12/29/2023 0 Comments Encanto sing along with lyrics![]() ![]() It looks like rain, there are clouds and the wind is starting to blow. But it can also be used to say that you think something is going to happen in the future because there are signs. It can mean resembles, that is looks the same as. Pepa is not happy with Felix’s interruptions and asks: It’s the deep booming sounds you hear when electrical storms discharge their bolts of lightning. Thunder is the sound of a storm made by lightning. Pepa sings Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin- and Felix adds: Thunder! ! I am a bit uncomfortable telling you that the way native speakers often say the word is wrong, but according to the Cambridge dictionary, it should be mis chi vous and that pronunciation fits the rhythm of the song much better. Often, native speakers mispronounce the word mischievous and say mis chee vee yous, but that’s not how it should be pronounced. It’s a smile that you can’t help, not a smile for the camera, but a smile that expresses happiness or because you think something is funny. ![]() If you are mischievous then you like doing naughty things that you find funny. If you do something naughty because you think it’s funny, it could be described as mischief. Mischief means trouble or bad behavior, but it usually implies that the cause of the trouble was something funny. Mischievous is the adjective form of the noun mischief. You sometimes see this form on signs saying no dogs allowed.Ī mischievous grin. Felix is saying that clouds were not allowed in the sky, this is a passive form, but he’s using a reduced form and just sang: no clouds allowed. If you allow something to happen, it’s like you say it’s OK. This isn’t a common way and it is actually not complete, grammatically. Felix repeats the idea but says no clouds allowed in the sky. It’s common to hear ‘there wasn’t a cloud in the sky’. This is a cliched way to say that there was a blue sky. We were getting ready, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky It’s the day of the wedding ceremony in a church or temple or mosque or at home. Someone’s wedding day is the day they get married. In the song, Pepa is leading this verse and Felix is backing her up which is why the ideas are sort of repeated. Although they say they don’t talk about Bruno, they then go on to talk a lot about him. Bruno is Pepa’s brother, but he has been rejected by the family because of his magic power. The song starts with the character Pepa and her husband Felix telling Mirabel, their niece, not to talk about Bruno. There is a lot of interesting language in this song and I hope to explain all the more advanced phrases, but I think on balance, this podcast will be suitable for B1 learners, perhaps B2. Bruno is a wizard or sorcerer with the gift of prophecy, not a prophet. It’s similar to a religious prophecy, except we don’t use the word prophet in a magical context. ![]() When people are talking about magical powers, the gift of prophecy is the ability to predict the future or see what is going to happen before it occurs. A prophecy is information about the future. Bruno has the power of prophecy and the word prophecy comes up in the song so I‘d like to explain that first. The members of the family have different magical powers. The song I am going to discuss is from the film Encanto which is an animated film from Disney about a magical family from Colombia. They have asked me to print out the lyrics so they can sing along and so I hear this song, either the original, or my kids’ cover version several times a day. I have two kids and they both really love this song. Today I’m making a podcast about a song that is very popular in my house at the moment. There’s a page for this podcast with the transcript, an activity and a task for you to do in the comments section. You can find a transcript of this podcast on .uk. My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary. ![]()
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