Task 11 - Hotpotatoes activities "The Blues are still Blue" - The Blues' Cloze

Hot Potatoes is a very interesting and useful tool to create interactive and funny activities with our students.

In this case, we are going to practice their listening skills through a song. We have chosen "The Blues are still Blue" from the magnificent group Belle and Sebastian . Yes. I know the chances of a 4th of ESO student knowing this group is basically inexistent. However, life would be very boring if we don't take some risks...

This is a nice song because it mixes vocabulary they know with new, and more difficult words and expressions that they would probably don't know. Our Hot Potatoes has been created for a A2 4th of ESO student.

As this is a long song, and don't want to make this exercise boring, The first exercise, the JCloze is dealing with the first part of the song. 

We are going to provide our students with the videoclip of the song (at least at ther very beginning...we have prepared a little surprise for them):

The Blues are still Blue

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Look at the kid from . He’s teaching mamas and how to be a little cool
He’s changing , the way he dress. The tracksuits are , and the hoody’s way too moody
For a with the will to funk. He dances in ; he’s a part-time punk

She’s getting off the plane
She wants to write a thesis on the underprivileged
The kids up the lane
Shop lifting, just drifting
Like The Switchblade And The Cross
But if there’s she’s got the moves
She’s taking an elementary in Kung fu

I left my washing in the
You can put some on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my washing
The will be grey and the white will be
But the blues are still