Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Musical Lesson: Verbs + Gerunds or Infinitives

I will post songs as comments. You can do the same.

4 comments:

  1. Musical Lesson: Recommend + Gerund (and I like some of the idioms too)

    Alanis Morrisette, "You Learn"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzEIVMjklCk


    I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
    I recommend walking around naked in your living room
    Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
    It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
    Wait until the dust settles

    You live you learn
    You love you learn
    You cry you learn
    You lose you learn
    You bleed you learn
    You scream you learn

    I recommend biting off more then you can chew to anyone
    I certainly do
    I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time
    Feel free
    Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
    Hold it up (to the rays)
    You wait and see when the smoke clears

    You live you learn
    You love you learn
    You cry you learn
    You lose you learn
    You bleed you learn
    You scream you learn

    Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
    Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
    The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

    You live you learn
    You love you learn
    You cry you learn
    You lose you learn
    You bleed you learn
    You scream you learn

    You grieve you learn
    You choke you learn
    You laugh you learn
    You choose you learn
    You pray you learn
    You ask you learn
    You live you learn

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  2. Gloria Gaynor, "I will survive"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I

    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 now you're back from out of 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 had known for just one second you'd be back to bother me.

    Go on now, go, walk out that door!
    Just turn around now‚
    cause you're not welcome any more.
    Weren't you the one who tried to hurt (crush) me with goodbye?

    Did I crumble
    Did I lay down and die
    Oh no, not I! I will survive!
    Oh and as long as I know how to love I know I stay alive.
    I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give.
    And I'll survive!
    I will survive! Hey, hey.

    It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.
    Kept tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart!
    And 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'm not that chained-up little person still in love with you.

    And so you feel like droppin' in,
    and just expect me to be free,
    now I'm saving all my loving for someone who is loving me!

    Go on now...

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    1. Diem, this song IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER, and it also has lots of good lessons FOR US TO LEARN:

      kept thinking
      spent so many nights (time) thinking
      feel like dropping in
      keep trying (hard) to mend (this is a gerund followed by an infinitive)
      not to fall apart (negative infinitive)
      learned how to get along (reduced from how I could get along)
      know how to love (reduced from how I can love)
      you'd be back (in order) to bother me
      the one who tried to hurt me

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  3. Robbie William : Feel

    Come and hold my hand
    I WANT TO CONTACT THE LIVING
    Not sure I understand
    This role I've been given

    I sit and talk to God
    And he just laughs at my plans
    My head speaks a language
    I don't understand

    i JUST WANT TO FEEL REAL LOVE
    Feel the home that I live in
    Cause I got too much life
    Running through my veins
    Going to waste

    I DON'T WANT TO DIE
    But I AIN'T KEEN ON LIVING either
    Before I fall in love
    I'm PREPARING TO LEAVE her
    I scare myself to death
    That's why I KEEP ON RUNNING
    Before I've arrived
    I CAN SEE MYSELF COMING

    I just WANT TO FEEL REAL LOVE
    Feel the home that I live in
    Cause I got too much life
    Running through my veins
    Going to waste
    And I NEED TO FEEL REAL LOVE
    And a life ever after
    I cannot give it up

    I just WANT TO FEEL REAL LOVE
    Feel the home that I live in
    I got too much love
    Running through my veins
    To go to waste

    I just want to feel real love
    In a life ever after
    There's a hole in my soul
    You can see it in my face
    It's a real big place

    Come and hold my hand
    I WANT TO CONTACT THE LIVING
    Not sure I understand
    This role I've been given
    Not sure I understand

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