Thursday, March 09, 2017

You Don't Own Me by Lesley Gore--to+ infinitive verb patterns

(TESOL Worksheets--Word Patterns, Infinitive Verbs)

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In my class, I used this to supplement the Life Pre-Intermediate Textbook Lesson 6A Changing Your Life p.70-71
This worksheet was also partially inspired by Rules, Patterns and Words by Dave Willis, and I had previously posted it in my review of that book.

You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore (1964)
Listen to the song and write in the missing phrases.  


You don't own me
I'm not just one of your many toys
You don't own me
Don't say I can't go with other boys
And don't tell me what ________________
Don't tell me what ________________
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display
'cause
You don't own me
Don't try ________________ me in any way
You don't own me
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay
I don't tell you what ________________
I don't tell you what ________________
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you
I'm young and I love ________________ young
I'm free and I love ________________ free ________________ my life the way I want, ________________ and do whatever I please
And don't tell me what ________________
Oh, don't tell me what ________________
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display
I don't tell you what ________________
Oh, I don't tell you what ________________
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you
I'm young and I love ________________ young
I'm free and I love ________________ free ________________


Can you find these patterns?


tell
person
what
to + inf


















verb
to+ inf






adjective
to+ inf








Answers:


You don't own me
I'm not just one of your many toys
You don't own me
Don't say I can't go with other boys
And don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display
'cause
You don't own me
Don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay
I don't tell you what to say
I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you
I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free To live my life the way I want, To say and do whatever I please
And don't tell me what to do
Oh, don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display
I don't tell you what to say
Oh, I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you
I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free To live


Can you find these patterns?


tell
person
what
to + inf
don’t tell
me
what
to do
don’t tell
me
what
to say
I don’t tell
you
what
to do
I don’t tell
you
what
to do


verb
to+ inf
don’t try
to change
I love
to be


adjective
to+ inf
free
to live
free
to say


(In the line: I'm free and I love to be free To live my life the way I want, To say and do whatever I please, “to live” and “to say” are both related to free)

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