Easy English 100 – Grammar is Music

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I think grammar is beautiful.
I think grammar is beautiful.
I think it’s beautiful.
Grammar is music.

Music.
Words are music.
Music.
Everything has music.

I was watching television.
I saw a programme
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
a musician
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
He was a musician.
He was a musician.
a musician.
He was a musician.

He was a musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

He travelled around.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

I saw a programme about a guy; a Finnish guy, who was a musician and composer and he traveled around and recorded sounds.

He traveled around and recorded sounds.

I was watching TV and I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded sounds in factories on farms.

What were you saying?
As I was saying…
As I was saying….

What were you saying?
As I was saying…

What were you saying?
What were you saying?
What was he saying?
What was she saying?
What was he saying?

As I was saying…

I was watching TV and I was watching a programme about a Finnish guy and he was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded music in factories and workplaces and he mixed it on a computer and he combined it in new ways and he played the piano accordion and he mixed his live piano accordion music with computerised recordings of the factories and workplaces; the sewing machines, the presses, the wells, the pumps, the crushers, the kneaders, the boilers, the mills, all the machines, all the sounds of the workplace.

He played in rhythm with different mixtures of these sounds on the back of a truck in the desert.

Music is everywhere.
Music is everywhere.
Music is sound.
Music is song.
Music is language.
Music is language.

It’s language
That’s what it is.
It’s language
Music is language.

When you speak, think that you are singing!
Think that you are singing, because you are.

You are singing every time you open your mouth.

every time you open your mouth

You are singing.
You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

on the train
in the street

You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

in the street and on the train
every time
every time
every time
in the street
on the train
every time
int he street
on the train
on the bus
in the supermarket
at home
every time

Sound is song.
Sound is music.
music
muse
muse
museum

Now I am going to tell you the story of the nine muses.

Long ago in ancient Greece there were nine sisters.

The Gods of Mt Olympus put them in charge of nine faculties.

One was in charge of epic poetry.
One was in charge of lyric poetry.
One was in charge of drama.
One was in charge of history.
One was in charge of dance.

one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of…

each
each of them
each of them
They were each in charge of different faculties.

in charge of
in charge of

The nine muses are in charge of nine different human faculties, according to the ancient Greeks.

It is from them that we have the word “music”.

Use the internet to find out the names of the nine muses. Write and tell us about the nine muses. Do not copy. Read and take notes and then write your own original text about the nine muses.