ACTIVITY 8

Listen to a song: I’ll be there for you

Main goals: Activating prior knowledge and predicting.  Using bottom-up strategies.

                     Teaching a  song and giving students the opportunity to sing.

Time: 45 - 90 minutes. (Depending on the students’ needs)        

Materials: worksheets, and BB. (Just the three first stanzas of the song)

Level: medium/hard

Technical requirements: audio player or internet connection

Warm up/ Pre-Listening activity

Batman/Robin             Timon/Pumbaa       Phineas/Ferb      Mario/Luigi

                                                 Friends

While-Listening activities

I will tell them the song is about “Friends” I will ask the students to predict words in the song. They are going to be written on the BB Then, students will listen to check if their words appear.

They are going to listen to the whole song.

Stanza 1
Recognizing chunks and ordering them.
Students will try to order the verse. Then, they will listen to the song as many times as necessary. Finally, they listen, and check.

_________ your love life's D.O.A.

_________So no one told you life was gonna be this way

_________When it hasn't been your day, your week,

_________Your job's a joke, you're broke,

_________your month, or even your year, but ...

_________It's like you're always stuck in second gear

Students will definitely ask the meaning of D.O.A (dead on arrival)


Stanza 2 - Chorus

Students will listen to the second verse and cross out extra words.

Students will listen to and sing.

I'll be there for you

(When the cold rain starts to pour)

I'll be there for you

(Like I've always been there before)

I'll be there for you friend

('Cause you're there for me too) Chorus

Stanza 3

To activate prior knowledge and develop students’ awareness of pronunciation and spelling by means of recognizing and writing words.

Listen and complete the lines. Students should be asked to think about the answer to the questions.

Before listening,  think and guess:

  1. What time can work begin?
  2. What meal can you burn?
  3. Who can warn you about bad days?

You're still in bed at ten and work began at (1) ____________

You've burned your  (2)____________ , so far things are going great

Your (3) ____________  warned you there'd be days like these

But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees and

 

 I’ll be there with you

If the rain starts to fall

I’ll be there with you

since I’ve been there before

I’ll be there with you

so you’re there for me too.

 
Post listening activities

The whole song is going to be sung.

Students should discuss the strategies used to handle the activities.

Then the students are going to tell which the most important lines are and why.

This song has a lot of meaning to be exploited; students really enjoy talking about friends, friendship, honesty, etc.


Students will create a Wordle http://www.wordle.net/create about their best friend.