Strange fruit, Billie Holiday

Strange fruit,by Billie Holiday:

• List the expressions conveying a beautiful pleasant vision of the South.

• List the occurrences of clashes between positive and negative images. What is the impact of this opposition on the reader? The metaphors.

• The tone of the song: the structure, the rhymes, the sounds.

• Why do you think this song is so famous even today, 50 years later?

• Analyse the use of FOR: cause ou but, conséquence?

Here is a fruit FOR the crows to pluck  

Here is a fruit for the rain to gather

Construction? For +               +        

Remplacer par : here’s a fruit so that the crows might pluck it.

                        Here is a fruit to be plucked by the crows        

Voir la video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

English Lesson 1

I know how to position a person in the classroom :

On the left of,

On the right of,

In front of

Behind

In the back of

In the middle

Next to

Between

Topic : 911 : USA   => 9 = september ; 11th.

What does it remind you of ?

Imagine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

Imagine John Lennon

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel.  Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."- John Lennon

Lyrics:

Imagine there's no________, It's easy if you try,  No hell_______, Above us only________, Imagine all the people living for today...   Imagine there's no___________,  It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No __________ too,  Imagine all the people living life in__________ ...

Imagine no possesions,  I wonder if you can,  No need for greed or________, A ____________ of man,  Imagine all the people  Sharing all the world...   You may say Im a___________,  but I’m not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us,  And the world will live as one.

Bloody Sunday, bloody Sunday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1972)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs

Protest against ?

Trouver la cause  de protestation :

Tracy Chapman - Behind The Wall lyrics

Last night I heard the screaming

Loud voices behind the wall

Another sleepless night for me

It won't do no good to call

The police Always come late

If they come at all

And when they arrive

They say they can't interfere

With domestic affairs

Between a man and his wife

And as they walk out the door

The tears well up in her eyes

Last night I heard the screaming

Then a silence that chilled my soul

I prayed that I was dreaming

When I saw the ambulance in the road

And the policeman said

"I'm here to keep the peace

Will the crowd disperse

I think we all could use some sleep"

[Behind The Wall Lyrics on

"Luka," by Suzanne Vega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyxYL753w4

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