Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein (1974): Poems ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)
Transcript: drive, docs, pub Homework: docs, pub
Video HERE

Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein (1974): poems

Video: https://youtu.be/VytiyVUJCIQ

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/_60d4vn

Analyze the Grammar: goo.gl/Gk2315

Suggested Use:

Step 1: Look at the vocabulary. Check any words that you don’t know in your dictionary.

Step 2: Listen to the video. (Listen only.  Don’t look at the poem yet).

Step  3: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet 

Step 4: Watch the video again.  This time look at the poem. Read and listen at the same time.

Step 5: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet again 

Step 6: Listen one last time.  The last time, don’t look at the poem. 

Vocabulary

drink, lazy, rain

Proper Names

Jane

Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein (1974): poems

Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy Jane.
She wants a drink of water,
so she waits and waits and waits and waits and waits

for it to rain. 

Match the missing words to the blanks.  Then watch the video to check your answers

Video: https://youtu.be/VytiyVUJCIQ

Word bank

Jane, rain, waits, water,

Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein 

Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy (1)_____________.

She wants a drink of (2)_____________,

so she waits and waits and waits and waits and (3)_____________

for it to (4)_____________.

Answers:

Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein 

Lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy (1)Jane.

She wants a drink of (2)water,

so she waits and waits and waits and waits and (3)waits

for it to (4)rain. 

Vocabulary

drink - to put liquid into your mouth and swallow it:

Would you like something to drink?

lazy - Someone who does not like working or using any effort:

He's too lazy to make his bed in the morning.

rain - water that falls from the sky in small drops:

It looks like rain.