Welcome to our virtual classroom! here we will look at helpful extra material. 

Today I bring you a video on a topic that has been generally popular among you - English rhythm. 

You are already familiar with the majority of ideas the speaker presents, but I believe the way he plays with the pink panther theme is incredible to further understand these ideas. 

So, here it is: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCsiF80TX0

What can we do with this? 

I invite you to use this video and the ideas it presents on "weak forms" (something we will see ourselves in the future) to analyse songs (or any type of media, but music is easier to find and share).

Basically, let's use this forum to share a video or link to a song where you think you can see the use of English rhythm clearl - songs that show how unstressed syllables are greatly compressed. 

Here is my contribution!

This live version of the Stone's "You can't always get what you want" is a great COUNTER example of this, in my opinion, if we look at how Mick sings the chorus from 2:05 to 2:20. Listen to the contrast when he sings You can't always get what you want -  the original lyrics -  and when he teases the women in front of him, changing up the words. He deliberately makes all of them longer, so to me it sounds like Spanish!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8

So, think of similar moments, as for example when we talked how the Spice Girls talked about conditions saying If you wanna, not if you want to.