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Tom Lehrer - Pollution
A gap-fill for a very funny song satirizing pollution by Tom Lehrer. The song is as topical today as it was 50 years ago.
His songs are available on the Internet, the iTunes store, and Amazon (sung by him and a version from the musical "TomFoolery.")
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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Tom Lehrer - Irish Ballad
Very funny song by math professor Tom Lehrer about an Irish girl who does her whole family in. Here are several different illustrated worksheets for different levels. The song is readily available on the Internet, Amazon, and the iTunes Store.
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Strangers in the Night
Here are 2 exercises around the song, leading up to a fun role-play of 2 strangers meeting in the night.
I begin by having the students working in pairs to join together phrases from the song that are on the slips of paper. Then I play the song so they can complete the task. Next give them the worksheet with the gaps, and ask them to try to fill i...
Level: elementary
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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Stand by Me
A gap-fill exercise for a song which is ranked number 121 on Rolling Stone�s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was also the theme song of the 1986 movie of the same name.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 7
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What Kind of Fool Am I?
Gap-fill exercise for this moving song by talented singer, Sammy David, Jr. it should be easy to find on the Internet or the iTunes Store.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 1
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Simon & Garfunkle - Richard Cory
Here is a fun exercise for Simon & Garfunkle�s song, �Richard Cory,� which is an adaptation of Edwin Arlington Robinson�s poem. Pass out strips of the lyrics, and ask the students in groups of 2s or 3s to assemble them in order to tell a story in poem form. (Don�t mention songs or music at this point.) Play some Simon & Garfunkle songs as backgroun...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
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Sounds of Silence
Several worksheets for this great song by Simon & Garfunkle. One activity involves students working in groups of 3 to reconstitute the lyrics before listening.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Memory
Susan Boyle, Barbra Streisand, and Elaine Paige have all sung this beautiful song from "Cats." With this worksheet, students predict the grammatical words in each blank, and then either listen to the song or work in groups of 3s dictating the correct answers to each other.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
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Why Can�t the English?
In "My Fair Lady," Professor Henry Higgins laments that no one speaks correct English. Here the students identify the different nationalities/countries accused of massacring the language.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Blowin� in the Wind
Several different exercises here for Bob Dylan�s song, "Blowin� in the Wind."
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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