowly
  5. And time can do so much
  6. Are you still mine?
  7. I need your love
  8. I need your love
  9. God, speed her love to me
  10. Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea
  11. To the open arms of the sea
  12. Lonely rivers cry
  13. Wait for me, wait for me
  14. I’ll be coming home
  15. Wait for me
  16. Oh my love, my darling
  17. I’ve hungered for your touch
  18. A long, lonely time
  19. I need your love
  20. I need your love

"I want to be loved by you"

Notice the frequent spelling of the thriptong /ai /

  • It is usually spelt "-IER" or "-YER", therefore it may be found with comparatives or nouns derived from professions, both of then "-er": BUYER, HIGHER , PURIFIER, FLIER. AMPLIFIER In the case of "Higher" the "GH" sound is not pronounced
  • It may also be spelt "-IRE., and "-IAR" : FIRE/PYRE/ADMIRE/ LIAR/ WIRE, VAMPIRE, EXPIRE, FRIAR, TIRE, SATIRE. In the case of Latinate words "Vampire" , "Satire", in Spanish frequently coincide with endings "....iro, ira"
  • It may also be spelt "IET": QUIET, DIET.

"wonderful world"

Religious education . Physical education . Geography. Algebra. Trigonometry. French, Maths. Biology. Science

"FEVER"

Fever!
Never know how much I love YOU
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms AROUND me
I get a fever that’s so hard to bear.
You GIVE me fever
When you kiss me, fever when you HOLD me tight
Fever in the MORNING , fever all trough the night
Moon lights up the night
I LIGHT up when you call my name
And you know I’m gonna treat you RIGHT You give me fever.
Tener fiebre no es de ahora, hace mucho tiempo que empezó

 

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