Lazing on a sunday afternoon

by QUEEN

Грамматика: Future forms (Simple and Continuous), article the, prepositions

Лексика: phrasal verbs

Level: intermediate

♫ CD track 5

Teacher’s notes

1. Write out and pre-teach / refresh the words and phrases: honeymoon, bound to be proposal, ordinary guy.

2. Ask your students the following questions. The song is called ‘Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon’. Why do you think ‘lazing’? What do ordinary people do during the week?

3. Now ask the students to listen to the song and say if the character is ‘an ordinary guy’? Why (not)?

4. Do the worksheet tasks.

Lyrics and answers

Ex. 1

I go out to work on a Monday morning Tuesday I go off to honeymoon I'll be back again before it's time for Sunny-down, I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon Bicycling on every Wednesday evening Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo I come from London town, I'm just an ordinary guy, Fridays I go painting in the Louvre I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again) I'll be lazing on a Sunday lazing on a Sunday lazing on a Sunday afternoon.

Ex. 2

1) Be back 2) go out 3) go off 4) come from

Lazing on a sunday afternoon

by QUEEN

1. Fill in the gaps.

On, the, ’m, ’ll, the

I go out to work ____ a Monday morning Tuesday I go off to honeymoon I'____ be back again before it's time for Sunny-down, I'____ be lazing ____ a Sunday afternoon Bicycling ____ every Wednesday evening Thursday I go waltzing to ____ Zoo I come from London town, I'___ just an ordinary guy, Fridays I go painting in _____ Louvre I'm bound to be proposing ____ a Saturday night (There he goes again) I'___ be lazing ____ a Sunday lazing ____ a Sunday lazing ____ a Sunday afternoon.

2. Listen to the song and check yourselves.

3. Find the phrasal verbs with the following meanings:

1) Come back____________

2) Leave (a room)__________

3) Go or run away___________

4) Be born in________________

Lemon tree

by FOOL’S GARDEN

Грамматика: Present Continuous

Level: начальный, intermediate

♫ CD track 6

Teacher’s notes

1. Introduce the song. Students have to decide if it is a sad or a happy one. Is a narrator happy or sad? Listen to the song and write out some activities what he’s doing now. Play the song.

2. Discuss the students’ answers. Give out the worksheets. Ask for any vocabulary difficulties. Why is the room boring? It’s another rainy Sunday afternoon. He’s waiting for his girlfriend. She isn’t coming. He’s got nothing to do. So, what is he doing? Open the brackets. Mind that there some verbs in different tenses.

3. Now, play the song again and let the students check their answers. Pay attention to the spelling (sitting, stepping). Ask your group to explain these forms.

Lyrics and answers

I'm sitting here in the boring room It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time I got nothing to do I'm hanging around I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens and I wonder I'm driving around in my car I'm driving too fast I'm driving too far I'd like to change my point of view I feel so lonely I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens and I wonder I wonder how I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree I'm sitting here I miss the power I'd like to go out taking a shower But there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired Put myself into bed Well, nothing ever happens and I wonder

Isolation is not good for me

Isolation I don't want to sit on the

lemon-tree I'm steppin' around in the desert of joy Baby anyhow I'll get another toy And everything will happen and you wonder I wonder how I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree And I wonder, wonder I wonder how I wonder why Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see Is just a yellow lemon-tree