Music source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=C1lbOgBtE3w

Pre- listening activities

a. What words can you remember connected with:

Weather
The sun
People (gender, ages):
Nature and Animals (wild, pets, farm)
b. How do you take care of the planet? What measures, if any, do you take?
c. Do you participate in any environmental organization? Why? Why not?
d. Look at the pictures and complete the missing gaps in pencil with the word(s) you believe may be suitable in that
context.

Earth song By Michael Jackson

While-listening activities:

e. Listen to the song and check whether your predictions were right or wrong. Write the correct versions in pen.

What about ………?

What about ……..?

What about all the things that you said
we were to gain (obtener)?

What about killing ……..?

Is there a ………?
What about all the things
that you said ºwas …… and ……..?
Did you ever stop to notice all the
…………. we've shed (shed-shed-shed derramar, perder)

before?

Did you ever stop to notice this

………Earth, these ……. ?

Aah, ooh

What have we done to the …..?

Look what we've done!

What about all the ………

that you pledge (prometer) your only …?

What about flowering ………?

Is there a ………?
What about all the things
that you said ºwas yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice all the

….. …..from …..?

Did you ever stop to notice this

….. , these ……
……..?
Aah, ooh
Aah, ooh

I used to …………; I used to

glance beyond the

(ojear) ……
now I don't know where we are
although I know we've drifted far
Aah, ooh
(What about us)

Hey, what about yesterday? What about

… …….?
 … …….. are falling down

I can't even ………..

What about the ……… Earth?
Can`t we feel its wounds? What about

nature`s worth? It`s out planet`s

……. What about ………?We`ve

turned kingdoms to ……...What

about ……….?Have we lost their

trust? What about crying ……..?We

are ravaging (devastando) ……..What

about ….trails (senderos, huellas)

…….despite our pleas What about

(sùplicas)

the ….. …….?Torn apart by

creed (credo, creencia) What about the common
 …..? Can`t we set him free? What

about ……..dying? Can`t you

hear them ……. ? Where did we go
………? Someone tell me why What
about ……..? What about the

…….? What about all their joy?

What about the …..? What about

the …………man? What about

……….? What about ..again?

Do we give a damn???!