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  • Hi, Bob the Canadian here.

  • Whenever you can use music to learn English, whenever you can learn English through music,

  • it's just a great idea, and a couple of weeks ago, Jen and I saw a movie called Yesterday.

  • It's a movie that features a lot of music by the band, The Beatles.

  • The Beatles are from before my time, but they are one of the greatest bands in history,

  • if not the greatest band in history.

  • And while I was watching the movie, I thought, "I should do an English lesson for you guys

  • to help you learn English through the music of The Beatles."

  • So, in this video, what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about 10 Beatles songs,

  • and I will put the links to the YouTube videos of each song in the description below as well

  • as a link to the lyrics, and here's what I think you should do.

  • You should listen to all those songs a lot.

  • You should listen to them a lot over the next couple of weeks or next couple of months so

  • that you can learn English through the music of The Beatles, and then, once you know the

  • songs really, really well, once you've studied the English lyrics, you should go watch the

  • movie, Yesterday.

  • So, this is kind of a long English lesson.

  • It starts with you watching this video, and then, in the description below, there's 10

  • links to 10 different Beatles songs and 10 links to the lyrics, to the words, the English

  • words for those songs.

  • I think you should watch this video.

  • Then, I think you should listen to those Beatles songs a lot, and then, go see the movie, Yesterday.

  • But let's first talk about each of the 10 songs that I have chosen.

  • So, the first Beatles song I think you should listen to is Yesterday.

  • It has the same title as the film that I think you should go see, and there's two phrases

  • in this song that I think are really good for you to learn.

  • The first is, "I said something wrong."

  • So, this phrase actually has two meanings.

  • When you speak English, and you make a mistake, you could say that you have said something

  • wrong.

  • So, that is the literal meaning, but we also can say something wrong to someone in the

  • sense that we say something that makes them feel bad.

  • Sometimes, I say something wrong to my wife, and then, it makes her feel bad.

  • The second phrase in the song, Yesterday, that's a really cool English phrase to learn

  • is the phrase, "To long for."

  • When you long for someone, it means that you really, really miss them, and you really,

  • really want to be with them.

  • So, first song you should listen to, Yesterday.

  • The second song you should listen to is Let It Be.

  • This is another great song, and what's neat about this song is it has the phrase, "Let

  • it be."

  • This is a great phrase to learn.

  • In English, when you say, "Let it be," it means just relax a bit.

  • Don't worry about the thing you're worrying about.

  • Just let it go.

  • The second thing about this song that's kind of cool is it has a lot of words that start

  • with the letter W. It has whisper.

  • It has wisdom.

  • It has word, word itself.

  • So, if you need to learn and practice your pronunciation of words that start with W,

  • this is a great song to sing along to.

  • The next song that is great for learning a bit of English is the song, When I'm 64.

  • This is a great song.

  • It has the line, "Who could ask for more?"

  • This is a great English phrase that you can say when life is really, really good.

  • When you have a happy life, why would you ask for anything more?

  • So, the phrase, "Who could ask for more," is just awesome.

  • The other thing about this song is it's a great song to learn a few sentences that talk

  • about the future.

  • The song, for the most part, is about the future.

  • So, When I'm 64, another great song.

  • Another great Beatles song to learn English from is Eleanor Rigby, and what's cool about

  • this song is it's really three little stories.

  • It's three little word paintings about different people's lives, and it's just a great little

  • song to kind of use English words to imagine different scenes in a story in your mind.

  • The next song is a bit of a love song.

  • So, our fifth one is I Want to Hold Your Hand.

  • This is a great song because, first of all, it's a love song.

  • It's about a boy who wants to hold a girl's hand, but what's really cool about it is it's

  • really someone expressing themselves in the first person, something that you'll want to

  • be able to do while you speak English.

  • So, I Want to Hold Your Hand, the story of someone who's in love with someone and to

  • show that love, they want to hold their hand.

  • So, great song, it's written in the first person.

  • So, you can learn how to mimic and use the phrases and sentence and sentence structure

  • yourself.

  • The sixth Beatles song, it's a hard word to say, isn't it?

  • The sixth Beatles song that we're going to look at is Here Comes the Sun.

  • Here Comes the Sun has two really cool English phrases in it.

  • It has, "It's all right."

  • This is a phrase that we say to reassure someone.

  • To calm someone down, we say, "It's all right."

  • It also has the phrase, "It seems like years."

  • This is kind of a neat expression of time.

  • So, when something happened just a few days ago, you could say to someone, "It seems like

  • weeks ago, or it seems like years."

  • So, Here Comes the Sun, that's number six.

  • Let's look at number seven.

  • Number seven is In My Life.

  • In My Life is a great song because it's about reminiscing.

  • Reminiscing is when you sit, and you talk about the past with someone.

  • So, the song, In My Life, is great because it's an example of someone reminiscing about

  • things that have happened.

  • It's a song about someone thinking about things that have happened in the past.

  • It also has a great phrase towards the end where it says, "To stop and think."

  • So, in English, sometimes, you have to stop and think.

  • Sometimes, if you think while you're doing something, it's not a great way to think deeply,

  • but if you stop and think, you can think more deeply.

  • You can think more carefully about something.

  • So, that was our seventh song, In My Life.

  • Let's look at our eighth.

  • Our eighth song is one of the classic Beatles songs, and it's Hey Jude.

  • This is just an amazing song.

  • What I like about this song is that it has the phrase, "To carry the world on your shoulders."

  • When you carry the world on your shoulders, it means you worry about a lot of things in

  • life, more than just your own needs.

  • You think about the needs of the world, and then, it also has the phrase, "Make it better."

  • When you make something better, you kind of fix it.

  • You kind of solve the problem that is happening.

  • So, just a great song all around.

  • I think it might be my favorite Beatles song, Hey Jude.

  • So, the ninth Beatles song that you can use to learn English through music is All You

  • Need is Love, and this song is great for a couple of reasons.

  • One is the message is so simple, right?

  • It's so easy.

  • It's a great phrase.

  • It's so easy, All You Need is Love.

  • In order for the world to truly have peace, all we really need is love.

  • And then, I like it because they flip the phrase a bit at the end, and they say, "Love

  • is all you need."

  • So, the ninth song from The Beatles, All You Need is Love.

  • You should go listen to this one a lot.

  • The last song, the 10th song that I think you should listen to is Help.

  • This song has the phrase, "self-assured," which is a great phrase to learn.

  • When someone is self-assured, they are very, very confident, but it also has the word,

  • "insecure," which is the opposite.

  • When you are insecure, you are not confident.

  • So, our 10th song from The Beatles is Help.

  • Well, hey, thanks so much for watching this video where I give you some suggestions on

  • how to learn English through music.

  • Please do go to the description below and find the links to the 10 Beatles songs that

  • we talked about.

  • Listen to them a lot and go see the movie, Yesterday.

  • I think you'll really, really enjoy it.

  • Bob the Canadian here, you're learning English with Bob the Canadian.

  • I hope you have a great day.

Hi, Bob the Canadian here.

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