I WILL SURVIVE By Gloria Gaynor

At first I was afraid; I was petrified,

Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side,
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.
So you're back, from outer space
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,
I should have changed that stupid lock,
I should have made you leave your key,
If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me,
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive.
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, hey hey!

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,
I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,
I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high,
And you see me, somebody new..I am not that chained up
little person still in love with you, and so you
just felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free,
Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!
Exercises

1. Fill the blanks with the PAST TENSE or PAST PARTICIPLE forms of the verbs given
below. Choose them according to the context and meaning. Then, listen to the song and
check your answers (If You try to complete the gaps while listening to the song it will be very
difficult).

Be, can, change, die, feel, grow, know, have, keep, lay, learn, make, walk, spend, take, try, use

At first I ______ afraid; I ______ petrified,

______ thinking I ______ never live without you by my side,
But then I ______ so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,
And I ______ strong, and ______ how to get along.
So you're back, from outer space
I just ______ in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,
I should have ______ that stupid lock,
I should have ______ you leave your key,
If I'd ______ for just one second you'd be back to bother me,
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive.
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, hey hey!

It ______ all the strength I ______ not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,
I ______ oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,
I ______ to cry, but now I hold my head up high,
And you see me, somebody new..I am not that chained up
little person still in love with you, and so you
just ______ like dropping in and just expect me to be free,
Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,
'Cause you're not welcome anymore!
Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,
D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,
I know I am still alive,
I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,
I will survive, oh yeah!
2. Circle the odd word out according to sound

a. survive, alive, give, sigh

b. Should, would, thought, look
c. So, got, broke, know
d. leave, break, space, save

3. Match the words and the prepositions

1. Get a. around
2. Turn b. apart
3. Be c. along
4. Walk d. back
5. Lay e. down
6. Fall f. out

1................2. ................3. ................4. ................5. ................6. ................

4. Translate the sentences where those verbs and prepositions appear

Lemon tree By Fool's Garden

I'm sitting here in a boring room it's just another rainy

Sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder

I'm driving around in my car I'm driving too fast

I'm driving too far I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder

I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me

'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here I miss the power I'd like to go out

taking a shower but there's a heavy cloud in side my head
I feel so tired put myself into bed where nothing
ever happens- and I wonder

Isolation - is not good for me

Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree
I'm steppin' around in a desert of joy Baby anyhow I'll get another toy and every thing will happen-and
you'll wonder

I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me

'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
Exercises

1. Listen to the song and complete the gaps with the right prepositions.

You can do it as an online exercise, too.

I'm sitting here __in_______ a boring room it's just another rainy
Sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time I got nothing to do
I'm hanging _around________ I'm waiting _for________ you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder

I'm driving around __in___________ my car I'm driving too fast

I'm driving too far I'd like to change my point __of_______ view
I feel so lonely I'm waiting _fou________ you
But nothing ever happens- and I wonder

I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me

'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head __wosh_______ and _________
I'm turning turning turning turning turning _around________
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here I miss the power I'd like to go _miss__________

taking a shower but there's a heavy cloud _inssd________ my head
I feel so tired put myself ___in ol______ bed where nothing
ever happens- and I wonder

Isolation - is not good for me

Isolation - I don't want to sit _________ a lemon-tree
I'm steppin' around _________ a desert _________ joy Baby anyhow I'll get another toy and every
thing will happen-and you'll wonder

I wonder how I wonder..

2. Read the song and make a list of adjectives you can find in the text. Then, try to find
antonymns for them

3. Read it again looking for verbs. Try to make sure that you write the "complete verbal form".

4. Sing the song with your teacher

 Independent Women (Charlie's Angels) By Destiny's Child

Lucy Liu... with my girl, Drew... Cameron D. and Destiny

Charlie's Angels, Come on
Uh uh uh

Question: Tell me what you think about me

I buy my own diamonds and I buy my own rings
Only ring your cell-y when I'm feelin lonely
When it's all over please get up and leave
Question: Tell me how you feel about this
Try to control me boy you get dismissed
Pay my own fun, oh and I pay my own bills
Always 50/50 in relationships

