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Describe a line or a few words that you remember from a poem or a song.
You should say what it is, which song or poem it is from, how you knew it and explain how you feel about it.
Right, dear listener!
So, a line from a song, all right, or from a poem!
Do you know any poems, like Shakespeare?
Maybe your favorite poems that you learned in childhood?
Yeah, a line is like a line, one line from a song or from a poem.
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Give us your story.
Well, I quite like some of the phrasing in Scotland the Brave. It's not an official national anthem or anything since we're in the UK.
This is actually God Save the King, although I doubt many Scottish people would be caught dead singing that.
Instead, it serves as a sort of de facto national song along with a few others that people use in sports matches and political rallies there is a particular line in it which is Land of my heart forever Scotland the brave which I find quite inspiring especially when it's set to music.
I like national anthems like that which appeal to the country as a whole working at its finest and best as opposed to songs which sort of glorify specific individuals.
A country isn't a person, in my opinion.
It's the people that live there.
So that line fits with this idea perfectly.
I can't pinpoint a specific time when I came to know of the song.
People have been singing it for decades, if not longer.
And even if you don't learn it at school you can pick it up from football crowds, for example.
However, I vaguely remember learning it at school, in music lessons, a really long time ago now.
The music that it gets set to has a regular beat that's easy to follow and it's not a million miles long like God Save the King, which makes it easier to remember as well.
It's a funny experience when you sing the song, at least for me, since even though I'm not a musical person I really get into singing that song when it gets sung at different events.
It's easy to get carried away by it, which I suppose is the idea, to evoke or stoke national pride in people.
If I'd never heard it, I think my experience of national anthems would be pretty impoverished.
Though of course, as a Scottish nationalist, I would say that, wouldn't I?
And what about your friends, do they like the song?
I haven't heard them complaining about it!
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See you soon Scotland the Brave. Okay I'm googling.
Dear listener, you should listen to the song.
Okay? Scotland the Brave. That's a good tone.
Aw, dear listeners, it's very cute that Rory told us about his, y 'know, Scottish song, but you can describe a line from any song.
I feel like people know their national anthems best, though, and you can use this expression National Anthem.
Or it could be from Ariana's song.
Yes! Oh, it's awesome!
Um, a line from, uh, you know, Baby Shark to -to -to do, Baby Shark to -to -to do.
Oh, yeah, I know a line from a song Baby Shark, hmm?
Got to be a song that you like though.
I think everyone hates that song.
Yeah, but if you go to YouTube, this song, Baby Shark, uh, has how many billion views?
Uhh, yes, I don't know if that's an indication of the quality, though.
But it does - Actually, I've misinterpreted the task.
It says the song that you remember, but I suppose that would count.
So you can say that I quite like the phrasing in _____ song.
So you like the phrases.
You like the words.
So maybe you have a national song or your national anthem, and you like this particular line, or these particular phrases.
So you can say that I like the phrasing in _____ song.
It's an official national anthem or it's not an official national anthem, it's just like a song that is popular in your country, or again, to listen, it could be any song, it could be The Beatles.
Love, love me do, you know I love you.
Maybe yesterday you like The Beatles.
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Ah, beautiful. Paul McCartney.
Hello, Paul. If you're listening to this podcast, you know, we love you, yeah, you know the drill We can sing the Beatles songs, no problem It serves them as a national song for Scottish people and The song is called Scotland's the brave Yeah, and there is a particular line in it which goes like this land of my heart forever Scotland the brave home and could you could you sing it Rory like how does it land my heart forever Scotland the brave so it's kind of like a regular beat oh no I see very cute look it's about my country like land of my heart forever Scotland the brave Wow Brave Scotland.
Yeah dear listener.
Have you seen this film with Mel Gibson – Braveheart?
It's about Scotland.
Go watch Braveheart.
With Mel Gibson. Maybe he sings this song?
I don't think he does.
The song is not that old.
I find this song quite inspiring.
So, it inspires me.
And I find this line – inspiring.
So the music is nice.
So if we find something it's not like, oh, I found it.
It's, um, it's, I understand it like this.
So this song glorifies, um, the country.
So this song kind of is about the country as a whole.
So it appeals to the country as a whole, not just one person.
I don't remember a specific time when I came to know of the song.
So, if you don't remember when you found the song, you can say I can't really pinpoint a specific time.
So, I can't really say when I found the song or I can't really pinpoint a specific time when I knew about the song or when I came to know of the song.
So I came to know of the song at a birthday party or at school or unknown, in a taxi.
Or when I went to Turkey to an only exclusive hotel.
Everybody was singing baby shark two, baby shark two, and this is the only line from a song that I remember.
Again, why not, Dylzli?
Baby shark, mommy shark two, I feel like the song about the people working at their best is much better than baby shark.
People have been singing this song for decades, so for many years people have been singing it.
Present perfect continues.
Maybe I learnt it at school or maybe I picked it up from my friends.
So if you heard your friends singing this song you can say I picked it up from my friends.
I heard it from my friends.
You can also say that I vaguely remember learning it at school.
so I don't remember learning it at school or I kind of vaguely remember I don't really remember the music has a regular beat so suck baby shock to do to to to do to to to to to to to to to to do so this is a regular beat of the song and that's easy to follow so the music is easy to follow so it's easy to sing alone which makes it easy to remember.
And Baby Shark is definitely easy to follow, easy to remember.
