hello my name is John yerington I'm with
Buffalo Public Schools adult education
division welcome to English class I like
to teach grammar and I like to sing so
one way that I found to combine these
two is by taking basically any song but
a song that I've been thinking about
lately is this land is your land this
land is my land from California to the
New York island and so forth and so on
you can look the song up on the internet
you can look up the exact lyrics but I
think it's a cool idea to combine
grammar tenses with these songs you can
change the grammar of these songs with a
little bit of artistic license here like
this this lands been your land this land
been my land from California to the New
York island and so forth and so on the
second verse goes something like this as
I was walking down the something highway
I saw my friends there they didn't shy
away or something like that I have to
apologize to what he go through the
original writer of the song but you can
change that to something like this as
I've been walking down the lonely
highway I've seen my friends there who
haven't shied away Dada Dada Dada and so
forth and so on you can take any verse
of any song I think it's really good to
manipulate grammar tenses as I've done
present perfect or present perfect
continuous changing the original though
and again I apologize for that and I
think it's useful and fun part of
because it gets with it gets to
vocabulary it gets to verb tenses and it
Emmett ibly discusses culture this
particular song was written in response
to Kate Smith's god bless america
and you can look up all the information
about why it's considered to be an
alternative song to that but i like it
it's useful thank you for attention