This lesson is for advanced ESL learners. It provides a great balance of listening, vocabulary and pronunciation.
Warm-up: Ask the class the following questions and write notes on the whiteboard
How much is a million dollars in your country? Is this person considered to be “rich?”
What are some examples of things that you can buy for a million dollars?
Do you think that you’ll ever have a million dollars?
The students are advised that in today’s lesson we will be listening to a song called “If I had a Million dollars” by The Barenaked Ladies. That this group is a well known Canadian Band in Canada.
Activity:
Section 1 - Students are asked to listen to the song and write down what they believe are keywords
Section 2 - Students are advised we will listen to the song again and they are to fill in the blank.
Section 3 they are to get in groups of 2 and complete the questions
Once the activity is completed the class is asked to sing the song with me. When it comes to the fill in the blank words I will stop but use both hands to point to the class to have them say the word. This way if the word is not pronounced properly I am able to correct them.
Wrap-up: As we are wrapping up the activity I ask the class what they would do if they had a million dollars?
“If I Had a Million Dollars”
by
The Barenaked Ladies
Section 1: Write down what keywords are talked about in the song.
Section 2: Fill in the blanks
If I had a million dollars x2
I'd buy you a _____________ x2
If I had a million dollars x2
I'd buy you f______________ for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you a K-_______
(A nice Reliant _____________)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your _______
If I had a million dollars
I'd build a _________ fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could __________, it wouldn't be that ______
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny ________ in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already foods laid out for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things
…..........
If I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you a fur _____
(But not a _______ fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you an exotic ____
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy _____________ bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your _____
If I had a million dollars
We __________ ________ ____ walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a ______________ 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to _______ Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat ________
And buy really ____________ ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ... dijon ketchups!
If I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you a ________ ___________
(But not a real green dress, that's _________)
And if I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you some ______
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars x2
Well, I'd buy you a ________
(Haven't you always wanted a________)
If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your ____________
If I had a million dollars x5
I'd be _______
Section 3: use your phones and look on the Internet. Some words have more than one meaning, but choose which one you think applies to this song.
1. What is a chesterfield?
2. Who is John Merrick? What are the “elephant bones?”
3. What is Kraft Dinner?
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