Chorus:
The shoes on my feet
I've bought it
The clothes I'm wearing
I've bought it
The rock I'm rockin'
I've bought it
'Cause I depend on me
The Watch I'm wearing
I've bought it
The house I live in
I've bought it
The car I'm driving
I've bought it
I depend on me
(I depend on me)
All the women who are independent
Throw your hand up at me
All the honeys who make the money
Throw your hands up at me
All the mommas who profit dollars
Throw your hands up at me
All the ladies who truly feel me
Throw your hands up at me

Girl I didn't know you could get down like that

Charlie, how your Angels get down like that
Girl I didn't know you could get down like that
Charlie, how your Angels get down like that

Tell me how you feel about this

Who would I want if I would wanna live
I worked hard and sacrificed to get what I get
Ladies, it ain't easy bein' independent
Question: How'd you like this knowledge that I brought
Braggin' on that cash that he gave you is to front
If you're gonna brag make sure it's your money you flaunt
Depend on no one else to give you what you want

Repeat Chorus

Girl I didn't know you could get down like that

Charlie, how your Angels get down like that
Girl I didn't know you could get down like that
Charlie, how your Angels get down like that

Destiny's Child
Wassup?
You in the house?
Sure 'nuff
We'll break these people off Angel style

Child of Destiny
Independent beauty
Noone else can scare me
Charlie's Angels

Woah
All the women who are independent
Throw your hands up at me
All the honeys who make the money
Throw your hand up at me
All the mommas who profit dollas
Throw your hands up at me
All the ladies who truly feel me
Throw your hands up at me

Girl I didn't know you could get down like that

Charlie, how your Angels get down like that
(repeat until fade
1.- Listen to the 1st part and choose the right words:

Lucy Liu... with my bird/girl, Drew... Cameron D. and Destiny

Charlie's Angels, Come on/out
Uh uh uh

Question: Tell me what you think about/around me

I buy my own diamonds and I buy my own rings
Only ring your cell-y when I'm feelin silly/lonely
When it's all over please/listen get up and leave
Question: Tell me how you feel about his/this
Try to control me boy you get uneasy/ dismissed
Pay my own fun/car, oh and I pay my own bills
Always 40-40/50-50 in relationships

2.- Match the words and the meanings

rings jewel

cell-y connection

relationships a telephone

ring telephone someone

3.- Fill the blanks with the phrases on the right, then Listen to this part and check your
answers

The shoes ___________

I've bought it I'm driving
The clothes ___________ I live in
I've bought it
The rock ___________
I've bought it
'Cause I depend on me I'm wearing
The Watch ___________ I'm rockin'
I've bought it
The house ___________ on my feet
I've bought it I'm wearing
The car ___________
I've bought it
I depend on me
(I depend on me)

4.- Listen to this part and match the halves, then translate the verse

All the women who truly feel me

Throw your hand up at me
All the honeys who make the money
Throw your hands up at me
All the mommas who are independent
Throw your hands up at me
 All the ladies who profit dollars
Throw your hands up at me

5.- Translate the sentences in red:

Girl I didn't know you could get down like that

Charlie, how your Angels get down like that
Girl I didn't know you could get down like that
Charlie, how your Angels get down like that

Tell me how you feel about this

Who would I want if I would wanna live
I worked hard and sacrificed to get what I get
Ladies, *it ain't easy bein' independent
Question: How'd you like this knowledge that I brought
Braggin' on that cash that he gave you is to front
If you're gonna brag make sure it's your money you flaunt
Depend on no one else to give you what you want

* it ain't- it isn't

6.-The following indirect questions appear in the song. Write the direct questions for them

a. Tell me what you think about me

b. Tell me how you feel about this

7. Listen to the song again and choose four or five lines that could summarise the message of
this son
RELAX, TAKE IT EASY
By Mika

Took a ride to the end of the line

Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the (longings) the same.
(Where the dying
Now I'm lost and I'm screaming for help.)

Relax, take it easy

For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.

It's as if I'm scared.

It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?

Relax
There is an answer to the darkest times.
It's clear we don't understand but the last thing on my mind
Is to leave you.
I believe that we're in this together.
Don't scream - there are so many roads left.

Relax, take it easy

For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.

Relax, take it easy

For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.

Relax, take it easy

For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.

(Relax)

It's as if I'm scared.

It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Relax
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?

Relax
Relax