Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Where have all the .......... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .......... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .......... gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the ................... gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the ................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the ................... gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the .............. gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .............. gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .............. gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the .................... gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the .................... gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the .................... gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

FALSE FRIENDS

A few Spanish/English False Friends

library - n - librería

a place where you borrow books / a place where you buy books

to divert - v - divertir

to change the direction of something / to have a good time

sympathetic - adj - simpático

understanding / nice, friendly

argument - n - argumento

a verbal fight / the plot of a book, film or play

to prove - v - probar

to make certain that something is true / to try something new, to try some clothes on

topic - n - tópico

a subject/theme / cliché

eventually -adv - eventualmente

in the end/finally / possibly

informal - adj - informal

casual, not formal / irresponsible

crime - n - crimen

something illegal / a murder, serious crime

to realise - v - realizar

to be fully conscious of something / to carry something out

sensible - adj - sensible

to have good sense / sensitive

actually - adv - actualmente

in fact / nowadays

educated - adj - educado

a person who has received a good education / polite

conductor - n - conductor

a person who leads an orchestra / the driver of a vehicle

particular - adj - particular

special / private

content - adj - contento

satisfied / happy

success - n - suceso

someone/thing that turns out well / an event

parent - n - pariente

mother or father / family member

direction - n - dirección

move to something/where / address

Note: sometimes the two words do correspond more or less. 

The false friend concerns a different meaning of the same word.

Little Boxes

1. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. 2. And the people in the houses All go to the university, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. And there's doctors and there's lawyers And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.

3. And they all play on the golf-course, And drink their Martini dry, And they all have pretty children, And the children go to school. And the children go to summer camp And then to the university, And they all get put in boxes And they come out all the same. 4. And the boys go into business, And marry, and raise a family, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same. ticky-tacky:......? The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It refers to suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", and which "all look just the same." "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the shoddy material used in the construction of housing of that time.