Target audience (age): Ensino Médio Aim: get more information about World Rock Day and some other events related to music and rock n roll more specifically. Have fun by doing the activities. Duration: 50 min Organization: individual/group work Material: worksheet, videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqzjakxtre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9bnonfkcbi Preparation: make copies of the worksheet, watch the videos previously Information for the teacher: When: July 13 th Celebration: The first World Rock Day was celebrated in 1985. On that day, there were two huge concerts that happened simultaneously in England and USA. These concerts were called Live Aid, and their objective was to call the world s attention to what was happening in Ethiopia, where thousands of people were dying of hunger. All the profit from the concerts was sent to this African country. Also, some artists both in England and USA got together in order to record songs in honor of the African people and to show the world what was happening there. What do people do? There are several ways of celebrating World Rock Day like organizing special concerts, remembering great rock bands and singers and, most of all, listening to a lot of rock n roll. Procedure: Warm up students by talking to them about rock. Ask them what they know about the subject and if they like this kind of music. If possible, show them the videos so they can see and listen to the songs which were composed to raise the world s awareness to the famine in Africa. Hand out the worksheets and explain what they have to do. After they ve finished, check what they did.
1. Read. On July 13 th, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. Continued at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and at other arenas around the world, the 16-hour superconcert was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 nations. In a triumph of technology and good will, the event raised more than $125 million in famine relief for Africa. Live Aid was the brainchild of Bob Geldof, the singer of an Irish rock group called the Boomtown Rats. In 1984, Geldof traveled to Ethiopia after hearing news reports of a horrific famine that had killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and threatened to kill millions more. After returning to London, he called Britain s and Ireland s top pop artists together to record a single to benefit Ethiopian famine relief. Do They Know It s Christmas? was written by Geldof and Ultravox singer Midge Ure and performed by Band Aid, an ensemble that featured Culture Club, Duran Duran, Phil Collins, U2, Wham!, and others. It was the best-selling single in Britain to that date and raised more than $10 million. Do They Know It s Christmas? was also a number 1 hit in the United States and inspired U.S. pop artists to come together and perform We Are the World, a song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. USA for Africa, as the U.S. ensemble was known, featured Jackson, Ritchie, Geldof, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and many others. The single went to the top of the charts and eventually raised $44 million. With the crisis continuing in Ethiopia, and the neighboring Sudan also stricken with famine, Geldof proposed Live Aid, an ambitious global charity concert aimed at raising more funds and increasing awareness of the plight of many Africans. Organized in just 10 weeks, Live Aid was staged on Saturday, July 13, 1985. More than 75 acts performed, including Elton John, M adonna, Santana, Run DMC, Sade, Sting, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, The Who, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. The majority of these artists performed at either Wembley Stadium in London, where a crowd of 70,000 turned out, or at Philadelphia s JFK Stadium, where 100,000 watched. Thirteen satellites beamed a live television broadcast of the event to more than one billion viewers in 110 countries. More than 40 of these nations held telethons for African famine relief during the broadcast. Live Aid eventually raised $127 million in famine relief for African nations, and the publicity it generated encouraged Western nations to make available enough surplus grain to end the immediate hunger crisis in Africa. Geldof was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts. 2. Find expressions in the text that have the meanings below. a) something that alleviates pain or distress (line 3) relief b) suffering from severe hunger (line 3) famine-stricken c) an attitude of kindness (line 6) good will d) an original idea attributed to a person or group (line 7) brainchild e) at risk (line 10) threatened f) a performance of a group of musicians (line 13) ensembled g) something given to help the needy (line 24) charity h) a bad or unfortunate situation (line 25) plight i) superfluous (line 37) surplus (Adapted from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/live-aid-concert. Accessed on June 1 st, 2015)
3. Make a list of the most important information from the text. Justify. (Answers will vary.) 4. Talk to a friend. If you could organize a Live Aid concert today, what would be its main goal? Why? (Answers will vary.) 5. Which bands or artists would be invited? (Answers will vary.) 6. As you saw in the videos, the songs Do they know it s Christmas and We are the world have very powerful lyrics. With a partner, try to write some lines of a song to raise people s awareness to a serious problem the world is facing. (Answers will vary.)
Name: Date: / / 1. Read. On July 13 th, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. Continued at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and at other arenas around the world, the 16-hour superconcert was globally linked by satellite to more than a billion viewers in 110 nations. In a triumph of technology and good will, the event raised more than $125 million in famine relief for Africa. Live Aid was the brainchild of Bob Geldof, the singer of an Irish rock group called the Boomtown Rats. In 1984, Geldof traveled to Ethiopia after hearing news reports of a horrific famine that had killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and threatened to kill millions more. After returning to London, he called Britain s and Ireland s top pop artists together to record a single to benefit Ethiopian famine relief. Do They Know It s Christmas? was written by Geldof and Ultravox singer Midge Ure and performed by Band Aid, an ensemble that featured Culture Club, Duran Duran, Phil Collins, U2, Wham!, and others. It was the best-selling single in Britain to that date and raised more than $10 million. Do They Know It s Christmas? was also a number 1 hit in the United States and inspired U.S. pop artists to come together and perform We Are the World, a song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. USA for Africa, as the U.S. ensemble was known, featured Jackson, Ritchie, Geldof, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and many others. The single went to the top of the charts and eventually raised $44 million. With the crisis continuing in Ethiopia, and the neighboring Sudan also stricken with famine, Geldof proposed Live Aid, an ambitious global charity concert aimed at raising more funds and increasing awareness of the plight of many Africans. Organized in just 10 weeks, Live Aid was staged on Saturday, July 13, 1985. More than 75 acts performed, including Elton John, M adonna, Santana, Run DMC, Sade, Sting, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, The Who, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. The majority of these artists performed at either Wembley Stadium in London, where a crowd of 70,000 turned out, or at Philadelphia s JFK Stadium, where 100,000 watched. Thirteen satellites beamed a live television broadcast of the event to more than one billion viewers in 110 countries. More than 40 of these nations held telethons for African famine relief during the broadcast. Live Aid eventually raised $127 million in famine relief for African nations, and the publicity it generated encouraged Western nations to make available enough surplus grain to end the immediate hunger crisis in Africa. Geldof was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts. 2. Find expressions in the text that have the meanings below. (Adapted from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/live-aid-concert. Accessed on June 1 st, 2015) a) something that alleviates pain or distress (line 3) b) suffering from severe hunger (line 3) c) an attitude of kindness (line 6) d) an original idea attributed to a person or group (line 7) e) at risk (line 10) f) a performance of a group of musicians (line 13) g) something given to help the needy (line 24) h) a bad or unfortunate situation (line 25) i) superfluous (line 37) Photocopiable Student s copy
3. Make a list of the most important information from the text. Justify. 4. Talk to a friend. If you could organize a Live Aid concert today, what would be its main goal? Why? 5. Which bands or artists would be invited? 6. As you saw in the videos, the songs Do they know it s Christmas and We are the world have very powerful lyrics. With a partner, try to write some lines of a song to raise people s awareness to a serious problem the world is facing. Photocopiable Student s copy