Tag: pronunciation

past continuous: RAIN (jazz chant)

RAIN

 

It ….. raining, raining, raining hard.
It …… falling on my head.
It … falling on the stars.
It … falling on my shoes.
I got soaking wet
I got soaking wet.
But I stayed outside.
I stayed outside.
The rain …… sweet.
The rain …. warm.
The rain …. soft
It reminded me of home
It … raining, raining, raining hard.
It … falling, falling, falling on the stars
It … raining, raining, raining hard.
It … falling, falling, falling on the stars.
Soft rain
Raining, raining
Sweet rain
Raining, raining
Warm rain
Raining, raining
Sweet soft Raining, raining
Warm rain Raining, raining
Sweet soft Raining, raining
Warm rain Raining, raining

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What Shakespeare Plays Originally Sounded Like

In this ten-minute video from The Open University, we learn about the Globe Theater’s experiments with “Original Pronunciation” (OP), which is exactly what it sounds like–English as it was pronounced at the time Shakespeare’s plays were written and first performed.

http://mentalfloss.com/what-shakespeare-plays-originally-sounded