Under pressure - Queen & David Bowie

This song was used to introduce stress and the effects of stress on people's lives with a higher level (older teen) group.

Under Pressure – Queen & Bowie

Mm ba ba de, Um bum ba de, Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on ..........
Pressing down on you no man ask ..........

Under pressure - that burns a building ..........
Splits a family in ..........
Puts people on ..........

Um ba ba be, Um ba ba be, de day da, ee day da - that's o.k.

(Chorus)

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is ..........
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me .......... '
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on ..........

Day day de mm hm, da da da ba ba, O.k.

Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it ..........

Ee do ba be, ee da ba ba ba, um bo bo, be lap

People on streets - ee da de da de
People on streets - ee da de da de da de da

Chorus

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a ..........  but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
but it's so slashed and..........
Why - why - why ?

Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're ..........
Can't we give ourselves one more ..........
Why can't we give love that one more ..........
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love

'Cause love's such an old fashioned ..........
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the ..........

 And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves

This is our last dance, this is our last dance
This is ourselves, under pressure, under pressure
Pressure

about

chance

chance

cracking

down

fence

for

me

night

out

pours

streets

streets

 torn

two

word

Worksheet here

Seaside Rendezvous

I used this to introduce the topic of seaside and holidays, there are also some useful collocations and some french which you are likely to hear in English. As I was teaching an intermediate teens class I just gave them the language as fixed phrases.

Seaside Rendezvous

Seaside - whenever you stroll along with me

You say will if you could but you can’t, I love you madly

A brand new angle, highly commendable, Seaside Rendezvous

 Meanwhile, I ask you to be my Clementine

 I'm merely contemplating what you feel inside

Let my imagination run away with you gladly

I feel so romantic, can we do it again
Can we do it again sometime, (ooh I’d like that)

This time of year, it's so fashionable,

Fantastic, c'est la vie mesdames et messieurs

And at the peak of the season, the Mediterranean ,

I feel like dancing in the rain,
 (just keep right on dancing )

Can I have a volunteer

It's such a jollification as a matter of fact,

so tres charmant my dear

what a damn jolly good idea

Underneath the moonlight, together we'll sail across the sea
Seaside Rendezvous, so adorable,

You say you‘d have to tell your Daddy if you can

Reminiscing every night

We'll ride upon an omnibus and then the casino

Be your Valentino

Get a new facial, start a sensational

Meantime, I ask you to be my Valentine

Seaside Rendezvous, Seaside Rendezvous , Give us a kiss

Lines are mixed up - worksheet here

If I were a boy - Beyonce

I used this one to teach the 2nd Conditional

"If I Were A Boy" - Beyonce

If I were a boy

I'd roll out of bed in the morning

And chase after girls

Drink beer with the guys

Even just for a day

I'd kick it with who I wanted, and I'd never get confronted for it

And throw on what I wanted then go

Cause they'd stick up for me

(Chorus)

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I'd be a better man
I'd listen to her
'Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
'Cause he's taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy

'Cause I know that she'd be faithful

Tell everyone it's broken

I'd put myself first

And make the rules as I go

So they'd think that I was sleeping alone

I would turn off my phone

Waiting for me to come home, to come home

(chorus)

It’s a little too late

For you to come back

If you thought I would wait for you

Think I forgive you like that

Well you thought wrong

Say it’s just a mistake

But you’re just a boy

How it feels to love a girl

You don’t listen to her

Someday you’ll wish you were a better man

You don’t understand (Yeah you don’t understand)

You don’t care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted
'Cause you’ve taken her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

But you’re just a boy...

Worksheet here

Count on me - Bruno Mars

From a suggestion on busyteacher.org, I created this worksheet on the song by Bruno Mars for the 1st Conditional.

Count on me – Bruno Mars

If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea
..........
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see
..........

Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need

 (Chorus)

You can count on me like one, two, three, ..........
And I know when I need it
I can count on you like four, three, two, ..........
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do,
oh yeah, oooooh oooooh, ohh yeah ,yeah

If you're tossin' and you're turnin' and you just can't fall asleep
..........

And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me
..........

oh oh oh

Find out what we're made of
When we are called to help our friends in need

Chorus

You'll always have my shoulder when you cry
..........

(Chorus)

You can count on me 'cause I can count on you...

and you'll be there

everyday I will remind you

 

I’ll be the light to guide you

 I’ll be there

I’ll never let go, never say goodbye

I’ll sail the world to find you

 I’ll sing a song beside you

Worksheet here