Watch and understand a song.
Watch, understand, listen to, and learn a song. Answer questions, make hypothesis, work on sounds. This song is part of the musical Mamania and was initially sang by Abba. It is entitled : the Winner Takes it all.
Watch again and understand the song
- Who is the singer?
- ☐ a wife ☐ a lover ☐ a mother ☐ a girlfriend
- How does she sound like? ☐ in love ☐ sad ☐ miserable
☐ delighted ☐ nostalgic ☐ angry ☐ romantic
- Who is she talking to?
☐ a friend ☐ a foe ☐ a lover ☐ a partner ☐ an ex-lover ☐ an ex-enemy
- What is their relationship now? ………………………………………………………….
Match these words in pairs according to their final riming sound:
Make, loser, sad, say, here, fence, all, show, play, understand, fall, decide, shake, winner, victory, plain, small, through, again, ice, tense, same, destiny, fool, self-confidence, friend, name, abide, sense, rules, dear, complain, dice, low, lover, too, say, history, bad.
Listen to the song again and find the best match for the following words:
Winner ☐ ☐ has to fall
Loser ☐ ☐ takes it all
She ☐ ☐ kiss
Lover ☐ ☐ miss you
I ☐ ☐ the game is on again
Answer the questions
- Check your first hypothesis and answer the questions:
- Who is talking?
- How does she feel?
- Who is she speaking to?
- What is their relationship?
- What happened?
Learn the song
Listen again
Now listen again to the song and fill in the blank
- I don’t wanna talk about things we’ve gone…………….,
- Though it’s hurting me, now it’s ……………..
- I’ve played all my cards and that’s what you’ve done ………….,
- Nothing more to say no more ace to ………….
- The winner takes it …………., the loser standing ………….
- Beside the …………., that’s her ………….
- I was in your arms thinking I belonged there,
- I figured it made…………., building me a fence*,
- Building me a home, thinking I’d be strong there,
- But I was a…………., playing by the ………….
- The gods* may throw a dice*, their minds as cold as……,
- And someone way down here loses someone ………….
- The winner takes it all, the loser has to………….,
- It’s simple and it’s …………., why should I ………….
- But tell me, does she kiss like I used to kiss you,
- Does it feel the ………….when she calls your ………….
- Somewhere deep inside you must know I miss you,
- But what can I …………., rules must be obeyed
- The judges will ………….the likes of me abide*,
- Spectators of the ………….always staying ………….
- The game is on…………., a …………. or a………….,
- A big thing or a small, the ………….takes it all
- I don’t wanna talk if it makes you feel ………….
- And I ………….you’ve come to shake my ………….
- I apologize if it makes you feel ………….
- Seeing me so…………., no self- ………….
- The winner takes it ……. . The winner takes it ………
* Vocabulary :
A fence : a barrier or a gate The gods : divinities
Abide : accept
