The Power of Music

One of my most favorite songs is entitled "Young and Beautiful", which is sung by the very talented Lana Del Rey. I will never forget the first time that I heard this song, I was so deeply moved by the lyrics and the emotion. I love music, I believe that it is powerful and an important part of life. I feel that there is so much to be learned from music, especially from the lyrics, music relates to life experiences and can make you feel better. I think it is a great way to learn about another language as well as our own (we can learn new words). I want to incorporate it in my classroom, it is a fun and different way to learn, we can listen to songs in all different languages. I love listening to music in other languages, however, the song that I want to discuss is sung in English. (I edited most of the song so that it would be appropriate and it had one grammatical error)

Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I have nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will.

All the ways I got to know
Your pretty face and electric soul

He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

I highlighted these parts of the song because they are very important and special to me. I think the question "Will you still love me when I am no longer young and beautiful" is a realistic and significant question. Essentially, it is talking about when we fall in love, we fall in love with the heart not the appearance. As we get older our looks change and so it is very important that we are with someone who will continue to love us. The best part is that she knows "he will" love her when she is no longer young and beautiful. I like that the singer sings the song to her man, by saying "you" and other times she sings of him in the third person. I love how she said that he makes her "shine like diamonds", I love the use of simile. I also adore how she calls him her sun, since he makes her feel beautiful, special and happy. She describes him by saying that she has grown to know his "pretty face and electric soul", I think it is a great description and it helps us understand what he is like. 

Definitions:
1. Incorporate:  to add something to another thing
2. Aching: causing pain
3.Sung: singing but in the past
4. Realistic: something real that relates to life
5.Significant: something important
6. Description: to tell someone the appearance, sound, smell, events, etc., of (something or someone) 

                         Matching

Match the following words with their definition.

1. Incorporate                  A. singing but it in the past tense
2. Aching                        B. painful
3. Sung                          C. to include something to something else
4. Realistic                     D. something that has special meaning
5. Significant                  E.to say what something or someone is like
6. Description                 F.something that relates to life that deals with truth

What is the future tense?

In grammar, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. An example of a future tense form is the French aimera, meaning "will love", derived from the verb aimer ("love"). English does not have a future tense formed by verb inflection in this way, although it has a number of ways of expressing futurity, particularly the construction with the auxiliary verb will or shall, and grammarians differ in whether they describe such constructions as representing a future tense in English, one and all.

The "future" expressed by the future tense usually means the future relative to the moment of speaking. 

• "Never believe any war will be smooth and easy."
  (Winston Churchill)



• "Nothing will work unless you do."
  (Maya Angelou)



• "I will not charge admission to the bathroom."
  (Bart Simpson, The Simpsons)



• "I'll be back."
  (Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator)



• Scully: Homer, we're going to ask you a few simple yes or no questions. Do you understand?
  Homer: Yes. (Lie detector blows up.)
  (The Simpsons)

Write 5 sentences in the future tense

Trying New Foods

I have always had a fondness for food, although I am a vegetarian, I enjoy trying new foods. I recently gone to Dominican, Peruvian and Portuguese restaurants. I believe that the best way to get to know a culture is by eating their foods. Prior to eating at these various cultural restaurants, I had assumed that the foods would be similar to each other. After experiencing these restaurants I had learned so much, there are few similarities but many differences. Although these places may make the same type of food they do it differently in their own way. For example, you can order ceviche at either one of these restaurants but it will be unique in its own way. Ceviche from a Dominican restaurant tends to be more sweet, at a Peruvian restaurant it tends to be a bit spicier and at a Portuguese restaurant it tends to be more pungent.  

Simple Present

FORM

[VERB] + s/es in third person

Examples:

• You speak English.
• Do you speak English?
• You do not speak English.

Use the Simple Present to express the idea that an action is repeated or usual. The action can be a habit, a hobby, a daily event, a scheduled event or something that often happens. It can also be something a person often forgets or usually does not do.

Examples:

• I play tennis.
• She does not play tennis.
• Does he play tennis?
• The train leaves every morning at 8 AM.
• The train does not leave at 9 AM.
• When does the train usually leave?
• She always forgets her purse.
• He never forgets his wallet.
• Every twelve months, the Earth circles the Sun.
• Does the Sun circle the Earth?

Write 4 sentences about food in the present tense.

Definitions
Fondness: To like something
Vegetarian: A person who does not eat meat
Various: different things
Assumed: to think that something is true
Ceviche: a seafood dish that is popular in Central and South America.
Pungent: strong taste

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ASSUMED	CEVICHE	FONDNESS
PUNGENT	VARIOUS	VEGETARIAN