Where is the Love



W h e r e i s t h e L o v e ?

by Black Eyed Peas

What's wrong with the world mama?

People living like aint got no mamas

I think the whole world’s addicted to the drama

Only attracted to the things that bring you trauma

Overseas yeah we tryin to stop terrorism

But we still got terrorists here livin

In the USA the big CIA the Bloodz and the Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And if you hatin you're bound to get irate

Yeah madness is what you demonstrate

And that's exactly how anger works and operates

You gotta have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind and meditate

Let your soul gravitate to the love y'all

People killing people dying

Children hurtin you hear them crying

Can you practice what you preach

Would you turn the other cheek?

Father Father Father help us

Send some guidance from above

Cause people got me got me questioning

Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the love2x)

It just ain't the same all ways have changed

New days are strange is the world the insane?

If love and peace so strong

Why are there pieces of love that don't belong

Nations dropping bombs

Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones

With ongoing suffering

As the youth die young

So ask yourself is the loving really strong?

So I can ask myself really what is going wrong

With this world that we living in

People keep on giving in

Makin wrong decisions

Only visions of them livin and

Not respecting each other

Deny thy brother

The wars' going on but the reasons' undercover

The truth is kept secret

Swept under the rug

If you never know truth

Then you never know love

Where's the love y'all?(I don't know)

Where's the truth y'all?(I don't know)

Where's the love y'all?

People killing people dying

Children hurtin you hear them crying

Can practice what you preach

Would you turn the other cheek?

Father father father help us

Send some guidance from above

Cause people got me got me questioning

Where is the love?(where is the lovex3)(the lovex2)

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder

As I'm getting older y'all people get colder

Most of us only care about money makin

Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction

Wrong information always shown by the media

Negative images is the main criteria

Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria

Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

Whatever happened to the values of humanity

Whatever happened to the fairness and equality

Instead of spreading love, we're spreading animosity

Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down

It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under

I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found

People killing people dying

Children hurtin you hear them crying

Can you practice what you preach

Would you turn the other cheek?

Father Father Father help us

Send some guidance from above

Cause people got me got me questioning

Where is the love?(fade)

Activities

1. Listen to the song and tick the problems of society it talks about.

• Drug addiction

• Terrorism

• Depression

• Racism

• Bullying

• Killing

• Nations dropping bombs

• Alcoholism

• Chemical gases

• Wars

• Poverty in the Third World

• Money making

• Stress

• Selfishness

• Wrong information shown by the media

• Violence in films

2- Now read the lyrics and write a headline for the paragraphs that come before and after the chorus.

1- ________________________________________________________________

2- ________________________________________________________________

3- ________________________________________________________________

3- Informal language.

How do you write the following words in standard English?

1- aint got (People living like aint got no mamas) _________________________________

2- tryin, hatin, makin, livin ____________________________________________

3- gotta (You gotta have love) ________________________________________________

4- cause (Cause people got me got me questioning)_______________________________

5- aint (It just ain't the same) ________________________________________________

6- y’all (Where's the love y'all?) ______________________________________________

7- wanna (Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema) ________________________

4- What do you think these expressions mean in your language?

1- to be wrong with something (What's wrong with the world mama?)

________________________________________________________

2- to be bound to (if you hatin you're bound to get irate)

________________________________________________________

3- to practice what you preach

________________________________________________________

4- to turn the other cheek

________________________________________________________

5- to sweep under the rug (The truth is kept secret Swept under the rug)

________________________________________________________

6- to feel under / to feel down (That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under

That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down)

________________________________________________________

7-That’s reason why

________________________________________________________

5- Suffixes. Find more words with these suffixes (write words you know too)

-ate -ism -ness -ion

to discriminate (verb) terrorism (noun) madness (noun) decision (noun)

to demonstrate (verb) self__________ vi__________

to op_____________ dir__________

to med ___________ inf__________

to grav___________

hate (noun)

irate (adj.)

-ia -ity

criteria (plural noun, Latin origin) humanity (noun)

bacteria (plural noun, Latin origin) equ______________

anim_____________

equ______________

Read the text with the students and talk about it.

Where Is the Love?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Black Eyed Peas single

"Where Is The Love?" is the first single from The Black Eyed Peas' third album, Elephunk. Released[1] in 2003, the single (which features an uncredited vocal from Justin Timberlake) peaked at #8 in the USA becoming The Black Eyed Peas' 1st Top 10 hit; the single also peaked at #1 in the UK. The single is most known as the breakthrough[2] single of The Black Eyed Peas. Prior to this single The Black Eyed Peas had been very unsuccessful[3] commercially, and were about to dissolve professionally; with the release of this single, The Black Eyed Peas were able to become international icons and to obtain their biggest worldwide hit.

Song information

In this anti-war pacifist anthem[4], The Black Eyed Peas lament on various worldwide problems. Many issues are discussed, which include but are not limited to terrorism, U.S. government hypocrisy, racism, war and greed[5]. Disturbed by these problems, The Peas call on assistance from Timberlake who pleads (presumably to God), "Father, Father, Father help us, send some guidance from above...'cause people got me got me questioning...Where is the love?". Some view this song as an anthem against the 2003 invasion of Iraq since it was released shortly[6] after the invasion began.

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Although "Shut Up" had originally been planned as the album's first single, there was consensus among The Peas and Fair that "Where Is The Love?" was a stronger first single, and "Shut Up" was delayed as the next single.

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[1] to realease = sortir al mercat, posar-se en venda

[2] breakthrough = èxit de vendes

[3] unsuccessful = sense èxit

[4] anthem = himne

[5] greed = avarícia

[6] shortly = just després

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