Gloria Gaynor

Can't Take My Eyes off You- By Gloria Gaynor

• Pre-listening activities

Look at the poster.Do you know the singer? Have you ever heard the title of the song?

Discuss the information with your teacher.Who do you think she is singing this song to?

1-Read the definitions and match

Heaven

Stare

Compare

Sight

Hold

• While-listening activities

2-Listen to the first paragraph and choose the right word

You're just too __________to be true
Can't take my ____________off you
You'd be like ____________ to touch
I wanna ____________you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be _________
Can't take my eyes off ____________

3-Listen to the second paragraph and match beginnings and endings

Pardon the way
There's nothing else
The sight of you
There are no words
But if you feel
Please let me know

You are just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes

4-Listen to the chorus and correct the words that are wrong

I love you, friend
and if it's quite ok
I need you, baby
to warm a lonely day
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I talk

5-Listen and put the lines in order

_______ Don't bring me down, I pray
_______ Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay
_______ let me love you
_______ Oh, pretty baby
_______ and let me love you, baby

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like Heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off you

I love you, baby
And if it's quite alright
I need you, baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh, pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay

• Post-listening activities

Complete the chart with the words in the box according to the vowel sound

Her real name is Gloria Fowles. She was born on September 7^th, 1949. With her 1976 release Never Can Say Goodbye, the singer became one of the first-ever dance artists to issue an album aimed primarily for club use

• the ability to see

• In some religions, the place imagined in the sky, where GOD lives.

• to take and keep something in your hand or arms:

• to look for a long time with the eyes wide open, especially when surprised, frightened or thinking.

• to examine or look for the difference between two or more things

hold -true- good - eyes - you - heaven -

leaves me weak

to compare

off you

that I share

left to speak

like I feel

that it's real

to be true

trust- much- pardon - too - can't - good - touch - true -