Common People by Doyle et al. / Pulp lyrics

COMMON PEOPLE

Pulp

Find the song on YouTube. Watch and listen while you follow the text. Do this at least twice.

I took her to a supermarket, I don’t know why, But I had to start it somewhere, So it started there. I said pretend you’ve got no money, She just laughed and said, “Oh you’re so funny.” I said “Yeah? Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here.” [...] Rent a flat above a shop, Cut your hair and get a job. Smoke some fags and play some pool, Pretend you never went to school. ACTION [...] You will never understand 7 Listen to the entire song a couple of times and How it feels to live your life find the rest of the lyrics online. Describe the With no meaning or control two people in the song. Make a double bubble to And with nowhere left to go. compare them. [...] 8 What do you know about class differences in the You’ll never live like common people UK? Do an internet search for images of British You’ll never do whatever common people do aristocracy, upper class, middle class, working You’ll never fail like common people class and poor. Try to find examples of houses, You’ll never watch your life slide out of view people, education and everyday life. Prepare a presentation of the images. 9 Which classes are described in the song? Find examples in the lyrics. common vanlig/vanleg rent leie/leige smoke some fags røyke 10 In groups, present your images and then compare sigaretter / røyke sigarettar and discuss your answers to the previous tasks. play some pool spille biljard 11 Are the British more divided by class than / spele biljard Norwegians? Explain. Find examples to support fail mislykkes/mislykkast your claims. slide skli

Vurderingseksemplar

ACTION

In pairs: 12 What do you know about English football and tennis? Do an internet search of the Premier

League and Wimbledon tennis. Make a mind map of what you find. 13 Do some research on one English football team and make a key word poster of the team. Include topics like club culture, stadium, surroundings, events, accidents and hooligans.

14 Study the images, especially the audiences. a Discuss why you think tennis is known as a formal sport and football an informal one?Vurderingseksemplar b Discuss whether class and sport can be related. 15 Which other sports could be considered more formal or “posh”, and which ones could be called more informal and “working class”? Make a list of sports. 16 In groups, choose one of the sports to present in class. Demonstrate the rules of the sport and explain to the class whether you would consider this to be a posh sport or a working-class sport.