Plan
- Introduce the singer and the song. Give some information.
- Introduce the vocabulary from the song.
- Present simple review
- Listening and doing the tasks
- Discussion
1. Sting, born Gordon Sumner, is an English singer, songwriter and philanthropist best known as the frontman of The Police.
Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on October 2, 1951. He is best known for his singing career, both with the 1980s band The Police and as a solo artist. Sting is also a distinguished songwriter and actor, as well as an active philanthropist in causes from environmentalism to human rights.
Overview
Born Gordon Matthew Sumner on October 2, 1951, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Sting first rose to fame as part of the legendary rock group The Police in the 1970s and '80s, later making a name for himself as a successful solo artist. He earned his unusual nickname from the black and yellow sweater he used to wear during his early days as a musician.
Shape of my heart
Sting (from a 1993 promotional interview): "I wanted to write about a card player, a gambler who gambles not to win but to try and figure out something; to figure out some kind of mystical logic in luck, or chance; some kind of scientific, almost religious law. So this guy's a philosopher, he's not playing for respect and he's not playing for money, he's just trying to figure out the law - there has to be some logic to it. He's a poker player so it's not easy for him to express his emotions, in fact he doesn't express anything, he has a mask, and it's just one mask and it never changes.
2. Match
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4. Sting ‘The Shape of My Heart’
1. Put the verbs in the correct Present Simple form.
He______(to deal) the cards as a meditation
And those he ______(to play) never suspect
He _______(not/to play) for the money he _____(to win)
He ______(not/to play) for respect
He ______(to deal) the card to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers______(to lead) a dance
He may play to the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of his spades
He not may conceal a king in his hand
While the big memory of it fades
You’d maybe think there’s something wrong
I’m not a man of too many faces
The mask I is _____one
And ______to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are______
That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
[Refrain] Complete the missing words
I know that the spades are the swords of a ________
I know that the clubs are weapons of _______
I know that mean_______ money for this art
But that’s not the________ of my heart