I´VE BEEN WAITING

BEFORE LISTENING:

Exercise 1: The teacher will give students the following list of words: Gir, raining, call,  love, wait, telephone, happy. Looking at the words and images below, students will have to guess what is happening in the song.

   

Exercise 2: How do you think the fourth picture will be?

AFTER LISTENING:

Exercise 3: Listen and check your predictions.

Exercise 4: Put the following lines in order, then listen and check.

•       The boy is waiting happily.
•      The boy tries to call her.
•      The boy is sad, very sad.
•       He has been waiting for two hours. He is standing alone.
•       Now the only thing to do is going back home.

Exercise 5: Students have to write the answer to the following question: Why do you think she didn´t go?

Exercise 6: Students have to invent and write the end they like the most.

Exercise 7: Working in pairs. Imagine that you are the boy and a few days later, you see her again. What would you do? Write a short dialogue.

Exercise 8 Working in groups.  Play a Role – Play your dialog: This song can also be played as a Drama. Students working in groups will invent a script. It will be a dialogue between a girl and a boy and another possible character if they want. Then, they will be able to do the role play in class.

Homework:

1º) Write the Diary of this boy after the date. How do you feel? What do you think about her? Do you think that she has really stood you up? Etc.

Made by: Cristina Muñoz, Pablo Pérez.