Dear Mr. President

Попрактикуйтесь в английском аудировании на основе известной песни в исполнении Pink.

Pink said that the song was an open letter to the President of the United States, George W. Bush, and that it was one of the most important songs she had written. (released in 2006).

1. Прослушайте песню и найдите 10 "опечаток" в тексте, замените их  на правильные слова.

1. Dear Mr. President
2.  Come take a play with me
3. Let's pretend we're just two people and
4. You're not worse than me
5. I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

6. What do you feel when you see all the people on the street?
7. Who do you pray for at night after you go to sleep?
8. What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
9. Are you proud?

10. How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
11. How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say bye-bye?
12. How do you walk with your head held high?
13. Can you even look me in the eye
14. And tell me why?

15. Dear Mr. President
16. Were you a lonely boy?
17. Are you a lonely boy?
18. Are you a lonely boy?
19. How can you tell me
20. No child is left alone?
21. We're not dumb, and we're not blind
22. They're all sitting in your cells
23. While you pave the road to hell

24. What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
25. And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
26. I can only think what the first lady has to say
27. You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

28.How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
29. How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
30. How do you walk with your head held high?
31. Can you even look me in the eye?

32. Let me tell you 'bout easy work
33. Minimum wage with a baby on the way
34. Let me tell you 'bout hard work
35. Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
36. Let me tell you 'bout hard work
37. Building a bed out of a cardboard box
38. Let me tell you 'bout hard work
39. Hard work
40. Hard work
41. You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
42. Hard work
43. Hard work
Oh

44. How do you sleep at night?
45. How do you walk with your head held high?
46. Dear Mr. President
47. You'd never take a walk with me
48. Could you?

2. Переведите песню на русский язык.

3. Составьте свои вопросы, которые начинаются словами:

What do you feel when…?

How do you V… ?

(How) can you V …?

What kind of … would V…?

Are you (a) …?

Were you (a) …?

4. Ответьте на вопрос: What is the message of the song?

Ниже приведен пример комментария с одного из американских форумов.

This song is a critic, not only to the President of the United States, but a critic to all politicians. Politicians say that they work for the people, but is just a "big circus" and everyone is trying to look like they are working for the people, but they just work for themselves, they don't think on the poor, or the homeless, or how they can damage people lifes , they just set their own goals and to hell with people. Politicians live fancy lives, with peoples money, knowing the needs that are ouside in their own cities,country , nations! we live in a fiction book, politicians are the authors.

Lyrics

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb, and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you?

Ответы:

2 стр. – walk (play), 4-better (worse), 6- homeless (people), 7- before (after), 11- goodbye (bye-bye),

19- say (tell me), 20- behind (alone), 26- imagine (think), 32- hard (easy), 48- would (could)

*стр. 41 содержит грамматическую ошибку- два отрицания, но это пример слэнга, часто встречающегося в песнях.