This is the presentation that accompanied my free online English lesson, based on a song - Californication. You can register for future lessons here: https://anglonomicon.clickmeeting.pl/

1. Webinar: learn English with a song -
Californication

2. Do you like learning English with songs?

3. Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want this kind of dreams
It's Californication

4. Psychic (= using supernatural powers) spies (= people stealing other
country’s secrets) from China
Try to steal your mind's elation (= great happiness)
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations (= writing at the end of film)
And if you want this kind of dreams
It's Californication

5. It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

6. It's the edge (= end) of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise (= go up) in the East
At least it settles (= goes down) in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

7. Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging

8. Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell (= remove magic) of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging (= running)

9. Chorus:
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

10. Chorus:
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

11. Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

12. Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

13. Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication

14. Space may be the final frontier (= border)
But it's made in a Hollywood basement (= floor
under the ground)
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderaan's not far away
It's Californication

15. Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population
Everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation

16. Born and raised (= brought up) by those who
praise (= say sth is good)
Control of population
Everybody's been there and
I don't mean on vacation

17. First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

18. Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

19. Destruction leads to a very rough (= not smooth)
road
But it also breeds (= creates) creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves (= big sea waves) couldn't save
the world
From Californication

20. Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving

21. Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving (= desiring
strongly)

22. First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

23. Do you think Californication exists?

24. Vocabulary practice

25. A beautiful girl would have to kiss him to
b………………… the spell.

26. A beautiful girl would have to kiss him to break
the spell.

27. I'm always sea-sick if the water is r………………………

28. I'm always sea-sick if the water is rough

29. Many young children c…………………… attention.

30. Many young children crave attention.

31. My parents always p……………………. me when I did
well at school.

32. My parents always praised me when I did well at
school.

33. Nepal has f…………………… with both India and
China.

34. Nepal has frontiers with both India and China.

35. Olaf is my f………………….-born.

36. Olaf is my first-born.

37. Our kitchenware department is in the
b……………………….

38. Our kitchenware department is in the basement.

39. As a child, she used to think there were
f…………………… at the bottom of her garden

40. As a child, she used to think there were fairies at
the bottom of her garden

41. Surely the President needs Congress' permission
to w……………… war on another country?

42. Surely the President needs Congress' permission
to wage war on another country?

43. The house had been empty for years, and dust
had s…………………….. on all the surfaces.

44. The house had been empty for years, and dust
had settled on all the surfaces.

45. There's a sense of e………………… at having
completed a race of such length.

46. There's a sense of elation at having completed a
race of such length.

47. Which words do you remember from today?

48. Which words do you remember from today?
Psychic
Spy
Elation
Quotations
Edge
Rise
Settle
Break the spell
Wage a war
First born
Unicorn
Hard core
Fairy
Get high on
Boulevard
Frontier
Basement
Raise
Praise
Rough
Breed
Tidal wave
Crave

49. Więcej ciekawostek:
www.anglonomicon.pl
www.facebook.com/anglonomicon
Niniejsza prezentacja objęta jest prawami autorskimi Katarzyny Sielickiej | Anglonomicon