Alan Smith Robertson – Are you coming out?

To practise: Interrogative, LGBT issues, Questions
Band/singer:

This song comes with a worksheet to use in the classroomPractise the interrogative in the ESL classroom with this uplifting, feel-good LGBT anthem, Are you coming out? by Alan Smith Robertson.

The lyrics of this song include 10 examples of the interrogative and it also allows teachers to address LGBT issues as a transversal topic:

  • are you coming out?
  • are you feeling proud?
  • do you know yourself?
  • can you unlock your cell?
  • is it ’cause you’re shy?
  • don’t you feel that love you hide?
  • are you coming out with me tonight?
  • do you want to spread your wings and fly?
  • can you break your chains and free your mind?
  • will you love me ’till the day I die?

This song comes with a PDF worksheet and is also available on Spotify as well as on Youtube. If you do not have access to either of these streaming services you can also download the song in mp3 format. To see other suggestions on how to use this song in class, click here.

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Lyrics

Are you coming out?
Are you feeling proud?
Are you coming out?
Are you feeling proud?

Are you coming out? (Do you know yourself?)
Are you feeling proud? (Can you unlock your cell?)
Are you coming out? (Is it ’cause you’re shy?)
Are you feeling proud? (Don’t you feel that love you hide?)

Chorus
Are you coming out with me tonight?
Do you want to spread your wings and fly?
Can you break your chains and free your mind?
Will you love me till the day I die?

Repeat verse & chorus

Are you coming out with me tonight? (oh baby baby)
Do you want to spread your wings and fly? (come fly with me oh)
Can you break your chains and free your mind? (break those chains now baby)
Will you love me till the day I die? (I’d die for you)

Suggested activity: fill the gaps

Download this exercise (PDF)

Look at the phrases below, and try to match the first half of each question with the second half.

Are you coming…
Are you feeling…
Do you know…
Can you unlock…
It is ’cause…
Don’t you feel…
Are you coming…
Do you want…
Can you break…
Will you love..

…me ’till the day I die?
…out with me tonight?
…out?
…proud?
…that love you hide?
…your chains and free your mind?
…to spread your wings and fly?
…your cell?
…you’re shy?
…yourself?

Now listen to the song to check

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If you enjoyed the song or if you think it will be useful for your students at least, remember this song comes with a PDF worksheet and is also available on Spotify as well as on Youtube. If you do not have access to either of these streaming services, you can also download the song in mp3 format.

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