I first published this video about two years ago. It’s awesome! The message is great! And besides, it’s so rich in language! Here you can find a lot of the things we’ve been learning lately!
A new week is starting, so take the time to watch it and notice everything we’ve been talking about here. If you carefully do your homework, I’m sure you’ll benefit a lot from it!
“You can not go back and make a brand new beginning…
but you can start now a make a brand new ending…”
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world. They are part of an international community that organizes TED-style events celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage.
The talks are really inspiring, full of ideas worth spreading!
be worth (doing) something
a) used to say that something is interesting, useful, or helpful:
A lot of the small towns in the area are definitely worth visiting.
The film is well worth seeing.
worth a trip/visit etc
The local museum is worth a visit.
b) used to say that someone should do something because they will gain something from it
it is worth doing something
It’s worth checking the details of the contract before you sign it.
It’s well worth getting there early if you want a good seat.
be worth the time/effort/work
It was a great evening, and definitely worth all the hard work.
be worth it informal used to say that you gain something from an action:
It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it.
be not worth it informal used to say that you do not gain anything from an action:
I thought about trying to talk to him about it, but decided it wasn’t worth it.
Got it? Drop me a line! I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Hehe…
“My friend has got ALS but he’s the happiest guy on earth!”
That’s what I’ve heard from a student of mine. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a specific disease (=illness) which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. It’s a degenerative disease.
So it came up the need to learn how to talk about illnesses.
Find below two good videos to introduce you to this matter. Listen carefully and make notes of what you hear.
Hallelujah! What a beautiful word! The song, originally written and sung by Leonard Cohen in 1984, has been performed by so many artists in various languages. But this cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, is a very special one!
“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand right here before the Lord of song, with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah’.”
It’s, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion…It’s a rather joyous song. I wanted to write something in the tradition of the hallelujah choruses but from a different point of view…It’s the notion that there is no perfection—that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything.
On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
~ Leonard Cohen
Listen to it and work on the lyrics here! You’ll love to sing along with this tune!
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/06/the-top-10-most-popular-hallelujah-renditions-on-youtube/
At the other day, when a student and I were working together, there was this need to introduce him to the expression: “It doesn’t matter”. Then, he showed me this song. It’s a cute, catchy song and I loved it! Listen to it! Have fun and work on it here!
Important! Song lyrics will ignore the rules of standard grammar and should never be used as a guide. The songwriter may pick a non-standard form so that it matches the rhythm of the song better, so that it rhymes better, because it is more evocative of a place or time, because it is in, or emulating a dialect, to be provocative or rebellious, and so on.
So “It doesn’t matter!” is correct.
