Lesson Introduction
As Friedrich Nietzsche said, "Without music, life would be an error" and here at EnglishPod we
believe this to be true! Join Catherine and Marco today as they will teach you about music genres
and plenty of useful phrases. Do you know a lot about music? Listen to this podcast and prove it!
Host: Welcome back, music lovers, to "I Love That Song"! The game show where we test your musical knowledge to the extreme! Let's get started! Team A... Guess this tune:
Team A: Carrying Your Love With Me by George Straight! The genre is country music!
Host: You are right! one hundred points to team A! Now, for our next cut.
Team B: Thong Song by Sisqo! I believe the genre is R&B?
Host: One hundred big points for team B! For all our viewers the acronym R&B stands for Rhythm and Blues. On that note, DJ, play our next song!
Team B: Superstar by The Carpenters!
Host: And the genre?
Team B: Um... Um... Adult Contemporary?
Host: That's right! A hundred points! Uh oh! That sound means it's double or nothing! The songs are more difficult and the points are doubled! Let's hear our next song!
Team A: Too easy! That song is Kinslayer by the Finnish power metal group, Nightwish!
Host: You are correct! Very impressive team A! And it seems we have a tie! It's time now for the tie-breaker round! Each team will be played three songs and they must tell us the genre of each song in less than five seconds! Team A, are you ready?
Team A: Ready!
Host: Let's hear it!
Team A: Hip Hop, Classical and Gothic metal!
Host: You are right! Team B, the pressure is on, if you get all of them right, we will move on to sudden death. If you miss one, you lose! DJ, Let's hear it!
Team B: Rap, Disco and... and...
genre a kind of literary or artistic work
acronym abbreviations
sudden death extra time to determine a winner after a tie
the pressure is on the outcome or result depends on you
double or nothing used when you want to bet twice as much
air guitar when a person pretends to play the guitar when listening to music
a capella to sing without any instruments or music
encore a demand by an audience for an additional performance at the end of a concert
chorus a part of a song repeated after each verse
hit a person or thing that gains wide appeal or fame
double or nothing
► This is so exciting! Peter is playing blackjack and he just went double or nothing!
► I lost ten thousand dollars tonight! I'm going to go double or nothing to try and get my money back!
►If you bet double or nothing, you are likely to lose everything!
sudden death
► What an exciting volleyball game that was! I can't believe the game was decided by sudden death!
► We went out to a bar last night to watch the football game. The winner was decided by sudden death!
► The soccer game is in sudden death now! The first player to score wins the game!
the pressure is on
► The pressure is on our entire team to successfully come up with a new product for the Asian market within a month.
►The pressure is on the president to guide his country out of the recession.
►Carl is really stressed out lately. The pressure of the entire project is on him since his promotion.
acronym
► ATM is a well known acronym for Automatic Teller Machine.
► Did you know that "laser" is the acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation?
►The most well known acronym in the world is "O.K" although people still aren't sure what it stands for.
genre
► I think mystery is one of the most fascinating literary genres.
►I was reading in the newspaper that there are over two hundred music genres in the world.
► My family doesn't like to watch certain movie genres such as horror, musicals and action.