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“If I were a rich man” Vs “Rich Girl”

Wednesday 2 July 2008, by laurenceb

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This lesson plan is based on two video-clips that are two different interpretations, at two different epoques, of the same popular song. Students really enjoy the videos and the lesson plan!

This “If I were a rich man” vs “Rich girl” lesson plan starts with two before-watching vocabulary activities for each video.

Worksheet1 is the before watching activity for “If I were a rich man”.

Worksheet 2 is the before-watching activity for “Rich Girl”. Both are similar: the task is to sort out vocabulary used in the song according to their semantic-field (money, people, places, etc.).

After watching both videos, students should be ready to compare them usingWorksheet 3

Eventually, students have to write about what they would do if they were a rich/poor man or girl.Worksheet 4 should help students cope with this task.

As a final task/project, I play and provide the students with an instrumental version of the song and they have to write their own lyrics. You can download the Instrumental version here. Note that students may use such a freeware as Audacity to record their own voice over the music as in a karaoke. They may also be asked to create their own video-clip!

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Fiddler on the Roof

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof

On The Internet Movie Data Base http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/

Gwen Stefani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani

http://www.gwenstefani.com/

Money: lesson plans

http://www.michellehenry.fr/argent.htm

 Watch

Fiddler on the Roof (1971) ,a musical

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc

Rich Girl : Gwen Stefani (2004)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q9ub_gwen-stefani-richgirl_


Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl
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