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WHEN I’M 64
Level : intermediate/upper-intermediate
Time: 45 minutes
Language functions/skills: predicting the future
Listening and speaking
Grammar focus: future tenses
Materials: a recording of the song by the Beatles
A copy of the worksheet for each student
(optionally one copy for 2-3 students).
Comments: a nice activity for Valentine’s Day.
In class:
1) Ask your students to think of the future. Let them imagine they are 64. What is their life like? Ask them to write down some ideas. To help them with this task, you can draw a spider diagram on the board:
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2) Next ask your students to work in pairs and talk about their visions of the future.
Then let them do it in groups of four. Ask them if they are generally optimistic or pessimistic about their future.
3) Give your students the worksheet, preferably bent so that they can only see the
pictures . Ask them what aspects of the life of an elderly person they present.
4) Students listen to the song and put the pictures in the right order.
5) Students read the lyrics, listen to the song and only circle the wrong words.
6) They listen again and try to replace the wrong words with the right ones. This might be difficult, so tell them to do as many as they can!
7) Students listen to the song and sing along.
8) Homework (optional) : you could ask your students to write a letter that would be an answer to the words of the song.
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR - worksheet
Listen to the song and decide on the right order of the pictures:
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now listen to the song once again and correct the mistakes in the lyrics:
When I get old losing my hair, Give me your answer, fill in a box
Many years from now. Mine foe evermore,
Will you still be faxing me a Valentine, Will you still need me, will you .....
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to four,
Would you lock the floor?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm 64?
You'll be older too.
And if you save the world,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy mending a bulb
When your lights have gone,
You can knit a jumper by the fireside,
Sunday mornings go for a walk.
Cleaning the garden ...