Let's sing : Price Tag by Jessie J.

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I'm teaching my students of Intermedio 1 some lexis related to money and we're discussing the importance of money in today's world. To illustrate this subject, I propose you a catchy song, no other than Price Tag by Jessie J. In this song that everybody was humming not long ago, she points out the over-importance of money in our society and she proposes some other ways of entertaining like music. Her message is quite clear : "forget about the price tag". Money is not the most important thing in our lives. Anyway, if you want to improve your lexis on money, click on the link. 

Now, listen to the song and do the exercises provided. As usual, the answers will be down below. Enjoy it :

1. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words (choose a), b), c), or d)

2. Then, scan the lyrics to find all the words related to money

Jessi J. (Price Tag)

OK.

Coconut man.

Moonheads and pea.

You ready?

Seems like everybody’s got a price,
I wonder how they sleep at (1) _______.
When the (2) _______ comes first,
And the truth comes second,
Just stop, for a minute and
(3) ________
Why is everybody so serious!
Acting so damn (4) ________
You got your shades on your eyes
And your heel so high
That you can’t even have a good time.
Everybody look to their lefts (yeah)
Everybody look to their rights (ha)
Can you feel that (yeah)
We'll pay them with (5) _______ tonight
It’s not about the money, money, money.
We don’t need your money, money, money.
We just wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price tag
Ain’t about the (ha) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching.
Ain't about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling
Wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price tag.
We need to take it back in time,
When music made us all (6) _______!
And it wasn’t low blows and video hoes,
Am I the only one getting (7) _______?
Why is everybody so (8)________?
Money can’t buy us happiness
Can we all (9)______down and enjoy right now
guarantee we’ll be feeling
All right.

Everybody look to their lefts (yeah)
Everybody look to their rights (ha)
Can you feel that (yeah)
We'll pay them with _____ tonight.

(CHORUS)
Yeah yeah
Well, keep the price tag
And take the ____ (10) back
Just give me six strings and a half stack.
And you can keep the cars
Leave me the garage
And all I..
Yes all I need are keys and (11) ________
And guess what, in 30 seconds I’m leaving to Mars
Yes we leaving across these undefeatable odds
Its like this man, you can’t put a price on the life
We do this for the love so we fight and sacrifice every night
So we aint gon stumble and fall never
Waiting to see, a sign of defeat uh uh
So we gon keep everyone moving their (12) ______
So bring back the beat and everybody sing
(CHORUS X2)
Yeah yeah
Oo-oooh
Forget about the price tag.

1. a) Fight                   b) Night                      c) High                       d) Right

2. a) Male                   b) Sale                        c) Shake                      d) Whale

3. a) Smile                  b) Mile                        c) Say hello                 d) While

4. a) Serious                b) Genius                    c) Mysterious              d) Malicious

5. a) Hugs                   b) Love                       c) Mob                        d) Cash

6. a) Blight                 b) Nite                        c) Unique                    d) Unite

7. a) Tried                   b) Tied                      c) Tired                       d) Died

8. a) Obsessed          b) Sexed                     c) Oxen                       d) Obsess

9. a) Low                    b) Slow                       c) Lower                     d) Glow

10. a) Mash                 b) Crash                      c) Cash                       d) Crunch

11. a) Mars                 b) Ghettos                  c) Guitars                    d) Taps

12. a) seeds                 b) Teeth                      c) Beet                        d) Feet

Answers :

1b, 2b, 3a, 4c, 5b, 6d, 7c, 8a, 9b, 10c, 11 c, 12d

Words related to money : price, price tag, sale, cash, money, pay.

P.S. If you want to keep practising your English with songs, click on the links below. Jessie J's Price Tag; The Police's Every Breath You Take; U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Bruno Mar's Don't Give Up; The Cure's Friday I'm In Love; Smash Mouth's I'm A Believer; Michael Bublé's It's A Beautiful Day; songs related to peace; Cold Play's Paradise; Christmas carols; Christmas carols II; Tracy Chapman's Fast Car; Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know; Happy Birthday songs.