Sunday, August 03, 2003

All the Worlds in the English Language by The Animaniacs (TESOL Songsheet)

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All the Worlds in the English Language by The Animaniacs (1995)
action, adored, afraid, lie, limousine, lover, Zaire, zebra, zombie



And now, Yakko Warner sings all of the words in the English language!
Aardvark, abating, abet, abdicating
Abandon, abase and abreast
Ablaze and ablution, abhor and abusion
Abbreviate, abbey, abscessed.
Abduct and ablation, abridge and abrasion
Abash and abrupt and abride
Abscond and absentia, absent, abstentia
Abdomen, ably, abide.
Abominable, abrogate, absolute, absent
Absorbent, abstention, abstraction
Absurd and abundant, abusive, abutment
Acacia, academy, __________________.
Accede and accost and accept and across
And accompany, acre, accord
Accomplish, account and accrue and amount
Acrimonious, active, __________________.
Adrenaline, adulate, adder and advocate
Advertise, adverse, abrade
Advice, adversarial, advent and aerial
Affluent, after, __________________.

Well, there it is: Yakko Warner now well under way in singing all the words in the English language. I'm Dot Warner.  With me is Dick Button. Dick, a good start?
Oh, yes, Dot—a marvellous start to what is a difficult, difficult routine.
Stay tuned, and we'll be back to bring you the whole thing.

Level and levity, lewd and longevity
Libel, libation, Lanai
Lithium, litigate, legal, legitimate
Liberty, levy and __________________.

Welcome back. Yakko's now at the L's as he tries to sing all the words in the English language. A slight mistake at the F's—here's what it looked like:
Facial and faction and fractal and fraction
And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé
Frankincense, frankinship frankinsish shoot!
Yada yada flambé!
Now, that mistake could have proved costly for Yakko, but he recovered beautifully.
Now let's watch as Yakko continues with the L's.

Libation and libertine, limited, __________________.  
Limpid and limbo and lime
Lima and lipid and literature, liquid
And listing and liter and line.
There's lobby and loading and loathsome and loaning
And logo and then locomotion
There's lotus and lottery, lobo, lobotomy
Logic and loosen and lotion.
Lozenge and lubber and lucky and __________________
And lullaby, lumber and Luke
Luster and luscious and lunatic, lustrous
And lurking and lunar and lute.

Yakko's now about halfway through all the words in the English language. Dick Button and I will be back with more.

Zachary, Zanzibar, zappy and zamindar
Zillion and ZIP code and Zen
Zany and zoning and zeal and zirconium
Zodiac, __________________, zayin.

Yakko Warner, now moments away from having sung all the words in the English language. Dick Button, is he going to make it?
If it was anyone else, I'd say no, but he's young, he's resilient; we'll just have to see.

Zigging and zagging and zealous and __________________.  
And zenith and zap and zaffer
Zeppelin and zipper and zephyr and zither
Then zinc and zombini
And zoo and zucchini
And Zulu and Zorro
Then zit and Zamora
And zero and zoom and…ugh!

Guess not…
Wait!   _________________
He did it! Yakko Warner has just sung all the words in the English language!
Hey, congratulations, Yakko.
Thanks, Dick.
Join us next time, when Yakko Warner will sing all of the numbers above zero. Goodnight.
Answers:
And now, Yakko Warner sings all of the words in the English language!
Aardvark, abating, abet, abdicating
Abandon, abase and abreast
Ablaze and ablution, abhor and abusion
Abbreviate, abbey, abscessed.
Abduct and ablation, abridge and abrasion
Abash and abrupt and abride
Abscond and absentia, absent, abstentia
Abdomen, ably, abide.
Abominable, abrogate, absolute, absent
Absorbent, abstention, abstraction
Absurd and abundant, abusive, abutment
Acacia, academy, action.
Accede and accost and accept and across
And accompany, acre, accord
Accomplish, account and accrue and amount
Acrimonious, active, adored.
Adrenaline, adulate, adder and advocate
Advertise, adverse, abrade
Advice, adversarial, advent and aerial
Affluent, after, afraid.

Well, there it is: Yakko Warner now well under way in singing all the words in the English language. I'm Dot Warner.  With me is Dick Button. Dick, a good start?
Oh, yes, Dot—a marvellous start to what is a difficult, difficult routine.
Stay tuned, and we'll be back to bring you the whole thing.

Level and levity, lewd and longevity
Libel, libation, Lanai
Lithium, litigate, legal, legitimate
Liberty, levy and lie.

Welcome back. Yakko's now at the L's as he tries to sing all the words in the English language. A slight mistake at the F's—here's what it looked like:
Facial and faction and fractal and fraction
And fraudulent, fragrant, frappé
Frankincense, frankinship frankinsish shoot!
Yada yada flambé!
Now, that mistake could have proved costly for Yakko, but he recovered beautifully.
Now let's watch as Yakko continues with the L's.

