Poems + Billie Holiday, a sensitive singer

Hey,

today you had the visit of Michelle, our new language assistant. I hope it will be possible in the future to have her again so that she can teach you some stuff in English.

Then we continued the lesson, studying the text and in particular Billie Holiday's physical reactions when she sang the song Strange Fruit on stage. Here is what we said:

The "sensitive" singer:

Billie Holiday is a sensitive singer/ an emotional singer
l. 29 "it affects me so much I get sick" ==> physical reaction.

In the song, she refers to the five senses.

She can picture the scene of a necktie party.
It's so powerful that she can smell, taste... everything. It is as if the scene were real / she were / was witnessing the scene / it became true.

As if + preterit (modal) ==> comparaison irréelle.
as if/ as though

Voc:

to vomit / throw up / to puke
to faint

HW: for next time, you need to learn your lesson.