[clivehawkins]

There's a song by The Streets called Dry your eyes mate.
I use it for advanced level.

I do a lesson about relationships and how what men and women complain about \ reasons for splitting up \ ways of splitting up.

I use this song as a way to close the topic.

First I give them some gist questions ( who is leaving who? how do they feel? etc)
Then we look at the lyrics sheet (with gaps) and we listen again for the gap fill activity.
Then we go through what the lyrics mean and discuss the ideas in the song and compare them to the ideas we talked about earlier in the lesson.

It's quite tough but I've always had a really positive response from the group.