Musica - Lettura - Trascrizione
Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting ways on how to get your favourite music via the internet.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English words; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information on music and the internet.
So let’s start!
Woman: Now you’ll learn some useful words that will help you with the internet.
Woman: A search engine
Man: This is the name given to research web sites on the internet that let you look for any information or sound. E.g. ask.co.uk, yahoo.com & google.com.
Now listen to this short conversation:
Man: Can you help me please? I’m a bit slow with technology.
Woman: Sure. What are you trying to do?
Man: Well, I’m trying “to Google,” I’ve turned the computer on and clicked on the internet button, but I don’t know how to put the web address in.
Woman: OK, let me have a look. Aaah you didn’t type, WWW. First.
Man: Urgh! I’m lost.
Woman: Ok, you must type, www.google.com. Try now, what are you looking for?
Man: I just want to look through U2’s website.
Woman: “A search box.”.
Man: When you use Google, or another search engine, you get more precise information when using a “search box”. For example, “ U2”
Listen to this:
Woman: OK, now what are you trying to do?
Man: I want the song of “Gloria”
Woman: So do a “search box”, and type “U2 Gloria lyrics”
Man: Heh, it works, this is fantastic. I’m going to play on it all day.
Woman: “Tons of something.”
Man: A ton is actually a measure of weight (2,240 pounds, in UK English, but 2,000 pounds in US English.) “Tons” is informal English, and it means “ a lot of.” E.g. My teacher gave me tons of homework for the summer holidays. ( = a lot of homework.)
For example:
Woman: What on earth are you printing? Do you know its 10p for each page printed here.
Man: I don’t care, I’ve found tons of song sheets and the tunes of Queen. I want to take this home, and practice with my guitar.
Woman: Lyrics
Man: Lyrics are a plural noun, and mean the words of a song.
For example:
Woman: Are you sure, these are the lyrics for “Gloria”
Man: They certainly are. And I’ve got the lyrics to the entire Queen & U2 collections.
Woman: Your neighbours are going to love you, if you’re up all night practising with your guitar.
Woman: Now let’s listen to some information on music and the internet.
The Internet is a fantastic resource for anyone who loves music. If you have a favourite band, you can read its website, join its fan club or post messages onto its message board. Listening to pop music can be a good way to study English and to learn new words. If you don’t live in the UK, you can listen to British radio stations through the internet, or buy some albums of British pop music and study the lyrics, i.e. the words to a pop song. Lyrics can be found on the Net by using a general search engine such as Google or Yahoo. All you have to do is write the artist’s name, the song title and the word "lyrics" in the “search” box e.g. “Robbie Williams Angel’s lyrics”. If you play a musical instrument, you will find tons of websites offering free piano sheet music and guitar chords. Again, just write the song title and the word “chords” or “sheet music” in the “search” box and that’s it!
This article was adapted from www.ukstudentlife.com
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