Heal the world

Part 1: The lyrics

Listen to the song and complete the blanks with the words in the box below.
place (x2)
dying (x3)

try
sorrow
cry

living (x3)

tomorrow

Theres a place in your heart and I know that it is love

And this place could be much brighter than (1) ______________
And if you really (2) __________________,
Youll find theres no need to (3) _______________
In this place youll fell theres no hurt or (4) ______________
There are ways to get there
If you enough for the living
Make a little (5) ________________
To make a (6) ________________.

(Chorus x 4)
Heal the world make it a better (7) ___________
For you and for me and the entire human (8) _____________
And there are people (9) _______________
If you care enough for the (10) _______________
Make a better place for you and for me.
There are people (11) ____________
If you care enough for the (12) _____________
Make a better place for you and for me
There are people (13) _______________
If you care enough for the (14) _______________
Make a better place for you and for me
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You and
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You and
You and

for
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me
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/ Heal the world we live in

/ Save it for our children
/ Heal the world we live in
/ Save it for our children
/ Heal the world we live in
/ Save it for our children
/ Heal the world we live in
/ Save it for our children

Heal the World (Ave)

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Part 2: Focusing on the message

Having read the lyrics, please answer the following questions,

1. Write the words that you hear many times in the song below.

2. What is the main message of the song? (Circle the answer.)

a.
b.
c.
d.

Many people are dying.

People have love in their hearts.
There is a better place in the world.
We should make the world a better place.

3. Why are some words repeated so many times in this song?

4. If we want to do what the song asks us to do, who are the people we can help?

5. What can we do to help them?

Heal the World (Ave)

Part 3: Making the world a better place

You are going to tell your classmates about the people you think you and your classmates should
help and the ways to help them.
Below are some ideas you can use but you do NOT have to talk about all of them. Make use of the
mind map to help you organise the ideas before telling your classmates what you think. You can
add in your own ideas if you like.
People you can help:
old people living alone, homeless people, children in poor countries,
Things you can do to help and examples (not organised properly):
friends, things I dont need, join a social service group that helps them, classmates, write to
newspapers, money to charities that help them, family members, ask more people to help them,

(Who do you want to

help?)

give away

talk to

You can use the following words to help you with your presentation.
I think we should do something to help (name the people you want to help here)
___________________________. There are one / two ways to help them. First, we can
________________________. For example, we can ______________________. Also, we can
_____________________, such as ______________.
If everyone is willing to do something to help (name the people you want to help here)
___________________________, Im sure that our world will become a better place.

Heal the World (Ave)