Activity: “The Charm”.

1) Find the meanings to these phrases in the song “Brave” from Sara Bareilles.

a) Express your opinions frankly and openly

b) Hide or run away
c) Speak without stopping
d) To be afraid
e) Withdrawing into themselves
f) Violent reaction
g) Stop yourself from saying what you want to say
h) Allow words to have a meaning
i) To be observed in an intimidating way
j) Words have power
k) A person who is rejected or has no place in society
l) To be submissive
You can be amazing
Maybe there's a way out of 10) the cage
You can 1) turn a phrase into a weapon or a
where you live
drug
Maybe one of these days you can let the
You can be the 2) outcast
light in
Or be the 3)backlash of somebody's lack of
Show me how big your brave is
love
Or you can start 4) speaking up
Say what you wanna say
And let the words 11) fall out
Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
words do
With what you want to say
When they settle 'neath your skin
And let the words fall out
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you
And since your history of silence
Won't do you any good
Say what you wanna say
Did you think it would?
And let the words fall out
12) Let your words be anything but empty
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
Why don't you tell them the truth?
With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Say what you wanna say
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
And let the words fall out
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
With what you want to say
I just wanna see you
 And let the words fall out
I just wanna see you
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave
I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave
I wanna see you be brave
I just wanna see you
Everybody's been there
I just wanna see you
Everybody's 5) been stared down by the
I just wanna see you
enemy
See you be brave
6) Fallen for the fear
And 7) done some disappearing
I just wanna see you (yeah)
8) Bow down to the mighty
I just wanna see you (oh o)
Don't run, 9) stop holding your tongue
I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you

2) Finish these sentences.

a) When he is young, the storyteller is .-...................... of conversation with other men,
and of women.

b) He has to be a .......................- because his country was at war with another country

c) An old man gives him a ........................ because the storyteller helps him across a
road.

d) The storyteller fights ........................ because he has the charm.

e) He and his men take the bridge ........................ the help of the storyteller's charm.

f) The storyteller learns a lesson. You can be afraid and …………………

3) Match the beginnings

4) Put the sentences in the right order to make the story.

a- The leader of the soldiers falls to the ground.

b- The story-teller helps the old man to cross the road.
c- The soldiers take the bridge.
d- The old man gives the story-teller a small charm.
e- The story-teller takes the leader to a better place.
f- The story-teller goes to war.
g- The story-teller goes to town.
h- The soldiers follow the story-teller.
i- The story-teller puts the charm in his coat.
j- The story-teller loses the charm.

5) Find the following items in the story:

a- 2 sentences in the past simple tense.

b- 2 sentences in the present simple tense.
c- 1 sentence in the present continuous tense.
d- 1 sentence in the present perfect simple tense.
e- 2 sentences in the future tense (will).
f- 1 sentence in the future tense (be going to).
g- 2 imperative sentences.

6) Write an anecdote choosing one of these topics:

a- A lucky strike.
b- A moment when you had to be brave.