Carlton was born in Milford, Pennsylvania to Ed Carlton, a pilot, and Heidi, a pianist and school music teacher. She has two younger siblings, a sister, Gwen and a brother, Edmund. Her uncle, Larry Carlton, is a jazz guitarist. Her ancestry is half Russian Jewish and half Scandinavian and Native American. Her interest in music began at an early age; after returning from Disneyland at the age of two, she played “It’s a Small World” on the piano. Her mother then began to tutor her on the piano.
A Thousand Miles”, originally titled “Interlude”, was recorded for her in 2002 debut album Be Not Nobody. It was co-produced and co-arranged by Carlton and Ron Fair, and was released as the album’s first single in 2002. Her signature song, it became Carlton’s breakthrough hit and one of the most popular songs of the year.
Before the song:
1 Mile is is 5280 feet (think five tomato: five, two, eight, zero)
But how long is it in metres?
a) 1,590.862 metres
b) 1, 800 metres
c) 1,609.344 metres
d) 860 metres
Listen to the song or pause it as many times as you need.
1. Click on the right word that you hear.
Making my way around / down town
Walking fast / last
Faces passed / pass
And I’m home bound / top round
2. There is an extra word in each line. Click on it.
Staring blankly in ahead
Just again making my way
Making a new way
Through out the crowd
CHORUS
Oh, And I need you
And I miss you too
And now I still wonder
3. Fill the gaps with words from the box.
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you, tonight
4. Match the halves of the lines.
It’s always times like these
When I think of you
And I wonder
If you ever think of me
‘Cause everything’s so wrong
And I don’t belong
Living in your precious memory
‘Cause
CHORUS
I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder
If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by, oh
‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight
And I, I don’t want to let you know I,
I drown in your memory I,
I don’t want to let this go
I,I don’t.
Repeated from the beginning (with some variations – check song with lyrics)
5. Match the verbs with the prepositions as you hear them in the song.
1- to walk fast
2- to pass by
3- to think of you
4- to drown in memory
5- to fall into the sky
6- to stare ahead
6. Match the definitions with expressions from the song.
| the center of a city | downtown |
| moving or traveling homeward | homebound |
| to experience an overabundance of something | drown in something |
| without expression | blankly |
| blankly | crowd |
| to gaze fixedly into something | stare |
| stop trying to control something | let something go |
| inform someone | let somebody know |
7. Unjumble the words and reconstruct the sentence.
1) I’d walk a thousand miles if I could just see you .
2) I wonder if I could fall into the sky .
8. Which statement is true about the previous unjumbled sentences? Click on the right one.
a) Both sentences are conditional sentences.
b) Both sentences are indirect sentences.
c) The 1st sentence is a conditional the 2nd sentence is an indirect sentence.
d) The 2nd sentence is a conditional the 1st sentence is an indirect sentence.
Song with lyrics:
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