Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder – That’s What Friends Are For
- Activity type: rhyming words, gap fill.
- Grammar: present simple,present continuous, past simple, imperative, future will, can, should, past conditional, 3rd conditional.
- Time: 15 mins.
- Note: This was written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, and first performed by Rod Stewart. It became a huge hit when it was recorded as a charity single by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder, to benefit the American Foundation for AIDS Research. It spent four weeks at Number One in the U.S.A. in January 1986, becoming the biggest selling single of that year and raising over three million dollars for AIDS research.
Worksheet written by Prof. Laura Casolero, Grumo Nevano (NA)
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Very beautiful song and work for the students. I’d use it in class for sure.
Very impressive song. Students were happy to work on.