These are the lyrics of a song we did in class with grade c at highschool while trying to revise the past simple (and the past participle) of verbs, together with the video of the song. I think, for some strange reason, boys enjoyed it more than girls.
Alexander The Great
Artist(Band): Iron Maiden
"My son ask
for thyself another
Kingdom, for that
which I leave
is too small for
thee"
(King Philip of
Macedonia - 339 B.C.)
Near to the east
In a part of
ancient Greece
In an ancient land
called Macedonia
Was born a son
To Philip of
Macedon
The legend his name
was Alexander
At the age of
nineteen
He became the
Macedon King
And he swore to
free all of Asia Minor
By the Aegean Sea
In 334 B.C.
He utterly beat the
armies of Persia
Alexander the Great
His name struck
fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a legend
amongst mortal men
King Darius the
third
Defeated fled
Persia
The Scythians fell
by the river Jaxartes
Then Egypt fell to
the Macedon King as well
And he founded the
city called Alexandria
By the Tigris river
He met King Darius
again
And crushed him
again in the battle of Arbela
Entering Babylon
And Susa, treasures
he found
Took Persepolis the
capital of Persia
Alexander the Great
His name struck
fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
Became a God
amongst mortal men
A Phrygian King had
bound a chariot yoke
And Alexander cut
the Gordian knot
And legend said
that who untied the knot
He would become the
master of Asia
Hellenism he spread
far and wide
The Macedonian
learned mind
Their culture was a
Western way of life
He paved the way
for Christianity
Marching on,
marching on
The battle weary
marching side by side
Alexander's army
line by line
They wouldn't
follow him to India
Tired of the
combat, pain and the glory
Alexander the Great
His name struck
fear into hearts of men
Alexander the Great
He died of fever in
Babylon
TASK:
Find all the verbs in the past simple and then write the three columns of the
verb.
