Lesson Plan: I WILL SURVIVE By Gloria Gaynor

1. Fill the blanks with the PAST TENSE or PAST PARTICIPLE forms of the verbs given below. Choose them according to the context and meaning. Then, listen to the song and check your answers (If You try to complete the gaps while listening to the song it will be very difficult).

Be, can, change, die, feel, grow, know, have, keep, lay, learn, make, walk, spend, take, try, use

At first I ______ afraid; I ______ petrified, ______

thinking I ______ never live without you by my side,

But then I ______ so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,

And I ______ strong, and ______ how to get along.

So you're back, from outer space

I just ______ in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,

I should have ______ that stupid lock,

I should have ______ you leave your key,

If I'd ______ for just one second you'd be back to bother me,

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,

'Cause you're not welcome anymore!

Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,

D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?

No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,

I know I am still alive.

I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,

I will survive, hey hey!

It ______ all the strength I ______ not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,

I ______ oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,

I ______ to cry, but now I hold my head up high,

And you see me, somebody new..I am not that chained up

little person still in love with you, and so you

just ______ like dropping in and just expect me to be free,

Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,

'Cause you're not welcome anymore!

Weren't you the one who ______ to break me with goodbyes,

D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?

No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,

I know I am still alive,

I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,

I will survive, oh yeah!

2. Circle the odd word out according to sound

survive, alive, give, sigh
Should, would, thought, look
So, got, broke, know
leave, break, space, save

3. Match the words and the prepositions

Get
Turn
Be
Walk
Lay
Fall

+++
around
apart
along
back
down
out
1................2. ................3. ................4. ................5. ................6. ................

I WILL SURVIVE By Gloria Gaynor

At first I was afraid; I was petrified,

Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side,

But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong,

And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along.

So you're back, from outer spaceI just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face,

I should have changed that stupid lock,

I should have made you leave your key,

If I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me,

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,

'Cause you're not welcome anymore!

Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,

D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?

No, not I, I will survive...oh as long as I know how to love,

I know I am still alive.

I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,

I will survive, hey hey!

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart,

Now I am trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart,

I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself,

I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high,

And you see me, somebody new..I am not that chained up

little person still in love with you, and so youjust felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free,

Now I am saving all my loving for someone who's loving me

Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,

'Cause you're not welcome anymore!

Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,

D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?

No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,

I know I am still alive,

I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,

I will survive, oh yeah!
Oh and now GO! Walk out the door! Just turn around now,

'Cause you're not welcome anymore!

Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes,

D' you Think I'd crumble, you think I'd lay down and die?

No, not I, I will survive,..oh as long as I know how to love,

I know I am still alive,

I got all my life to live, and I got all my love to give,

I will survive, oh yeah!

Thanks to this helpful webpage: http://www.isabelperez.com/songs/survive2.htm

Lesson Plan: Clocks by Coldplay

1. Fill in the blanks with the following words:

take - saved - wanted - singing - brought - closing

The lights go out and I can’t be ________________.

Tides that I tried to swim against

Have ________________ me down upon my knees

Oh I beg , I beg and I plead________________.

Come out of the things unsaid

Shoot an apple off my head

And a trouble that can’t be named

A tiger’s waiting to be tamed

Singing

You areYou are

Confusion that never stops

The ________________ walls and ticking clocks

Gonna come back and ________________ you home

I could not stop, that you now know

Singing

come out upon my seas

Cursed missed opportunities

Am I a part of the cure

Or am I part of the disease

Singing

You are, you are (4x)

And nothing else compares (4x)

You are, you are

Home, home where I ________________ to go (2x)

Home, home where I wanted to go (You are) (2x)

2. Write the sentences in the past tense.

a-The lights go out and I can’t be saved.

b-Oh I beg, I beg and I plead.

c-Gonna come back and take you home.

