Music source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lbOgBtE3w

Pre- listening activities

1. What words can you remember connected with:

Weather

The sun

People (gender, ages):

Nature and Animals (wild, pets, farm)

2. How do you take care of the planet? What measures, if any, do you take?
3. Do you participate in any environmental organization? Why? Why not?
4. Look at the pictures and complete the missing gaps in pencil with the word(s) you believe may be suitable in that context.

Earth song By Michael Jackson

While-listening activities:

5. Listen to the song and check whether your predictions were right or wrong. Write the correct versions in pen.  

What about   ………?

What about   ……..?

What about all the things that you said
we were to gain (obtener)?

What about killing ……..?
Is there a  ………?
What about all the things
that you said ºwas …… and ……..?

Did you ever stop to notice all the  …………. we've shed (shed-shed-shed derramar, perder) before?

Did you ever stop to notice this  ………Earth, these  …….  ?

Aah, ooh

What have we done to the …..?
Look what we've done!
What about all the ………
that you pledge (prometer) your only …?

What about flowering ………?
Is there a  ………?
What about all the things
that you said ºwas yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice all the   …..   …..from  …..?
Did you ever stop to notice this   ….. , these  …… ……..?

Aah, ooh
Aah, ooh

I used to …………; I used to glance (ojear) beyond the  ……
now I don't know where we are
although I know we've drifted far

Aah, ooh
(What about us)

Hey, what about yesterday?  What about … …….?

   … …….. are falling down
I can't even   ………..
What about the ……… Earth?

Can`t we feel its wounds? What about nature`s worth? It`s out planet`s ……. What about  ………?We`ve turned kingdoms to ……...What about  ……….?Have we lost their trust? What about crying  ……..?We are ravaging (devastando)  ……..What about    ….trails (senderos, huellas)   …….despite our pleas (sùplicas)What about the  ….. …….?Torn apart by creed (credo, creencia)What about the common …..? Can`t we set him free? What about   ……..dying? Can`t you hear them ……. ? Where did we go ………? Someone tell me why What about  ……..? What about the  …….? What about all their joy?

What about the …..? What about the  …………man? What about  ……….? What about  ..again?

Do we give a damn???!

Frank Sinatra

New York, New York

Start spreading the _______  news/knew
I am ___________ today  living/leaving
I want to be a ______of it  slice/part
New York, New York 

These vagabond ________ boots/shoes
They are longing to _______ stray/stick
Right through the very ________ of it center/heart
New York, New York 

I want to wake up in that ______ city/town 
That doesn't _______ wake/sleep
And find I'm king of the ________ hill/mountain
Top of the _______ heap/hope

My little town __________ reds/blues
They are _______  away     melting/mending
I gonna make a brand new _______ of it  start/stop
In old New York 

If I can make it there 
I'll make it ____________ somewhere/anywhere
It's up to you 
New York, New York 

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Language analysis: what do you think these words/expressions mean:

Vagabond:

That city that doesn't sleep:

My little town blues:

If I can make it there...:

Stressed Out

by Twenty One Pilots

I wish I _____________some better sounds no one’s ever _________.

I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words.

I wish I found some chords in an order that is ___________.

I wish I ____________rhyme every time I sang.

I was told when I get older all my ____________ would shrink,

But now I’m insecure, and I ___________what people _________.

My name’s “Blurryface^[1],” and I __________ what you _________.

My name’s “Blurryface,” and I ___________what you __________.

Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days,

When our mama sang us to ________, but now we’re stressed out. (x2)

Sometimes a certain __________ will take me back to when I was young.

How come I’m never able to identify where it’s coming from?

I’d make a ___________ out of it if I ever found it,

Try to sell it, never sell out of it. I’d probably only sell one--

It’d be to my brother, ‘cause we have the same nose,

Same clothes, homegrown, a stone’s throw from a creek we used to roam,

But it would remind us of when nothing really mattered.

Out of student loans and treehouse homes, we all would take the latter.^[2]

CHORUS

We used to play p__________, give each other different n________.

