LYRICS! Listen and watch the video, fill the gap~
Inequality
The relics of feudalism
Revolution in France
Oh, the Three Estates ensured
nobles favouritism
Revolution in __.
La la Liberté
E E galite
Fra Fra ternite
A revolution
La la Liberté
E E galite
Fra Fra ternite
A revolution
Don’t want no __
I’m paying too much
Let them eat cake
We had a banquet for lunch
I need my bread.
Bread bread bread off with her __.
It went from 8 sous to 12 in a year
Exactly what impoverished peasants
had feared
The royals jeered.
Ha ha ha there’s more for us.
(Ha ha ha there’s more for us)
There was a famine
The peasants wouldn’t pay
Bad malnutrition and tooth decay.
It went from famine to __’s war
You and me, let’s start a revolution
We will not take this __ anymore
You and me, let’s start a revolution
On a __ court we swore
to a constitution
Revolution in France
On July 14 we __ the Bastille;
we showed them
Revolution in France
La la Liberté
E E galite
Fra Fra ternite
French Revolution
The month of August 1789
No feudalism, __ of Rights
August Decrees
Swept away the two estates
Women of Paris march down to Versailles
Carrying weapons
The French king they defied
You’ll give us bread.
Bread bread or we’ll stab you dead.
(Bread bread or we’ll stab you dead)
A new constitution
With limited monarchy
It was a bad
time for France
We took on Austria, a war in the spring
Europe frightened by our revolution
We will not take it Louis 16 must die
Tension heightened by our revolution
Radical political mobs unite to start a
Revolution in France
Breech-less san-culottes of the
Paris Commune __
Revolution in France
La la Liberté
E E galite
Fra Fra ternite
French Revolution
La la Liberté
E E galite
Fra Fra ternite
French Revolution
Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Take heads of kings and ladies
Europe armed for the invading
Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Robespierre, Reign of Terror
Did it for the Public __.
I want your __
or I’ll get my revenge
I take you out till your rebellion ends.
Don’t want no church
Catholicism’s dead
No room for God
Worship reason instead
Good ol Notre Dame became a
“temple of reason”
Revolution in France
A new __ with months named
for times and seasons
Revolution in France
A revolution!
The Terror ended and with
Robespierre gone
Was this the ending of the revolution?
Five members of a new Directory ruled
Could it be a __ solution?
Directory and legislature filled
with __
Revolution in France
Monarchists and war would cause even
more __
Revolution in France
Ooh, oo, oo la la
Coup, coup, coup d’état
Ooh, oo, oo la la
Napoleon’s here
WORDS: Please match the meaning of the words.
- Impoverish 2. jeer 3. famine 4. decay 5. defy 6. frighten
- tension 8. invade 9. revenge 10. rebellion 11. worship
A. to make someone very poor; to make something worse in quality
B. a situation in which a large number of people have little or no food for a long time and many people die
C. to enter a country, town, or area using military force, in order to take control of it
D. to show respect and love for a god, especially by praying in a religious building
E. to laugh at someone or shout unkind things at them in a way that shows you do not respect them
F.something you do in order to punish someone who has harmed or offended you
G.to be slowly destroyed by a natural chemical process, or to make something do this
H. to make someone feel afraid
I. the feeling that exists when people or countries do not trust each other and may suddenly attack each other or start arguing
J. an organised attempt to change the government or leader of a country, using violence
K. to refuse to obey a law or rule, or refuse to do what someone in authority tells you to do
OPTIONAL HOMEWORK: Please choose one of these three homework.
Make sentences of these 11 words. Learn how to sing this French Revolution song (remade from the Bad Romance by Lady Gaga). Use these lyrics to fit in another pop song you would like to do.
ANSWER KEY!
France, taxes, head, Napoleon, poverty, tennis, stormed, declaration, demanded, Safety, loyalty, calendar, permanent, corruption, destruction A E B G K H I C F J D
