By Rupert Holmes

A) Vocabulary
Red tape
Red tape generally includes the flling out of unnecessary paperwork, obtaining of unnecessary
licenses, having multiple people or committees approve a decision, etc.
B) Discussion questions
1.Have you ever read a personal column?
2.Have you ever thought of writing a personal ad?
3.What information would you include?
C) Put the following sentences in order. Listen and check.
_______of a favorite song.
_______there was this letter I read:
_______So while she lay there sleeping
_______I was tired of my lady,
_______like a worn-out recording
_______I read the paper in bed
_______we'd been together too long,
_______and in the personal columns
D) Fill in the blanks with a word from the box. Listen and check.
"If you like Pia Coladas
And getting caught in the _________
If you're not__________yoga
If you have half a ___________
Personal Column (a newspaper column containing personal
messages, advertisements by charities, requests for
friendship, holiday companions, etc.)
Personal or personal ad (generally meant to generate
romance, friendship, or casual encounters, and usually include a basic
description of the person posting it, and their interests.)
Looked for - Brain Cape
Rain Escape - into
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the __________
Then I'm the love that you've _______________
Write to me and ___________."
E) Put the verbs in brackets in the right tense.
I _____________________ (not think) about my lady
I know that _______________ (sound) kind of mean
But me and my old lady
_______________________ (fall) into the same old dull routine
So I ________________(write) to the paper
_______________ (take) out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it ________________ (be not) half bad
"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And _________________ (get) caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I__________________ (modal of obligation) meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we _______________ (plan) our escape."
F) They fnally meet at the bar called OMalleys. How do you think the story will end?
Listen to the end and compare.
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."
That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape
G) Follow up
1.How to make pia colada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqNiIlfdpJc
2.Write your own add