Thursday 19 February 2009

Ability, Permission, Advice, Obligation/Prohibition

ABILITY:
Look around. Sometimes everything looks so disappointing. The Rolling Stones couldn't get any Satisfaction in the 60's.
1. Why?
2. What else can't you do?



PERMISSION:
Joe Cocker is playing a funny game. Let's call it "You can leave your hat on". If you don't want to play it, just listen to revise some vocabulary about clothes and the structure for permission.

ADVICE:
Listen to Should I stay or should I go? by The Clash. The vocalist is complaining about his relationship with a girl.
  1. Spot the four sentences conveying an advice.
  2. The guy mentions two choices about what to do. Are any of them satisfactory? Why
  3. Why doesn't he know what to do?
  4. The boy promises something. What is it?
  5. When does she feel happy with him?
  6. Do you think the girl really loves him?
  7. What piece of advice would you give him? What should he do?
GLOSSARY:
cool (v) to make colder.
blow (v) to explode.
bug (v) to bother.
tease (v) to annoy someone by deliberately offering something with the intention of delaying or withdrawing the offer.



OBLIGATION:
Freddie Mercury sang with The Queen "The Show Must Go On". It was a moral inner obligation for everybody to keep on going, when he was no longer in the band. Bloody AIDS!
1. Can you think of any other things we must do?
2. Can you also say some things we mustn't do?

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