Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band Aid 40 Activity types: Vocabulary (synonyms), listening for specific words, numbering, gap fill, discussion Level: Intermediate Grammar Focus: Let + object + base form of the verb Notes: BBC footage of starving children in Ethiopia prompted Bob Geldof to enlist his musician friends to record a charity single

Red Right Hand – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Activity types: listening and matching phrases to pictures Level: Pre-Intermediate / Intermediate Notes: Inspired by a line from John Milton’s 17th Century epic poem Paradise Lost, this is from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 1977 album Let Love In. It was famously used as the theme