Clocks by Coldplay Lyrics

The lights go out and I can't be saved

Tides that I tried to swim against

Have brought me down upon my knees

Oh I beg, I beg and plead

singing

Come out of things unsaid

Shoot an apple off my head and a

Trouble that cant be named

A tiger's waiting to be tamed

singing

You areYou are

Confusion never stops

Closing walls and ticking clocks

Gonna come back and take you home

I could not stop that you now know

singing

Come out upon my seas,

Cursed missed opportunities

Am I a part of the cure

Or am I part of the disease,

singing

You are, you are, you are

You are, you are, you are

And nothing else compares

And nothing else compares

And nothing else compares

You areYou areHome,

home where I wanted to go

Home, home where I wanted to go

Home, home where I wanted to go

Home, home where I wanted to go

(Created by Byanca Costa & Danielle Spinola)

http://www.english4all.pro.br/Clocks.htm

Simple Past

April 2nd 2008,

(Positive) - She went to Paris last week.
(Nigetive) - They didn't (did not) drive to work.
(Question) - Where did she get that hat?
Actions happening at a defined moment in the past.

Simple Past - Use
The Simple Past is used to talk about actions or situations in the past. It is also called Past Simple.

Have a look at the following examples:
1) action finished in the past (single or repeated)
I visited Berlin last week.
Andrew watched TV yesterday.

2) series of completed actions in the past
First I got up, then I had breakfast.

3) together with the Past Progressive/Continuous
The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.
They were playing cards when the telephone rang.

1st action: Past Progressive were playing
2nd action: Simple Past rang

http://thelinguistsite.blogspot.com/2006/12/grammar-tenses-simple-past-tense.html

Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Active Voice (March 21st 2008)
In the active voice, the subject of the verb does the action (eg They killed the President). See also Passive Voice.

Adjective
A word like big, red, easy, French etc. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun.

Adverb
A word like slowly, quietly, well, often etc. An adverb modifies a verb.

Article
The "indefinite" articles are a and an. The "definite article" is the.

Auxiliary Verb
A verb that is used with a main verb. Be, do and have are auxiliary verbs. Can, may, must etc are modal auxiliary verbs.

Clause
A group of words containing a subject and its verb (for example: It was late when he arrived).

Conjunction
A word used to connect words, phrases and clauses (for example: and, but, if).

Infinitive
The basic form of a verb as in to work or work.

Interjection
An exclamation inserted into an utterance without grammatical connection (for example: oh!, ah!, ouch!, well!).

Modal Verb
An auxiliary verb like can, may, must etc that modifies the main verb and expresses possibility, probability etc. It is also called "modal auxiliary verb".

Noun
A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A "concrete noun" is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An "abstract noun" is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. A "countable noun" is something that you can count (for example: bottle, song, dollar). An "uncountable noun" is something that you cannot count (for example: water, music, money).

Object
In the active voice, a noun or its equivalent that receives the action of the verb. In the passive voice, a noun or its equivalent that does the action of the verb.

Participle
The -ing and -ed forms of verbs. The -ing form is called the "present participle". The -ed form is called the "past participle" (for irregular verbs, this is column 3).

Part Of Speech
One of the eight classes of word in English - noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

Passive Voice
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb (eg The President was killed). See also Active Voice.

Phrase
A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress).

Predicate
Each sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate is what is said about the subject.

Preposition
A word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction.

Pronoun
A word like I, me, you, he, him, it etc. A pronoun replaces a noun.

Sentence
A group of words that express a thought. A sentence conveys a statement, question, exclamation or command. A sentence contains or implies a subject and a predicate. In simple terms, a sentence must contain a verb and (usually) a subject. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!).

Subject
Every sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main noun (or equivalent) in a sentence about which something is said.

Tense
The form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). Note that the name of a tense is not always a guide to when the action happens. The "present continuous tense", for example, can be used to talk about the present or the future.

Verb
A word like (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin. A verb describes an action or state.

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/grammar-glossary.htm

Using simple past forms ending in -ed (January 14th 2008)

Directions:

In each of the following sentences cross out the underlined verb; then change it to the simple past and write the new word.