Libation and libertine, limited, limousine
Limpid and limbo and lime
Lima and lipid and literature, liquid
And listing and liter and line.
There's lobby and loading and loathsome and loaning
And logo and then locomotion
There's lotus and lottery, lobo, lobotomy
Logic and loosen and lotion.
Lozenge and lubber and lucky and lover
And lullaby, lumber and Luke
Luster and luscious and lunatic, lustrous
And lurking and lunar and lute.

Yakko's now about halfway through all the words in the English language. Dick Button and I will be back with more.

Zachary, Zanzibar, zappy and zamindar
Zillion and ZIP code and Zen
Zany and zoning and zeal and zirconium
Zodiac, zombie, zayin.

Yakko Warner, now moments away from having sung all the words in the English language. Dick Button, is he going to make it?
If it was anyone else, I'd say no, but he's young, he's resilient; we'll just have to see.

Zigging and zagging and zealous and zebra
And zenith and zap and zaffer
Zeppelin and zipper and zephyr and zither
Then zinc and zombini
And zoo and zucchini
And Zulu and Zorro
Then zit and Zamora
And zero and zoom and…ugh!

Guess not…
Wait!  Zaire
He did it! Yakko Warner has just sung all the words in the English language!
Hey, congratulations, Yakko.
Thanks, Dick.
Join us next time, when Yakko Warner will sing all of the numbers above zero. Goodnight.


Saturday, August 02, 2003

U.N. Me by The Animaniacs (TESOL Songsheet)

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U.N. Me by The Animaniacs (1995)

assembly, cafeteria, cares, checks, first, fix, fun, goals, grudge, Japan, meet, plan, rare, spill



U.N. me
We had a bag of ____________
Down by the East Riverside
The United Nations there
Drives away a fellow's ____________
One hundred-eighty three countries ____________
Down by the East Riverside
New York, off 42nd Street.

See foreign states
With a ____________
Down by the East Riverside
United Nations tries to ____________
Wars, famine, and oil slicks
Boutros Boutros-Ghali-gee
Down by the East Riverside
Leads the General ____________.

The gift shop will take traveler's ____________
Down by the East Riverside
German tourists were not ____________
Buying T-shirts and flatware
Ate pastries from Liberia
Down by the East Riverside
At the U.N. ____________.

Took a tour with some Dutch
Down by the East Riverside
We had a guide from ____________
Who had a decent pension ____________
Some costly artwork from Brazil
Down by the East Riverside
On which my soda I did ____________.

U.N. me, we had a bag of fun
Down by the East Riverside
Saw flags on shiny poles
From lands with lofty ____________
We'll beat our swords into liverwurst
Down by the East Riverside
But no one wants to be the ____________.

But then, I guess it could be worse
We could still sing one more verse
U.N. me! 





Answers:

U.N. me
We had a bag of fun
Down by the East Riverside
The United Nations there
Drives away a fellow's cares
One hundred-eighty three countries meet
Down by the East Riverside
New York, off 42nd Street.

See foreign states
With a grudge
Down by the East Riverside
United Nations tries to fix
Wars, famine, and oil slicks
Boutros Boutros-Ghali-gee
Down by the East Riverside
Leads the General Assembly.

The gift shop will take traveler's checks
Down by the East Riverside
German tourists were not rare
Buying T-shirts and flatware
Ate pastries from Liberia
Down by the East Riverside
At the U.N. cafeteria.

Took a tour with some Dutch
Down by the East Riverside
We had a guide from Japan
Who had a decent pension plan
Some costly artwork from Brazil
Down by the East Riverside
On which my soda I did spill.

U.N. me, we had a bag of fun
Down by the East Riverside
Saw flags on shiny poles
From lands with lofty goals
We'll beat our swords into liverwurst
Down by the East Riverside
But no one wants to be the first.

But then, I guess it could be worse
We could still sing one more verse
U.N. me!



Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers (TESOL Songsheet)

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Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers
away, danger, day, day, find, lips, makes, mind, say, slip, stranger, takes

There's a man who leads a life of __________
To everyone he meets he stays a __________
With every move he __________

Another chance he __________
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Beware of pretty faces that you __________

A pretty face can hide an evil __________
Oh, be careful what you __________
Or you'll give yourself __________
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Swinging on the Riviera one __________

And then laying in a Bombay alley next __________
Oh, don't you let the wrong words __________
While kissing persuasive __________
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name



Answers
There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a
stranger
With every move he
makes
Another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Beware of pretty faces that you
find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Oh, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Swinging on the Riviera one
day
And then laying in a Bombay alley next day
Oh, don't you let the wrong words slip
While kissing persuasive lips
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number and taken away your name


Friday, August 01, 2003

Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic (TESOL Songsheet)

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Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic (2014) lyrics
apparent, breather, care, class, clown, coincidence, comma, conjugate, contraction, contraction, crimes, dangling deal, definitions, difference, distinguish, down, drama, drool, due, e-mail, emphasis, English, errant, espresso, fewer, find, grammar, grammar, hire, incoherent, less, linguist, literal, little, mangling, mission, moron, nomenclature, notes, number, online, pool, possessive, prepositions, proofreader, pronoun, school, sewer, skull, spellchecker, stammer, tell, too, way, well, you



