Here are some excerpts from different songs. For each excerpt, there are two things to do: Guess the missing word or words. Tell who the song is from.
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Bertrand Russell’s message to future generations
This is from BBC’s Face to Face interview with Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, in 1959. …
When you are around twenty…
The Talking Point series provides an opportunity to discuss things in English, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted as saying “To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.” What was going on in the world when you were around 20 … Continue Reading
The dreamers of the day
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find it was in vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -T.E. Lawrence.
One day you will wake up and…
One day you’ll wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. — Paulo Coelho
Who is the guilty one?
What do you think of this quote? Do you agree with Victor Hugo?