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

Imagine - John Lennon

I used this one to introduce the idea of alternatives to íf' in conditionals. Can also be used to introduce the idea of dreams, utopia ....

"Imagine" – John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven
Imagine all the people

Above us only sky

Living for today...

No hell below us

It's easy if you try

Imagine there's no countries
Nothing to kill or die for

Living life in peace...

And no religion too

It isn't hard to do

Imagine all the people

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
Sharing all the world...

I wonder if you can

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

No need for greed or hunger

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one 

Worksheet here

The space race is over - Billy Bragg

I was looking for a song about travel and space but wanted something different from Space Oddity. (Again!) I found this one by chance, talks about dreams and disappointments too. I remember watching the moon landings and hearing all the promises and ...

The Space Race Is Over

When I was young I told my ..........
I'm going to walk on the Moon someday
Armstrong and Aldrin spoke to ..........
From Houston and Cape Kennedy
And I watched the Eagle landing
On a night when the Moon was ..........
And as it tugged the tides, I knew that deep inside
I too could feel its ..........

I lie in bed and dreamed I walked
On the Sea of Tranquility
I knew that someday soon we'd all sail to the ..........
On the high ..........  of technology
But the dreams had all been taken
And the window seats taken ..........
And 2001 has almost come and gone
What am I supposed to .......... ?
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the ..........
Now that the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too ..........

Now my dreams have all been shattered
And my wings are tattered too
And I still can fly but not half as ..........
As once I wanted to
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get to the ..........
Now that the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too ..........

My son and I stand beneath the great night ..........
And gaze up in wonder
I tell him the tale of Apollo
And he says "Why did they ever go?"
It may look like some empty gesture
To go all that way just to come ..........
But don't offer me a place out in ..........
Cos where in the hell's that at?
Now that the space race is over
It's been and it's gone and I'll never get out of my ..........
Now that the space race is over
And I can't help but feel that we're all just going ..........

back

cyberspace

do

full

high

me

moon

moon

moon

mum

nowhere

pull

room

sky

soon

soon

tide

too

Worksheet here

As a follow up you can look at virgin galactic , for one of Richard Branson's enterprises.