Listen to Michael Jackson’s famous song “Heal The World”, find its lyrics, and

do the following sections.

A. Read the following list of words and their meaning. Check whether the words
on left match their meanings on the right. Identify two words which do not
match with their meanings. Correct them.

1. Sorrow a. polite and pleasant

2. Bliss b. perfect happiness or enjoyment
c. to feel worried about something that is
3. Dread
going to happen or may happen
d. imagine a particular situation that is
4. Conceive going to
happen or may happen
5. Grace e. a feeling of great sadness
f. to limit the growth or development
6. Strangle
of something
g. to kill someone by crucifying them to
7. Crucify
a cross
8. Glow h. a soft steady light
9. Plain i. very clear and easy to understand
j . all of a group, period of time, amount,
10.Entire
etc.

B. Pronounce these words and record your voice

sorrow : /ˈsɒrəʊ/
bliss : / blɪs /
dread : / dred /
be conceived in : / bi:kənsiːvin /
grace : / ɡreɪs /
strangle : / ˈstræŋɡəl /
 crucify : / ˈkruːsəfaɪ/
glow : / ɡloʊ /
plain : / pleɪn /
entire : / ɪnˈtaɪə /
C. Fill in the blanks with the right words. Some words can be used more than
once.

entire bliss conceive dread glow

plain strangle sorrows grow crucify

1. Selfishness ________ the growth of friendship among us in this class.

2. We will always remember the joys and s ________ that we have shared together
during our community service that helped the victim of the landslide.
3. My idea of b ________ is lying on a reclining seat under a shady tree reading a
good book surrounded by children who are reading their own books too.
4. The disaster has left nothing but the clothes that we are wearing. We are d_______
our future but optimistic because we will always help each other in difficult time like
this.
5. The orange g________ of the sunset at the beach is so mesmerizing that I cannot
stop feeling grateful for having this amazingly beautiful country as my homeland.
6. The significance of preserving peace and harmony is ________. Everybody
understands that. Only in peace, people can work for better future.
7. Greed and selfishness may c________ somebody’s soul that makes a person
unaware of his or her surroundings. A greedy and selfish person will eventually live
a lonely life because he or she cares for no one but himself or herself.
8. Let’s c ________ of a city where most people ride bicycles to their work places and
schools. Can our city be possibly like that? What do we need to do first?
9. My friend Lily is more mature than most of us. She always handles herself in
g________ by for instance avoiding any unnecessary arguments with us.
10. The days I spent in this school with my teachers and classmates have been the best
moments in my ________ life so far.
D. Read again the lyrics of the song. Then, answer the following questions.
1. What does the title describe? What does the composer compare the world with?
2. How does the composer describe the world that we live in now? Mention some
phrases from the lyrics that can support your answer.
3. What dream does the singer have about this world? Quote some phrases from the
lyrics.
4. How can the dream be realized? Show the lines that
tells so.
5. What is one thing that can solve problems in this world?
6. What do you understand about these lines: “make a little
space make a better place …”