Nancy Mutucan
by Easheeran
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worry about the numbers):
Ask (1):
Be (123):
Borrow (D8)
‘Buy (2x
Find (1x)
Propose (14)
Say (1:
See(ax)
sit (2:
Worry (29
2) Usten tothe song and complete it with the verbs
above, as many times as the numbers into parentheses.
1 twenty-four years old
when ‘the woman t would call my own
Twenty-two grandkids now growing old
Jn the house that your brother ya
(irish music)
On the summer day when |
t ‘that wedding ring from dentist gold
And her father, but her daddy
You can’t marry my daughter
She and on the run.
Don't care about religion.
|gonna marry the woman love.
Down by the Wexford border.
2) Write the simple past forms of the verbs bellow {don't
wet ther at Guys in the Second World War
she working on a soldier's ward.
Neverhad I seen such beauty before
The moment that | her.
Nancy. my yellow rose,
nd we married wearing clothes
We ight children now growing old
Five sons and three daughters.
she and ‘on th
Don't care about religion,
Ym gonna marry the woman {love
Down by the Wexford border.
she Nancy Mulligan and 1
‘William Sheeran,
She my name and then we one
Down by the Wesford border.
(irish music)
From her snow white steak in her fet black hair
Over sixty years ve been loving her
Nowweare___bythefire in our old armehsirs
You know Nancy, ladore you.
From a farm boy born near Belfast town.
I never about the King and Gown.
Cause im heart upon the southern
round
Thore’s no ifference, | aseure you.
she andi. on the run,
Don’t care about religion.
"Ym gonna marry the woman | love
Down by the Wesford border.
sh Nancy Mulligan and 1
Willian Sheeran,
she. my name and then we one
Down by the Wexford border.
(Fantastic ish
rmwsic)3) Ansiner the questions:
2) How old was Willian Sheeran when he met Nancy?
2 24 32 34 92 _ 4a
'b) How many children did they have?
) How many grandchildren did they have?
1) Where cd they meet each other?
€) The songs sang inthe fist person, by
Nancy William _Theirgrandson Ed Sheeran
fi Correct the sentences:
They warked hard to buy their house.
Nancy’ father was hanpy with their wedding.
Nancy had yellow hair.
They had eight sons.
ian was born ina big city.
ilies loves the royal family
4) Open discussion questions:
2) What do you think about Willian and Nancy's love
story? (Why?)
1) Did you lke Ed's homage to his grandparents? (Why?)
) Would you ike to see this story into-a movie? (Why?)
Song Facts,
"Tis song is about Ed Sheeran's Irish
grandparents, Anne and William Sheeran,
(Naney isa diminutive of Anne, and Bill is
short for Wiliam.) I tlls the story of how
they fell in Love ane married, despite their
Catholi- Protestant divide,
**One was Protestant and from Belfast and
‘ane was Catholic from southern Ireland.
‘They got engaged and no one turned up to
‘the wedding, He melted all his gold teeth in
his dental surgery and melted them down
ito a wedding ring. They wore borrowed
clothes to get married and had this sort of
Romeo and Juliet romance whichis ike the
most romantic thing. thought 'd waite a
song about it and make ita jig" ~ Sheeran
‘explained to Zane Lowe on his Beats 1
show.
Pictionary
Wedding rings
=
Avil Lavigne has
pink streak in hor
{et biond hair
‘Weaford (isa city in Ireland)
Belfast (i's a cityin
‘North ireland)
This Flowers
rowing
Guys: a hospitals name, in London
Ward: ke a hospital
Never had I seen: I nev
ve been loving: "love
sav before in my life.”