Wonderful World

Handcolored etching and Photogravure Satchmo by Adi Holzer 2002

 I´d like to start by introducing myself. My name is Ángeles and I work as a teacher of English in a Secondary School near Madrid. I started this blog some time ago  but the point is that I haven´t used it at all except for some practice in the design of the blog itself. Maybe the time has come for a new era in my teaching and this post is the first of a never ending sequence of many others resulting from a new approach in the way I deal with teenagers and their learning of the English language.

As I like music so much and students always find learning through music really motivating I´d like to start this blog with a song by Louis Armstrong (New Orleans1901-New York 1971) which I usually use when teaching the Simple Present Tense: What a Wonderful World. It´s easy, it can be easily followed and it is a chant to living when Spring is not around and the sun is not shining. Besides, it´s jazz and it´s just for all of you.

What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.

Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world.