Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h4EEIcC06202; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <sec1fb4f.022@nmail.epcc.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Andres Muro" <AndresM@epcc.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8963] Re: English immersion X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.5 Status: O Content-Length: 776 Lines: 20 Another patriotic song reflecting American ideology is "with god on our side". ESL students will love to listen and interpret this song. Andres >>> WMFisher40@aol.com 05/14/03 07:24AM >>> My wife Solveig uses songs such as "This Land is My Land" and "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" quite successfully in her ESL classes, and the students love them. But you have to be careful with them because songwriters often use their poetic license to violate normal rules of usage. For instance, in Woody Guthrie's "This Land ...", he says "... to the New York Island ...". This just sounds wrong to me, probably because "the" usually requires a unique referent, and I don't know what, exactly, he's talking about -- Manhattan? Long Island? Keewaydin? - Bill Fisher
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