Song Context
Who sang 'Beds Are Burning'?
Midnight Oil
Name 3 language features. (IMPASS)
Imagery, Metaphor
Personification, Alliteration
Simile, Symbolism
Name 3 Text structures- CRRS
Chorus, repetition, rhyme scheme, stanza
The song wants the audience to feel concerned about what issue?
Land rights for the Indigenous people.
Finish the quote: “The time has come to say…”
“Fair’s fair”
What is the song trying to raise awareness of?
Land being taken from the Indigenous people.
What does 'The bloodwood and the desert oak' symbolise?
The Australian desert.
What text structure repeats words or lines to make ideas memorable.
Repetition
What does this line make the audience think about- 'It belongs to them, let's give it back'?
Think about giving back the land.
Finish the quote: “To pay the rent, to pay our…”
“share”
How do the Indigenous people see the land?
As a living, breathing part of their life.
What language Feature is - Fair's fair?
Alliteration
Say the first two lines of the chorus- Hint - How can ..
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
What does this line tells us about this land- 'boiling diesels Steam at forty-five degrees'
It is very hot, it is a desert.
Finish the quote: “It belongs to them…”
“let’s give it back”
What does the song want people to think about?
How the Indigenous people lost their land.
What language feature is- “The Western Desert lives and breathes”?
Personification
Why is the chorus repeated through the song?
To help people remember the message of the song which is that the land needs to be given back.
The song encourages people to feel sympathy toward Indigenous Australians- by which line?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
It belongs to them, let's give it back.
Finish the quote: “How do we sleep while our…”
beds are burning?
What does this line mean-“It belongs to them, let’s give it back”?
It is time to give the Indigenous people their land back.
What do you imagine, as in Imagery, when you hear the words - 'It belongs to them, let's give it back.'
It is time to give the land back to the Indigenous people.
What is the song writer wanting to achieve by repeating “fair’s fair”?
It helps persuade the audience that Indigenous Australians deserve the land back as it is only fair.
What does the song want the listener to do? (and it is not just give back the land). Think about unfair, it belongs to them,
The song wants listeners to stop ignoring unfair treatment of Indigenous Australians.
Finish the quote: “The Western Desert lives and…”
'breathes'