Anne-Francoise wanted me to do an English lesson with Auriane this week, as her English teacher was out and there was no substitute for her. We pulled out her English book and looked at each other. Anne-Francoise was determined and when she realized there was nothing to read for the lessons she had us turn on a CD with people talking.
This CD lesson was hysterical. It was English and they were talking about living in a flat. The formal type conversation that you know would never really happen in real life. Auriane was uninterested and started strumming her guitar. After lesson two, I could not listen to it any more, it really was torture. I looked through her book and got an idea.
In the back of the book there were excepts to read and some songs dealing with slavery and equality. One of the songs that they had was Let My People Go. I had her read it to me; she did a great job, just needs to work on pronouncing the ‘s’ at the end of words. I then pulled it up on youtube and we listened to Louis Armstrong’s version as she followed along.
I know that she is singing Billie Jean for choir this year so I pulled that up; video and lyrics. She did not want to look at the lyrics (of course) but was interested in the video. I explained what the song was about, as neither Anne nor Auriane understood the words well enough to get an idea of the song. I thought it was a bit weird to have middle school kids sing, but I am American.
I had also pulled up some Hannah Montana songs with lyrics. Apparently there is one song that there is a video to show you how to dance along but Auriane does not know the words so she kind of hums and makes up what she thinks the words sound like, like we all do. She did not look at this though, she was into Michael Jackson. We watched Thriller a couple of times and then headed downstairs for a long discussion of musicians. Of course I knew less than 1% of the French artists that she named and she knew all of the artists that I named.
For those of you into music here are some songs that either I like and/or are popular at the moment:
Zaz - Je Veux
Milow - Ayo Technology
LUCENZO feat BIG ALI - VEM DANCAR KUDURO
Unheilig - Geboren um zu leben
Collectif Métissé - Debout Pour Danser
Jessy Matador - Alllez Olla Olé
Emily Loizeau - 'Je Suis Jalouse'
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