WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
(Louis Armstrong)
1- I see trees of green
2- Red roses too,
3- I see them bloom
4- for me and you,
5- and I think to myself
6- what a wonderful world
7- I see skies of blue,
8- and clouds of white,
9- the bright blessed day
10- the dark sacred night
11- and I think to myself
12- what a wonderful
13- the colors of the rainbow,
14- so pretty in the sky
15- are also on the faces
16- of people going by
17- I see friends shaking hands
18- saying “How do you do?”
19- they’re really saying,
20- “I love you”
21- I hear babies cry,
22- I watch them grow
23- They’ll learn much more
24- Than I’ll ever know
25- and I think to myself
26- what a wonderful world
27- yes, I think to myself
28- what a wonderful world
VOCABULARY
To bloom – florescer, florir
Clouds – nuvens
Blessed - abençoado
Sacred – sagrado
Rainbow – arco-íris
To go by – passar
To shake hands – apertar as mãos
To watch – ver, assistir
Tto grow – crescer
Than – do que
EXERCISES
1) Put the sentences 1, 5, 19 and 20 into the negative form:
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2) Put the sentences 3, 5, 15 and 19 in the simple past tense:
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3) Put the sentences 20, 21, 22 and 23 into the interrogative form:
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4)What are the colors mentioned in the music?
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