We would build a ______________and then we’d fly it far away.

Used to ___________of outer space, but now they’re laughing at our face.

Saying, “Wake up, you need to _______________!” (X2)

CHORUS (X2)

Beyoncé - If I Were a Boy

A – Before watching the video, fill in the gaps with second conditional structures, using the verbs in parenthesis.

If I _______________ a boy  (be)
even just for a day
I _________________________ out of bed in the morning     (roll)
and throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with the guys
and chase after girls
I ____________________ it with who I wanted    (kick)
and  I ___________________ confronted for it   (*never* get)
cause they stick up for me

Chorus:

If I were a boy
I think I could ____________________   (understand)
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I'd be a better man
I ______________________ to her     (listen)
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he's taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy
I _______________________ off my phone    (turn off)
Tell everyone it's broken
so they'd think that I was sleeping alone

I ________________________ myself first     (put)
and make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she _________________ faithful,   (be)
waiting for me to come home, to come home.

[Chorus]

It's a little too late for you to come back
Say it's just a mistake,
think I'd forgive you like that
If you ____________________ I _____________________ for you     (think)      (wait)
you thought wrong

But you're just a boy
You don't understand
and you don't understand, ohhhh
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you wish you ______________ a better man    (be)
You don't listen to her
You don't care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you're taking her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

But you're just a boy

B – Watch the video and after that, in pairs, discuss these questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M

• Have you ever wished that you were someone else?
• Do you think relationships are now more balanced than they used to be in our mother’s time?
• If you knew your partner had cheated on you, would you accept his/her apology, or would you break up?
• In your opinion, being a man is easier than being a woman?

We Don’t Talk Anymore

Chorus

1. Fill in the chorus with the words:
   Do – Love – Like – Was – Used 

We don't talk anymore (3x)
____________ we ____________ to ____________
We don't ____________ anymore
What ____________ all of it for?
Oh, we don't talk anymore
____________ we ____________ to ____________

2. Fill in the blanks with the verbs bellow in the gerund  or past tense forms:

I just _______________ you _______________ the one you've been _______________
You've been _______________ for
I wish I would have known that _______________n't me
Cause even after all this time I still wonder
Why I can't move on
Just the way you _______________ so easily

Don't wanna know
What kind of dress you're _______________ tonight
If he's _______________ onto you so tight
The way I _______________ before
I _______________
Should've known your love _______________ a game
Now I can't get you out of my brain
Oh, it's such a shame
Chorus

3. Circle the word that actually appears in the lyrics:
   
   I just hope you're lying (next to / close to) somebody
   (She / Who) knows how to love you like me
   There must be a good (reason / excuse) that you're gone
   Every (now and then / then and now) I think you
   Might want me to come show up at your (house / door)
   But I'm just too (scared / afraid) that I'll be wrong
   Don't wanna know
   If you're looking into her (mind / eyes)
   If she's holding onto you so (tight / kind)
   the way I did (before / no more)
   I overdosed
   Should've known your love was a (shame / game)
   Now I can't get you out of my (frame / brain)
   Oh, it's such a (shame / blame)
   
   Chorus
   
4. Order the lines from 1 to 8, then tick the one which is different.
   (        ) I overdosed
   (        ) Don't wanna know
   (        ) Now I can't get you out of my brain
   (        ) What kind of dress you're wearing tonight
   (        ) If he's holding onto you so tight
   (        ) Should've known your love was a game
   (        ) Oh, it's such a shame
   (        ) The way I did before
   Chorus 2x
   
   That we don't talk anymore

5. Find in the lyrics then rewrite them below:

1. 5 modal verbs: 1.________________; 2. ________________; 3.________________; 4.________________; 5.________________.
2. 1 present perfect continuous:
   ______________________________________________________________________
3. 2 1st conditionals: 1.____________________________________________________________________
   2.____________________________________________________________________
4. 1 3rd conditional:
   ______________________________________________________________________