This post I make especially for all those who once fell in love with those faries. The language in Coco Rosie's lyrics is rather demanding and it reminds me of James Joyce and his stream of consiousness, so bring all the nebulas of your neurons together (especially on the right side) and take the journey into the fairy world with Coco Rosie as your guides.
Now you've listened to those twin sisters and you've realised that they are like Marmite, you either love them or hate them! If you love them follow me and the excersises to learn some English with them. If you hate them then do it anyhow! ;] (you might need a bit more time for this one: about 45 minutes)
* I may not ask you to sing along, unlesss you really insist! Otherwise try to follow with the reading in your head while you're listening to the song. This time underline the words you do not understand. (This is a difficult text so you may find couple of them here). The thing is you do not have to understand them all!
* Close your eyes and imagine the scene the girls are singing about and try to listen for all the adjectives that you can hear. Adjectives are the words that describe the nouns (and what is that noun anyway?!!!*&%$@#grrr). Ok, ok. The nouns are the words that state something: table, coffee, story, cigarettes.... (no, no no Burbon at least not in this list) and someone: singer, Rosie. One of the easiest ways to explain the noun is to say that they are generally names (in the wide meaning of the word). Now that you imagined and listened you can mark all the adjectives in the text of the lyrics.
* Now comes the best part! If you followed me all the way to here, you will be happy to do this one too! Take a pencil, colour pencils, crayons (whatever drawing and colouring utensils you have) and draw a picture you've imagined in your visual dictionary. Play the song quietly while you are working on your picture. After you did that (oh what a beautiful picture!!!) draw the arrows and write the adcjectives from the song in a right place on your picture. Have fun!!!
You will find *fill in the gaps* here.
If you wish to practice identification of the nouns and adjectives you can play the quiz on English-Zone: nouns and adjectives.* I may not ask you to sing along, unlesss you really insist! Otherwise try to follow with the reading in your head while you're listening to the song. This time underline the words you do not understand. (This is a difficult text so you may find couple of them here). The thing is you do not have to understand them all!
* Close your eyes and imagine the scene the girls are singing about and try to listen for all the adjectives that you can hear. Adjectives are the words that describe the nouns (and what is that noun anyway?!!!*&%$@#grrr). Ok, ok. The nouns are the words that state something: table, coffee, story, cigarettes.... (no, no no Burbon at least not in this list) and someone: singer, Rosie. One of the easiest ways to explain the noun is to say that they are generally names (in the wide meaning of the word). Now that you imagined and listened you can mark all the adjectives in the text of the lyrics.
* Now comes the best part! If you followed me all the way to here, you will be happy to do this one too! Take a pencil, colour pencils, crayons (whatever drawing and colouring utensils you have) and draw a picture you've imagined in your visual dictionary. Play the song quietly while you are working on your picture. After you did that (oh what a beautiful picture!!!) draw the arrows and write the adcjectives from the song in a right place on your picture. Have fun!!!
You will find *fill in the gaps* here.
"Fairy Paradise"
He draws near the periphery
In disbelief on delivery
Came child from the deep inferno
Crusty head of dead volcano
Heartless crow with brittle beak
Wooden leg too schocked to speak
Lilac dust of a woman's hair
A wooden cross a paper prayer
A stone where her body lay
A stack of feathers a pile of hay
A mushroom for an eye ball
A mustache from the snow fall
Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance
Queens and kings fairies weave wigs with eyelash
Trance music makes the fairies dance
From the caves of snail shells
Echoes the mutter medieval spells
Mystery flows her wicked river
Of thorn and blade and silver sliver
Bending 'round the clover fields
Their sapling stems don't break but yield
Her pain inflicts no arguments
Must learn to sway and un-arrange
As earth she makes her final passage
After humans long have ravaged
Vanished with all maps for motion
Upward angels last devotion
One by one escort us home
To leave the elementals free to roam
To bathe in the last of ocean's foam
To beach comb the nuclear debris
Our plastic toys and our metal trees
On the perfect day you'll find the breeze
Once blew the pollen the feet of bees
Now cry the stars when upon the earth
Their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst
A lament be heard through all the cosmos
Of the dying planet with fallen foes
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Hope you've enjoyed this one!
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Hope you've enjoyed this one!
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