1. I ask my brother for money many times before I got my first job.

2. The vicious dog attack the children who were playing in the street.

3. Several other people use this book before I bought it.

4. Misunderstanding and prejudice separate people for many years.

5. Several times we talk too long on the telephone because we were thoughtless.

6. He always want a big car, although he never seem to be able to afford one.

7. When they were young, many people hope for a very successful life.

8. The traffic light change just as I stepped off the curb.

9. Most of our parents walk to school when they were students.

10. Last year during spring training, the baseball players jump rope.

How to change verbs into the past tense

• This worksheet explains how to change verbs into the past tense.

• Spelling rules are given at the top, and the children should insert the correct verbs into the sentences using the correct spelling.

• On this worksheet, there are no blank spaces so children have to decide where to insert the verb (and sometimes there are two verbs which need to be added to each sentence.

Verbs

• To change a verb into the past tense we add ed. (played, worked, waited)

• If the verb ends with an e, only add a d. (moved, hoped, liked)

• If the verb ends with a y, we change the y to an i and add ed. (dry - dried, tidy - tidied, copy- copied)

• If the verb ends in a consonant and has a short vowel sound we double the consonant and add ed. (robbed, stopped, tapped)

Write out the following sentences in your exercise books, fill in the missing verb(s) and add the correct ending.

1) The dog at the postman. (bark)

2) I to catch the ball, but I it. (try) (drop)

3) I have up my pocket money to buy a toy. (save)

4) Peter loudly then his nose. (sneeze) (wipe)

5) Janet when she fell and her knee. (cry) (bang)

6) The taxi when the man it down. (stop) (flag)

7) Betty up the box and it to the table. (lift) (carry)

Created by Michele Papageorghiou - Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ (January 4th 2008)

Lesson Plan: Christina Aguilera - Hurt

CHRISTINA AGUILERA LYRICS
"Hurt"

1) Write the verbs in the past simple.

Seems like it _________ (be) yesterday when I __________( see) your face
You ____________( tell) me how proud you __________(be)
but I ___________(walk)away
If only I ____________( know) what I know today

2) Listen and complete the missing words.

I would hold you in my ___________
I would take the __________ away
________________ for all you've done
Forgive all your _____________
There's ____________ I wouldn't do
To hear your _________ again___________
I want to call you but I know you won't be there

3) Order the lines.

______Some days I feel broke inside but I won't admit
______And I've hurt myself by hurting you
______I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
______You know it's so hard to say goodbye when it comes to this
______Sometimes I just want to hide 'cause it's you I miss

4) Unscramble the questions.

a) was/ tell/ I /wrong/ Would / you/ me ?__________________________________
b) understand/ Would/ help/ you/ me?______________________________________
c) upon/ you/ looking / are /me /down?____________________________________
d) I / proud / of / are/ you/ am/ who?_____________________________________
There's nothing I wouldn't doTo have just one more chance
To look into your eyes and see you looking back

5) Match the beginning and the end of the lines.

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything……………… since you've been away And I've hurt ……. I would tell you how much that If I had just one more day, …… myself I've missed you I just couldn't do Oh, it's dangerous
It's so out of line to try to turn back time
I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself
By hurting you

Hurt lyrics

Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face
You told me how proud you were but I walked away
If only I knew what I know today

I would hold you in my arms
I would take the pain away
Thank you for all you've done
Forgive all your mistakes
There's nothing I wouldn't do
To hear your voice again
Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won't be there

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself by hurting you
Some days I feel broke inside but I won't admit
Sometimes I just want to hide 'cause it's you I miss
You know it's so hard to say goodbye when it comes to this

Would you tell me I was wrong?
Would you help me understand?
Are you looking down upon me?
Are you proud of who I am?
There's nothing I wouldn't do
To have just one more chance
To look into your eyes and see you looking back

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself
If I had just one more day, I would tell you how much that
I've missed you since you've been away

Oh, it's dangerous
It's so out of line to try to turn back time

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself

By hurting you