This week I discovered that most of my teenage students want to be famous! So I brought this song into class and we talked about the difference between being famous and being well-known. What do you think the difference is? I’m not going to give you the missing words this time, so listen very carefully. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Lesson by Caroline
'Famous' - Scouting for Girls
Staying in again on a _(1)_ night,
I’m going to settle on the _(2)_ and turn down the lights.
I got 900 _(3)_ but there’s nothing to see,
No wonder everybody thinks they should be on TV.
We all want to be _(4)_.
Be a face on the screen.
Read our name in the _(5)_.
Everybody wants to be on TV.
Everybody wants to be on TV.
Forget Audrey Hepburn, Forget Bette Davis.
I want to be _(6)_, just for being famous.
I can’t act, I can’t dance, I can’t _(7)_, can’t you see?
But I’m young and I’m _(8)_ and that’s all that you need.
We all want to be _(9)_.
Be a face on the screen.
Read our name in the _(10)_.
Everybody wants to be on TV.
Everybody wants to be like James Dean.
I want to be the _(11)_ tonight,
And complain about _(12)_ in a story I sell to the news.
I want to be the star tonight,
Want to make the front page as I pose for the boys in the nude.
We all want to be _(13)_.
Be a face on the screen.
Read our name in the _(14)_.
Everybody wants to be like James Dean.
Music Video Lesson: The Beauty in Ugly (Pre Intermediate Level Listening)
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Comments
Music lesson.
Nice and simple song. I got one incorrect but at general it wasn't difficult. Thank you Caroline for another one great music lesson.
Be Famous
Only 2 mistakes.:( The first word - I heard 2 words, and the 12 - I didn't hear FAME.
I think famous and well-known have the same meaning. May br well-known is more narrow deffenition.
Thank you for the Lesson!:)
   I hope it is a very
I hope it is a very ironic song. Our world is so stupid now! It is really bullshit to want to be famouse.
Unfortunately, many young peple belive that is enough to be pretty for became famous.
Both of these words have a very close meaning with tiny difference. But if Charles Dickens is a famous writer, Alan Watts is well-known.
 heey I didn't here fame
heey I didn't hear fame too :)
me too. what I heard for
Me too. And the word that I heard for the fame is famous.
Thanks for the lesson.