Workshop: music and diction
1.
The following words appear in the song Ain't Got No (I Got
Life) by Nina Simone. Classify them into different groups:
feet
- shoes - legs - mouth -
chin - mother - cigarettes
brothers - clothes - ears -
head - schooling - money
- hand - lips
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body:
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education:
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family:
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things:
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2.
Listen to the song Ain't Got No (I Got Life) and fill in the
gaps with the missing words:
Ain't got no (2)
ain't got no class
Ain't got no friends, ain't got no (3)
Ain't got no work, ain't got no job
Ain't got no money, no place to stay
Ain't got no father, ain't got no (4)
Ain't got no children, ain't got no sisters or (5)
Ain't got no
earth, ain't got no faith
Ain't got no church, ain't got no God
Ain't got no love
Ain't got no church, ain't got no God
Ain't got no love
No
clothes, no country
No
class, no (7)
No
friends, no nothing
Ain't got no God
Ain't got no God
Ain't got one more
No
food, no home
I
say ain't got no clothes, no job
No
nothing, ain't nowhere to live
And
ain't got no love
What
have I got?
What
have I got?
Let
me tell you what I got
That
nobody is gonna take away
Got my brains, my (9)
My
eyes, my nose and my
I
got my (10) I got my tongue, my (11)
My
neck, my boobies
My
heart, my soul and my back,
I
got my sex
My
feet, my toes and my liver,
Got
my blood
I've got life, I've got laughs
I've got life, I've got laughs
I've
got headaches and toothaches
And
bad times too like you
my brains, my (15)
My eyes, my nose and my (16)
I
got my smile
And it's my smile
And it's my smile
I got my tongue, my (17 )
My
neck, my boobies
My
heart, my soul and my back,
I
got my sex
I got my arms, my (18)
My fingers, my (19)
My
feet, my toes and my liver,
Got
my blood
I've
got life
I've
got my freedom
I've
got life
3.
Discuss
What's
the meaning of ain't got no?
What's
the meaning of the song?
4.
Vowel sounds
Put
the words in the correct column.
freedom - feet -
liver - toothache - fingers - back - shoes -
legs - mother - chin - head - schooling -
money - hands - country - job - class -
laughs - love - tongue - nothing - blood -
arms - neck - heart - live - more -
earth - father - sisters - brothers - friends -
bad - tell - have - got -
work - children - God - away
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/iː/
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/ɪ/
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/ʊ/
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/uː/
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/e/
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/ə/
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/ɜː/
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/ɔː/
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/æ/
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/ʌ/
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/ɑː/
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/ɒ/
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/b/ and /v/sounds
- Practice these tongue twisters. Good luck!
Practice
/v/
Victor’s
friend Vincent lives in Vienna.
Vincent
vowed vengeance very vehemently.
Which
is worse verse - Victor's verse or Vincent's verse?
Practice
/b/
Betty
and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
Brad's big black bath brush broke.
A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
Brad's big black bath brush broke.
2. Game: tongue twister competition
Work
in group. Create tongue twisters and practice them. The group that
creates the largest number of tongue twisters in 5 minutes is the
winner! You must read them quiclky! Good luck!
You
can use some of these words for your tongue twisters:
very - van - voice -
beautiful - baby - bus - live - love - balloon -
black - blue - violet - boy - brush - big - beggar -
boots - boat - box - brilliant - have - advanced -
vegetables - virtual - TV - river - vanilla - vase -
vehicle - vegetarian - vet - video - view -
village - vinegar - visit - vocabulary - vodka -
vitality - vote - volcano - break - best - beg -
bed - bee - business - button - buy - bike - boss -
both - body - board - blood - blouse - blond -
bird - beer - bear - bass - bag -bar - basket -
baseball - bubble - burn - buffalo - bug - boomerang -
barrel - bad
3.
Watch this video about the tongue twister Betty Botter. Can you sing
it?
Betty
Botter bought a bit of butter
But she said this bit of butter's bitter, bitter
But a bit of better butter mixed with this butter bitter
just might make my bit of bitter butter better.
But she said this bit of butter's bitter, bitter
But a bit of better butter mixed with this butter bitter
just might make my bit of bitter butter better.
Music and diction
1. Game:
Listen to some verses of songs in English which have “hidden
messages in Spanish”. Can you write the verses in English? Work in
group. Enjoy the songs!
| Christopher Cross “All Right” | |
| Dire Straits “Money For Nothing” | |
| The Doors “Roadhouse Blues” | |
| Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” | |
| Eagles “Hotel California” | |
| U2 “One” |
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