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I'm not a musical person, but I enjoy this song.
So I'm not a musician, but I enjoy singing alone.
So when you sing along, you sing the song.
I really get into singing that song.
So when I hear this song I get into singing.
I just start singing.
Hey Rory, come on, you could have give us some Tunes give us something new from the song.
Yeah, how does it go again?
Well this sort of it of My heart no, it's more regular So the chorus is always and it repeats about seven times towering in gallant fame Scotland my mountain Heym.
Heym is the Scottish word for home.
I may your proud standards gloriously wave. A standard is like a flag for a country.
You should sing, you should sing like I know but people must understand the words.
Ah okay. Then we've got land of my high endeavour land of the shining river land of my heart forever Scotland the brave. Aw.
So now that we've explained what choruses, I will now sing the chorus.
Oh, oh, dear listener, so cute, you see.
Yeah, you might tell a story about a song from your country.
Ken, do you have it that everybody knows of?
And this song is very popular, yeah?
So all Scottish people know the song and sing along, right?
I think most people probably know the words.
They might not know every single verse but they definitely know the words to the chorus.
It does get sung at different events.
So people sing it at different events.
Scottish people and English people don't sing it, They sing something else.
Well, they might sing if they're feeling friendly.
Yes. So you can say like, this song gets sung, sung by people, sing, sang, sung.
So it gets sung at different events or people sing it at different events.
It's easy to get carried away by the song.
So you start singing and then you forget, oh, everything.
And you forget where you're from and what you're doing.
So it's easy to get carried away.
And it evokes national pride in Scottish people because the song is very patriotic.
It's about Scotland, the brave. So it evokes national pride in Scottish people.
And now Rory's showtime!
Yes, it's the part of the episode where I ask Maria questions about the grammar and vocabulary.
you can follow along.
So, to begin with Maria, I said that Scotland The Brave is not the national anthem of my country, but I didn't say it's not the national anthem.
I said something a little bit different.
It's not a official national anthem or anything.
Or there was something else that I said that has a similar meaning.
It serves as a sort of de facto national Yes so there's du jour in law and de facto is just in reality this is what it is.
And then I moved on to describe my feelings about it and I said I found it and a particular emotion.
But what was that emotion?
Inspiring, I feel inspired or I find it quite inspiring.
Excellent. And then, I moved on to describe a different song, God Save the King, which is a very long song, but I used a different expression to describe that.
It's not a million miles long.
Well if something is very long, then it is a million miles long, but if it's not a million miles long, then it's short.
And then, towards the end Maria, I used a particular grammar structure to show off my flexible pronunciation.
What was that structure?
A tag -fancy band -nine question.
So you say, I would say that wouldn't I?
Or you say, I would say that wouldn't I?
Yes. Going down, so not asking an actual question.
We're going down to make it flat.
I would say that wouldn't I?
Mmmm, I would say that wouldn't I.
As a Scottish nationalist I would say that wouldn't I Rory is a Scottish nationalist. Mmm.
What does it mean Rory to be a Scottish nationalist?
It just means that I don't want Scotland in the United Kingdom I'd like us to be our own independent country Yes dear listener, as you know a cotish people want to be Scottish and English people want to be English So they are kind of...
They are in Great Britain, but they are separate So you should pick up a song that is popular in your country, or that is popular all over the world.
I don't know. The Beatles, Rihanna.
And choose a line or you can talk about a poem by Shakespeare or maybe you learn something at school like your favorite poet in your country and describe a line from a poem about you should be able to translate it into English so if I were you I'd pick an English song all right what are the popular songs these days so what do people listen to you know lady gaga brought out a new song does that count?
Oh yes you can talk about Lady Gaga's song okay and a line or again just go for the Beatles.
If you know any Beatles songs I don't, but on the subject of Beatles it's time for us to scuttle off to part three.
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These apply. Describe a line or a few words that you remember from a poem or a song.
You should say what it is, which song or poem it is from, how you knew it, and explain how you feel about it.
Well, I quite like some of the phrasing in Scotland the Brave. It's not an official national anthem or anything, since we're in the UK.
This is actually God save the King.
– although I doubt many Scottish people would be caught dead singing that – instead it serves as a sort of de facto national song along with a few others that people use in sports matches and political rallies.
There's a particular line in it which is land of my heart forever, Scotland the Brave, which I find quite inspiring especially when it's set to music.
– I like national anthems, like that which appealed to the country as a whole working at its finest and best, as opposed to songs which sort of glorify specific individuals.
A country isn't a person, in my opinion, it's the people that live there.
So that line fits with this idea perfectly.
I can't pinpoint a specific time when I came to know of the song, people have been singing it for decades, if not longer.
And even if you don't learn it in school you can pick it up from football crowds for example.
However I vaguely remember learning it at school in music lessons a really long time ago now.
The music that it gets set to has a regular beat that's easy to follow and it's not a million miles long like God Save the King which makes it easier to remember as well.
It's a funny experience when you sing the song, at least for me since even though I'm not a musical person I really get into singing that song when it does get sung at different events.
It's easy to get carried away by it, which I suppose is the idea, to evoke or stoke national pride in people.
If I'd never heard it I think my experience of national anthems would be pretty impoverished.
Though of course, as a Scottish nationalist, I would say that, wouldn't I?
And what about your friends, do they like the song?
I haven't heard them complaining about it.
