viernes, 3 de noviembre de 2023

"Ain't Got No", "I Got Life" by Lisa Simone

Lisa Simone offers this stunning cover of Nina Simone's (Lisa's mother) medley of two songs from the musical film "Hair", "Ain't Got No" and "I Got Life", on the RTL's programme, "L'Heure du Jazz" (2014), after the release of her album All is Well.  Lisa's rendition of the songs on the French TV show is just amazing! The photo on the left comes from Lisa's performance at Stockholm's Jazz Festival in 2009.

"Hair" is a musical, anti-war comedy-drama, which tells the love and friendship story of a "tribe"of young hippie rebels who are doing sex, drugs and rock'n roll while they are trying to avoid the Vietnam war draft. It was directed by Milos Forman in 1979.

Here you can find a fill-in-the gap task, which has been designed for A2 students, so, B1 students will carry it out with ease, and here you can find the lesson-plan. The songs contain basic vocabulary for B1 students to revise the parts of the body etc, like: sweater, token, God, faith, anyway, brains, toes, liver, blood, headaches, toothaches, arms, chin, boobies, soul, freedom.