14.3.12

ADELE: Someone like you.


Adele is a great British singer and song-writer.Born in Tottenham (north of London) lived with her young mother alone. She had a talented voice since she was very young and, even though her economic circunstances were not very good, she went to the Brit School for Performing Arts & Technology. She was discovered by a record company because a friend of her posted a demo by her on MySpace.

I like this song very much and I think that this video is perfect for class use. First, the lyrics can be seen paying attention to the tenses or even filling gaps to use the different tenses (present simple, past simple, past perfect, "will"  future, and also, the imperative or conditional); there are many different tenses and also time lines can be used to explain time referencies and how they are organised in a text. As the video also has the lyrics on, we can enjoy a karaoke version with the whole class or even have the class divided and make competitions between the two groups!!

If you want to know more about Adele, visit her official website.

What do you think? Do you have any other ideas?
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2 comments:

  1. One of my favourites singers, Van Morrison, has a song with the same title:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFcF4B3AFFI&feature=related

    This song was in my wedding´s invitation. Regards.

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    1. I thought you were going to say that you liked it... Thanks for commenting, Ángel, as always!! Regards.

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