English activity, suitable for students from seventh to ninth grade of elementary school, using music as a base: Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie) Clean Bandit. This was prepared with the aim of developing listening, reading, speaking and presenting to the students a song that brings a beautiful tribute to mothers who raise their children alone ( mothers single).
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1) Read the lyrics and choose the sentence that best fits the idea of the song
call it love and devotion
Call it the mom's adoration (foundation)
A special bond of creation, hah
For all the single mums out there
Going through frustration
Clean Bandit, Sean-Da-Paul, Anne-marie, sing, make them hear
She works the night, by the water
She's gonna stress, so far away from her father's daughter
She just wants a life for her baby
All on her own her, no one will come
She's got to save him (daily struggle)
( ) In the first verse, the composer makes it clear that this song is for all single mothers who are going through the frustration of having to raise their child alone.
( ) In the second stanza, the composer reports about a single mother who works hard and daily to maintain a dignified life for her child. She feels stressed away from her son's father, but she knows she will have to fight alone because there is no one for her.
( ) In the first stanza, the composer makes it clear that this song is for all mothers who are going through the frustration of having to raise their child with or without the help of their husband.
2) Listen to the song and order the sentences in the lyrics.
___No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
___I'm gonna give you all of my love
___She tells him: Ooh love
___You're gonna grow and have a good life
___Nobody matters like you
___She tells him: Your life ain’t gonna be nothing like my life (straight)
___So, rockabye baby, rockabye
___I'm gonna do what I've got to do (stay up there, stay up there)
___Rockabye baby, don’t you cry
___I'm gonna rock you
___Somebody's got you (2x)
___Rockabye, no (rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (oh)
___Rockabye, yeah, yeah (rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)
___Facing the hard life without fear
___Single mom what are you doing out there?
___’Cause any obstacle come you well prepared
___Just see and know that you really care
___’Cause you haffi set things year after year
___And no mamma you never shed tear
___You find the school fee and the bus fare
___And you give the youth love beyond compare
3) Read the lyrics and answer the questions about it. In Portuguese.
hmmmm more when paps disappear
In a wrong bar can’t find him nowhere
Steadily you work flow, heavily you know so you nah stop
on the team on the team fi a jeer
Now she gotta a six year old
Trying to keep him warm
Trying to keep all the cold
When he looks her in the eyes
He don’t know he’s safe when she says
ooh love
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
nobody matters like you
So rockabye baby rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don’t you cry
Somebody's got you
rockabye baby rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don’t you cry (bidda-bang-bang-bang, alright then)
Rockabye, no (rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (oh)
Rockabye, yeah (rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (yeah)
Rockabye don’t bother cry
Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky, yo
Rockabye don’t bother cry
Angels around you, just joy your eye
A) According to the song who disappeared?
The. ( ) the child's father
B. ( ) the child
ç. ( ) the child's mother
B) Who works all day and is out of time (No team on team)?
The. ( ) the child's father
B. ( ) the child's mother.
ç. ( ) the child's grandparents.
C) Remove the excerpt from the song that corresponds to:
Oh Love
no one will ever hurt you love
I will give you all my love...
D) Watch the following lines: “So, rockabye baby, rockabye/I'm gonna rock you/Rockabye baby, don, t you cry
Somebody's got you…”
Check the alternative that best translates the verses above:
The. ( ) “…So sleep baby, sleep / I'll rock you / Sleep baby, don't cry / Someone's with you…”
B. ( )”…So, sleep girl, sleep/I'm not going to rock you.Sleep, don't cry/Someone's picking you up.
ç. ( ) ”…So, sleep boy, sleep /I'll rock you.Sleep, don't cry/Nobody comes to get you.
E) Who does the lyrical self suggest is around the child?
The. ( ) angels
B. ( ) kids
ç. ( ) butterflies
4) Write in English a beautiful message for all mothers who, alone, struggle daily to maintain the dignity of their children.
5) Create creative phrases in English to honor Mother's Day and display them on the school's wall.
6) With the help of your teacher, make a parody or translate the song and give a presentation on Mother's Day.
By Rosiane Fernandes Silva – Graduated in Letters
At answers are in the link above the header.
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