BABY LOVE - THE SUPREMES

1.- Historia

El trío de chicas The Supremes estaba conformado por Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson y Diana Ross. Tuvo una docena de números 1 en el ranking Billboard de USA y alrededor de 50 singles editados.
Florence Ballard falleció el 26 de febrero de 1976 a causa de un ataque al corazón. Mary Wilson falleció el 08-02-2021 a la edad de 76 años. Diana Ross se hizo solista en 1970.

Fuente : https://the-music-history.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-supremes-top-5.html


2.- Lyrics

Baby love, my baby love

I need you

Oh, how I need you

But all you do is treat me bad

Break my heart and leave me sad

Tell me what did I do wrong

To make you stay away so long

'Cause baby love

My baby love

Been missing ya

Miss kissing ya

Instead of breaking up

Let's do some kissing

and making up

Don't throw our love away

In my arms

Why don't you stay?

Need ya, need ya

Baby love, baby love

Baby love, my baby love

Why must we separate my love?

All of my whole life through

I never loved no one but you

Why you do me like you do

I get this need

Need to hold you once again

My love

Feel your warm embrace

My love

Don't throw our love away

Please don't do me this way

Not happy like I used to be

Loneliness has got the best of me

My love

My baby love

I need ya

Oh, how I need ya

Why you do me like you do

After I've been true to you

So deep in love with you

Baby, baby

'Til it's hurting me

'Til it's hurting me

Ooh, baby love

Don't throw our love away

Don't throw our love away

3.- Vocabulary

- Treat = Tratar

- Wrong = Mal, equivocado/a(s)

- 'Cause = Because = Porque

- Miss = Extrañar, echar de menos, perder.

- Instead = En vez de, en lugar de.

- Ya = You = Tú, ti

- Whole = Todo/a

- Guess = Creer, pensar

- Hold = Tener de la mano

- Embrace = Abrazo

- Loneliness = Soledad

- 'Til = Until = Hasta

- Hurt = Herir

4.- Grammar

A.- Presente Simple

Ejemplos:

- I need you.

- All you do is treat me bad.

En algunas hace falta el sujeto.

- (You) Break my heart.

- (I) Miss kissing ya.

B.- Presente Perfecto

Ejemplos:

- (I Have) Been missing ya.

- I've been true to you.

- Loneliness has got the best of me.

C.- How (exclamativo)

- How I need ya = ¡Cómo/Cuánto te necesito!

D.- Phrasal Verbs

- Stay Away = Mantenerse alejado/a, alejarse.

- Throw away = Desaprovechar, desechar.

E.- Used to

Se utiliza para describir hábitos del pasado que ya no se dan en la actualidad.

- Not happy like I used to be.

5.- Videoclip

VALENTINE'S DAY - READING (B1 - B2 - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL)

 

Extractos de Valentine's Day de la Enciclopedia Británica. 

1.- Origin 

Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day, has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I replaced Lupercalia with St. Valentine’s Day. It came to be celebrated as a day of romance from about the 14th century. 

2.- Valentine 

Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine, the day may have taken its name from a priest who was martyred about 270 CE by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. Other accounts hold that it was St. Valentine of Terni, a bishop, for whom the holiday was named, though it is possible the two saints were actually one person. Another common legend states that St. Valentine defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war. It is for this reason that his feast day is associated with love. 

3.- Valentine Cards

Formal messages, or valentines, appeared in the 1500s, and by the late 1700s commercially printed cards were being used. Valentines commonly depict Cupid, the Roman god of love. Traditional gifts include candy and flowers, particularly red roses, a symbol of beauty and love.

4.- Celebration

The day is popular in the United States as well as in Britain, Canada, and Australia, and it is also celebrated in other countries, including Argentina, France, Mexico, and South Korea. In the Philippines, it is the most common wedding anniversary. The holiday has expanded to expressions of affection among relatives and friends.

5.- Vocabulario

- Held = Hold = Celebrar, sostener

- Pair off = Emparejar

- Martyr = Mártir

- Priest = Sacerdote, cura

- Bishop = Obispo

- State = Manifestar, declarar

- Defy = Desafiar

- Spare = Ahorrar

- Feast = Fiesta

. Depict = Representar

- Wedding = Boda