Everybody shut up, WOO!
Everyone listen up! Hey, hey, hey, uh Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey
If you can't write in the proper _____________
If you don't know how to _____________
Maybe you flunked that _____________
And maybe now you _____________
That people mock you _____________
Okay, now here's the _____________
I'll try to educate ya
Gonna familiarize you with the _____________
You'll learn the _____________
Of nouns and _____________
Literacy's your _____________
And that's why I think it's a
Good time
To learn some _____________
Now, did I _____________
Work on that _____________
You should know when It's less or it's _____________
Like people who were never raised in a _____________
I hate these word _____________
Like I could care _____________
That means you do _____________
At least a _____________
Don't be a _____________
You'd better slow _____________
And use the right _____________
Show the world you're no _____________
Everybody wise up!
Say you got an "I","T" followed by apostrophe, "s"
Now what does that mean?
You would not use "it's" in this case
As a _____________
It's a _____________
What's a _____________?
Well, it's the shortening of a word, or a group of words By the omission of a sound or letter
Okay, now here's some _____________
Syntax you're always _____________
No x in _____________
Your participle's _____________
But I don't want your _____________
If you really wanna
Leave out that Oxford _____________
Just keep in mind
That "be", "see", "are", "you" Are words, not letters Get it together
Use your _____________
You should never write words using _____________
Unless you're seven
Or your name is Prince
I hate these word crimes
You really need a
Full time _____________
You dumb mouth-_____________
Well, you should _____________
Some cunning _____________
To help you _____________
What is proper _____________
One thing I ask of _____________
Time to learn your homophones is past _____________
Learn to diagram a sentence _____________
Always say "to whom"
Don't ever say "to who"
And listen up when I tell you this
I hope you never use quotation marks for _____________
You finished second grade
I hope you can _____________
If you're doing good or doing _____________
About better figure out the _____________
Irony is not _____________
And I thought that you'd gotten it through your _____________
What's figurative and what's _____________
Oh but, just now, you said
You literally couldn't get out of bed
That really makes me want to literally
Smack a crowbar upside your stupid head
I read your _____________
It's quite_____________
Your grammar's _____________
You're _____________
Saw your blog post
It's really fantastic
That was sarcastic (Oh, psych!)
'Cause you write like a spastic
I hate these Word Crimes
Your prose is dopey
Think you should only
Write in emoji
Oh, you're a lost cause
Go back to pre-_____________
Get out of the gene _____________
Try your best to not _____________
Never mind I give up Really now I give up Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey Go Away!
Answers
Everybody shut up, WOO!
Everyone listen up! Hey, hey, hey, uh Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey
If you can't write in the proper way
If you don't know how to conjugate
Maybe you flunked that class
And maybe now you find
That people mock you online
Okay, now here's the deal
I'll try to educate ya
Gonna familiarize you with the nomenclature
You'll learn the definitions
Of nouns and prepositions
Literacy's your mission
And that's why I think it's a
Good time
To learn some grammar
Now, did I stammer
Work on that grammar
You should know when It's less or it's fewer
Like people who were never raised in a sewer
I hate these word crimes
Like I could care less
That means you do care
At least a little
Don't be a moron
You'd better slow down
And use the right pronoun
Show the world you're no clown
Everybody wise up!
Say you got an "I","T" followed by apostrophe, "s"
Now what does that mean?
You would not use "it's" in this case
As a possessive
It's a contraction
What's a contraction?
Well, it's the shortening of a word, or a group of words By the omission of a sound or letter
Okay, now here's some notes
Syntax you're always mangling
No x in espresso
Your participle's dangling
But I don't want your drama
If you really wanna
Leave out that Oxford comma
Just keep in mind
That "be", "see", "are", "you"
Are words, not letters
Get it together
Use your spellchecker
You should never write words using numbers
Unless you're seven
Or your name is Prince
I hate these word crimes
You really need a
Full time proofreader
You dumb mouth-breather
Well, you should hire
Some cunning linguist
To help you distinguish
What is proper English
One thing I ask of you
Time to learn your homophones is past due
Learn to diagram a sentence too
Always say "to whom"
Don't ever say "to who"
And listen up when I tell you this
I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis
You finished second grade
I hope you can tell
If you're doing good or doing well
About better figure out the difference
Irony is not coincidence
And I thought that you'd gotten it through your skull
What's figurative and what's literal
Oh but, just now, you said
You literally couldn't get out of bed
That really makes me want to literally
Smack a crowbar upside your stupid head
I read your e-mail
It's quite apparent
Your grammar's errant
You're incoherent
Saw your blog post
It's really fantastic
That was sarcastic (Oh, psych!)
'Cause you write like a spastic
I hate these Word Crimes
Your prose is dopey
Think you should only
Write in emoji
Oh, you're a lost cause
Go back to pre-school
Get out of the gene pool
Try your best to not drool
Never mind I give up Really now I give up Hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey Go Away!