The Weekend - I Love That Song!(0127)

Host:

Welcome back, music lovers, to "I Love That Song"! The game show where we test your musical knowledge to the extreme! Let's get started! Team A... Guess this tune:

Team A:

Carrying Your Love With Me by George Straight! The genre is country music!

Host:

You are right! one hundred points to team A! Now, for our next cut.

Team B:

Thong Song by Sisqo! I believe the genre is R&B?

Host:

One hundred big points for team B! For all our viewers the acronym R&B stands for Rhythm and Blues. On that note, DJ, play our next song!

Team B:

Superstar by The Carpenters!

Host:

And the genre?

Team B:

Um... Um... Adult Contemporary?

Host:

That's right! A hundred points! Uh oh! That sound means it's double or nothing! The songs are more difficult and the points are doubled! Let's hear our next song!

Team A:

Too easy! That song is Kinslayer by the Finnish power metal group, Nightwish!

Host:

You are correct! Very impressive team A! And it seems we have a tie! It's time now for the tie-breaker round! Each team will be played three songs and they must tell us the genre of each song in less than five seconds! Team A, are you ready?

Team A:

Ready!

Host:

Let's hear it!

Team A:

Hip Hop, Classical and Gothic metal!

Host:

You are right! Team B, the pressure is on, if you get all of them right, we will move on to sudden death. If you miss one, you lose! DJ, Let's hear it!

Team B:

Rap, Disco and... and...

Key Vocabulary

genre

common noun, singular

a kind of literary or artistic work

acronym

common noun, singular

abbreviations

sudden death

common noun, singular

extra ime to determine a winner after a tie

the pressure is on

phrase

the outcome or result depends on you

double or nothing

phrase

used when you want to bet twice as much

Supplementary Vocabulary

air guitar

common noun, singular

when a person pretends to play the guitar when listening to music

a capella

Adjective

to sing without any instruments or music

encore

common noun, singular

a demand by an audience for an additional performance at the end of a concert

chorus

common noun, singular

a part of a song repeated after each verse

hit

common noun, singular

a person or thing that gains wide appeal or fame