Listening Activity for "We Are What We Live In..." Lesson Plan

Listening Activity.

Exercise 1. Based on your imagination fill-in the gaps with the appropriate words. Then check your variants with those from the song (first sequence from minute 0:00-2:00).

What about ….

What about …..

What about all the …..

That ….. said we were to gain.

What …… killing fields

Is there a …..

What about …..the things

That you said was yours and …..

Did you …… stop to notice

All the blood we've shed …..

……you ever stop to notice

The …. Earth the weeping shores?

Exercise 2. Insert the given words into the appropriate place. Then check them when listening to this song’s extract.  (second sequence from min 2:00-4:20)

son, world, notice, peace, time, mine, fields, war, Earth, done, stop, dreams.

What have we done to the …..

Look what we've ……

What about all the ……

That you pledge your only …..

What about flowering ……

Is there a ……

What about all the …….

That you said was yours and …….

Did you ever stop to ……

All the children dead from ……

Did you ever ……. to notice

The crying …..  the weeping shores.
Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah

Execrise 3: Arrange the lines in the correct order.Check your variant with the one from the song. (the third sequence from minute 4:20-5:18)

?	The heavens are falling down (What about us)
?	What about nature's worth (ooo,ooo)
?	I can't even breathe (What about us)
?	What about the seas (What about us)
?	Can't we feel its wounds (What about us)
?	It's our planet's womb (What about us)
?	Hey, what about yesterday (What about us)
?	What about the bleeding Earth (What about us)
?	What about elephants (What about us)
?	What about forest trails (ooo, ooo)
?	Have we lost their trust (What about us)
?	Burnt despite our pleas (What about us)
?	We've turned kingdoms to dust (What about us)
?	What about crying whales (What about us)
?	We're ravaging the seas (What about us)
?	What about animals (What about it)

Exercise 4.Replace the underlined words with their antonyms.  Listen to the song and check your answers while listening this extract from the song. (from minute 5.18-6.00)
What about the holy sky
(What about it)
Torn together by creed
(What about us)
What about the common animal
(What about us)
Can't we set him closed
(What about us)
What about children living
(What about us)
Can't you hear them laugh
(What about us)
Where did we go correct
(ooo, ooo)
No one tell me why
(What about us)
What about grown-ups
(What about it)
What about the nights
(What about us)
What about all their sorrow
(What about us)
Who about the man
(What about us)
What about the smiling man
(What about us)
What about John Wilkes Booth[1]

 (What was us)
What about birth again (ooo, ooo)
Do we take a damn.

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[1] the assassin of an American President,1865.