Listening Activity 3

Judith Fernandez Diaz

Part 1: Schema Activation
Instructions: Based on the following pictures, describe what you think is
happening in the images.










Part 2 . Choose three different pictures that you liked, or find interesting
and write down one sentence per image.
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2.
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Part 3: Fill ( in the blanks with the correspondent word that
matches the song that the teacher will play. The song will be played only two
times.
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the ______ and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two ______too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good ______that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his _____ and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane ______ down he thought
"Well, isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think? It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take

Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a ______way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay
and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong
and everything blows up in your _______

A traffic jam when you're already ______
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons
when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my________
And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn't it ironic... don't you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free _____ when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
_________ has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out


Critical Thinking
Part 4. Instructions: According to the song you just heard. Choose a paragraph or
sentence and explain, based on your personal opinion:
Why do you think the singer choose to write it down? Explain also what would be
the opposite situation for the irony not to be present.

Part 5.
Instructions: Think about an ironic situation that has happened to you or someone
you know and share it with the rest of the class.