I used this song with my students last year.
I combined some of the activities from here and added some follow-up writing activities.
1.First I asked my students who we thank in our lives. I wrote some phrases on the board to help them to express themselves. I gave them post-it notes and I divided them into groups I told them they have to thank the friends in their groups. I elicited the sentence and wrote some examples on the board “Thank you X for being very helpful” I also told them that they have to say a different THANK YOU to each of their friends. I put all the thank you post-it notes on the walls.
2. Then I asked them to list what the following words and phrases bring into their mind.
morning
tea
rain
bills
being late for work
home
picture
3. I told my students to guess what the song we were going to listen be about using the words and phrases from exercise 1 and 2 write what the song we are going to listen will be about.
Then we listened to Dido’s Thank You and filled in the gaps on their handouts.
I also assigned them with a few follow-ups.
4. Understanding the song:
- What kind of a day did she experience?
- Why isn’t she unhappy?
- How would she have felt in the song, if she didn’t have someone supportive in her life?
5. writing:
Change the song into a thank you letter. You may want to begin as below
Dear …..
You are sleeping now and I’m watching you. I know we couldn’t speak tonight as I was very tired but I want to thank you because —–
BTW I got really interesting letters written to their mothers 🙂
6. narrative:
This song can also be used for revising narrative tenses or writing a narrative. After listening to the song you can ask your students to write ‘an unlucky day in the life of ——-‘ or you can tell your students to write a story of a day based on the song.
Grade 11 SD Thank You notes.
Grade 12 follow ups
An animation
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a summary and a thank you with good old power point
I am sorry, I have a question, the question of
“Why isn’t she unhappy?” is it correct? or you probably want to say “why is she unhappy?”
Thank you.
Thanks for dropping by.
despite all the negative things, when she arrived home she was not unhappy. I just want my sts to find out why she was not unhappy.
Eva