Learn English with this Try by Colbie Caillat English lesson
Date: Sep 05 2014
Themes: Celebrity, Fashion, Music, Pop Culture
Grammar: Contractions and Abbreviations
Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat is a pop star who is tired of the infamous glitz and glam associated with the Hollywood limelight. Instead of encouraging women to continue to put on makeup and always look perfect, Coblie’s newest music video “Try,” shows her stripping it away. She and other actresses and models take off their makeup during the video, and they all still look gorgeous.
The video is moving, perhaps, because it’s so personal. Many women believe their value comes from their body image, not from their personality. “Try” encourages women by telling them they are beautiful, no matter what they look like. It’s a song that shows women their true self worth is not based on looking like Photoshop pictures, but on being real people.
Do Gary and Jessica agree with Colbie Caillat’s song? Find out in today’s English lesson about beauty.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jessica: I saw the most beautiful, moving music video the other day.
Gary: Really?
Jessica: It was Colbie Caillat.
Gary: She’s great.
Jessica: I know. I love her. It was her music video for her new song “Try.”
Gary: Oh, I’ve heard that on the radio. It’s really good.
Jessica: It’s a great song anyway, but the music video was so beautiful. She basically starts the video, and she looks gorgeous and has all this makeup on.
Gary: Yeah, yeah.
Jessica: And then, slowly, all of the actresses and models, you start to realize, are just real people, and they…
Gary: Oh, because all their makeup is coming off, so you see them without the lipstick and eye shadow.
Jessica: Exactly. And they do this really cool split screen, so you see on one side of the screen the person with all of their makeup on, looking beautiful.
Gary: And the other side without?
Jessica: Exactly.
Gary: Oh, that is so cool.
Jessica: And you see them stripping it away, and they’re still so beautiful.
Gary: Yeah.
Jessica: And it’s just showing you that without all the glitz and glam, we are all still beautiful.
Gary: That’s really wonderful.
Jessica: I know.
Gary: I really want to see that.
Jessica: I know. It made me cry. You have to check it out.
Gary: I’m going to go look for it right now, actually.
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Discussion
Jessica and Gary are discussing Colbie Caillat’s new music video “Try.” Jessica’s seen the video, and Gary’s heard the song. Both friends agree that the message of self worth for women is important and powerful.
Jessica thinks that the women in the video are just as beautiful without makeup as they are with it on. Gary thinks that it’s a cool idea. Since the video is so moving, Jessica lets Gary know that she cried when she watched it. Gary tells Jessica that he’s going to look up the video right away.
Have you seen Colbie Caillat’s “Try”? What do you think is important for self-worth?
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