Of Course Unit 2 lesson 1 Bob Dylan Monday September 4

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Monday September 4

Who are you?

Requests concerning English:

- practice

- repeat

- explain grammar (tenses) + on paper

- exam practice 

- motivation

Today:

Bring Of Course

Bring Follow Up + study pages 63 Dutch - English/ finish puzzle

Study exam vocabulary list nr 1 - 57 English-Dutch 

Today's plan:

• FU page 63 Dutch - English + puzzle
• Voc list 1 - 57 Eng-Dutch
• Of Course Unit 2 introduction: Bob Dylan.
• Song: The Hurricane
• Do ex 1 - 10 pages 61 -63

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Bob Dylan

Real name: Robert Allen Zimmerman - 24 May 1941

American artist

He wrote a lot of protest songs. Nobel Prize of Literature in 2016.

We are going to listen to his song  "The Hurricane" .

"Hurricane"

Written in 1975

Events from 1966 

 

Put the screws to someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. to cooperate with someone

To play ball with someone

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
3. To play basketball with someone
4. to cooperate with someone

His cards were marked in advance

1. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.
2. the outcome was already known
3. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control

It is a pig-circus

1. It is a funny business
2. A false testimony
3. A trial with a bribed judge
4. a phony court trial, where generalizations are made about facts that don't exist in order to meet a predetermined outcome desired by the judge

To go along for the ride

1. To pressure (another) in an extreme manner
2. to be under one's total influence, domination, or control
3. to participate in some activity without playing an active or central role in the proceedings.

What is this song about?

Ballad: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas/verses 

Dylan visited Carter in prison on December 7, 1975 and the next day raised over $100,000 for Carter's defense at a Madison Square Garden concert with his Rolling Thunder Revue, which featured Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack. On January 25, 1976, Dylan and his Revue held another charity concert, Hurricane II, in the Astrodome, where they were joined by Stevie Wonder and Isaac Hayes.  

source: sonfacts.com

"Hurricane"

In 1985 Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, ruled that Carter had not received a fair trial and overturned the conviction, resulting in Carter's release.

 

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Tomorrow:

• Of Course Unit 2 Lesson 1:  DO ex 1 - 10 pages 61 - 63 
• Study FU pages 63/64/65 Dutch - English
• Study Exam Idioms nr 1 - 70 English - Dutch