Співай пісні та вчи англійську: Linkin Park - Numb

Привіт! Сьогодні понеділок! Нехай, він в основному «день важкий», я сподіваюся, що після прослуховування пісні з нашої щотижневої рубрики «Sing and Learn», він стане трішки легше. Сьогодні у нас в гостях група Linkin Park і їх пісня Numb.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Do not know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)

I've become so numb I can not feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

Can not you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take

I've become so numb I can not feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

I've become so numb I can not feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

I've become so numb I can not feel you there
 [I'm tired of being what you want me to be]
I've become so numb I can not feel you there
 [I'm tired of being what you want me to be]

Grammar

У плані граматики ця пісня порадує нас дієприкметними оборотами, Participle Clauses in English.

• Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
• Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow
• Holding too tightly afraid to lose control

Прочитати про них детальніше можна тут

Present Perfect:

• I've become so numb I can not feel you there
• I've become so tired so much more aware
• Has fallen apart right in front of you

Ми про нього досить багато говорили в попередніх випусках, але ще одна mind map точно не зашкодить:

Dependent prepositions:

• I'm tired of being what you want me to be
• Do not know what you're expecting of me

Так-так, і ми завжди будемо використовувати of після виділених слів. Все тому, що існує список дієслів, прикметників і іменників, після яких використовуються тільки конкретні прийменники, наприклад:

• Believe in, rely on, be famous for, etc.

Великий список ви можете побачити тут.

Vocabulary:

• Faithless (adj) - not loyal and not able to be trusted (Mark has cheated on his wife. He is so faithless)
• Numb (adj) - If a part of your body is numb, you can not feel it (My feet were numb with cold.)
• Smother (v) - to kill someone by covering their face with something so that they can not breathe (It is said that Othello smothered Desdemona)
• Waste (v) - to use too much of something or use something badly when there is a limited amount of it (Anna wasted her money on one more pair of awful leggings)
• End up (phr v) - to finally be in a particular place or situation (I never thought he'd end up as a Bollywood star)

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