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How to use phrasal verbs

Date: Nov 08 2010

Themes: Family, Music

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

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Music and rebellion often go together. Kids love to annoy their parents by blasting the songs they like. And parents always seem to find their kids’ music impossible to understand or appreciate, whether it’s Elvis with his hip-shaking rock-n-roll or Lady Gaga with her crazy meat dresses.

But sometimes you have to find music that both you and your parents can agree on, like when you’re stuck in a car together for a long road trip. Then it’s just a matter of figuring out which genres and artists are common ground for you and your parents. Find out what Dale and Mason listen to with their parents.

Dialog

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Mason

Dale

Mason: I was in the car with my mom the other day, and woman just loves the oldies. Like, she never got over the music…

Dale: Like the sixties? 1960s oldies?

Mason: More like…

Dale: 1940s?

Mason: You know, kind of fifties, sixties. But it wasn’t like the great stuff that was happening there, it was the mellow stuff. Kind of Neil Diamond-y, The Mamas and The Papas. I’m not a fan, but…So these are bands that, they’re not bad, but they just feel out of touch to me.

Dale: My parents have listened to certain songs, but they usually get turned off really quick. It makes them angry because they don’t know certain music. I can understand that some. I don’t listen to a lot of rap, but there’s some rap songs that they do like.

Mason: This is like when they come into your car and they’re like, “Turn that off!”

Dale: Yeah, just, “I can’t stand that.”

Mason: So let me put it this way. What is something that you can listen to and you and your parents are both happy?

Dale: It would be basically classical.

Mason: Yeah?

Dale: Just as a safety, because then I…it doesn’t make me mad. It calms me down. My parents don’t really have to argue about any music, they can…

Mason: So the same thing they play in the elevator is what you can hang out with your parents to.

Dale: That’s what we jiggy to.

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Discussion

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Mason recently rode in a car with his mom and he couldn’t stand the kind of music she put on the radio. His mom only likes mellow oldies from the 1950s and 1960s.

Dale has an even harder time finding common ground with his parents when it comes to music. The only kind of music he and his parents can agree on is classical. When songs come on the radio that Dale’s parents don’t like or understand, they get annoyed and turn the music off.

What kind of music can you listen to with your parents? Do your parents get annoyed when you play the music you like?

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Marcelolic

Brazil

Oh yeah really 'cause I have a taste of music too incommon to them hehe

For instance,I love to listen to music in my car…I'm moved by music,always! So in my car I listen always what I feel like…So I really like to listen to eletronic music,kind drum'n'bass,rock,heavy metal,80's,70's or even some 60's…So the only moment that me and my parents agree with some music is when I connect my radio in a station that its programming is based in international 60's,70's and 80's…

Golden Lena

Russian Federation

We can listen to oldies music, radio! I see my parents so rarely that is why I dont mind to listen it.

largado

Brazil

my grandma listen gospel songs, and my mom, oldies, but i like to listen the oldies too, really, im versatile about music, i listen since linkin park to tears for fears, and i loved it.

elen swift

Turkey

noo they dont get annoyed at all it isnt a problem between us hmm they like the music i like :)

amany7

Saudi Arabia

my mom likes only religious songs, she complains sometimes, and my father is ok. with any type oldies in first and I don't mind about anything if the sound was't annoying :P

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

cant leetin with my parnets they dont like what i like

rebel lee

China

I love pop music and some of the foreign songs. My parents love old songs. Actually, sometimes I find that the old songs are also good. I can listen those songs with my parents. They don't understand the pop songs, but they don't care what kind of songs I like, and they don't get annoyed.

Romio79

Russian Federation

Fortunetly I don't have such problem with my parents. If we go on a road trip with my dad we listen to some rock, even some oldies. That is common ground for us.

lolekesh

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

sometimes for peace the classic music is good but not always.

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

andergosa

there is also types of classical music

its like song that has types

andregosa

Costa Rica

mmm the classic is really the best kind of music

because all kinds of people can deal with that and not fight

but for my parents they love music of eighties

ancsy

Hungary

Well, there is a radio,they play music from the 1980s and 1990s. That's enjoyable for me and for my parents too.

And certainly my parents love when I play the piano…:)

masiran

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

my mom doesn't mind if i listen to music that i like although she is not a fan of new pop persian songs but when she sees us are happy with it and singing she likes it and never gets annoyed she never listens alone my sister and i are so much intersted in pop music we never listen to load music at home unless it's a party or.. we were invited to our cousin's wedding party 1 month ago in a big garden i was getting deaf ….lol but it was amazing

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

my parnets like music that old and the music that they lesining to it when they

young

they dont like what i like

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

Sometimes i do listen to the sounds of music high Very very high i have a voice device and amplifiers with a high quality and thats loud voice annoyed My parents and then say folks turns off and i dont and then my father say he will go out the home my mother once told me that thiere freinds asked her whats that in your home i also lestining to music and by putting headset on. i wish if i can lestining to music with very high voice in peace with out annoyed anyone

koxa

Ukraine

There is always a problem when I want to listen some of my favourite music because I like listening loud music and it's not appropriate for the people who surround me))..it's family, neighbours and people who just walk through my living area)....but sometimes I try to reduce this noise by putting headset on.

green_lea

Viet Nam

I like pop, balad and country songs, esp. sth that lyrical and inspirational, these days, i've gotten into classical music, cuz they're so relaxing and romantic. My bro's crazy for k-pop, mom only love oldies and some of folk; my sis just listen to childen songs while dad's not interested in them all. So whenever we wanted get on each other's nerve, we played our own favourite songs as loud as possible. It seemed to make the situation worse, but i found it really funny . However, mom has never griped about my music cuz i just listen alone, not to bother any other.