Country Roads Songsheet

Activity 1. - Work in pairs. Ask your partner “How do you pronounce this?
” and then put the

words below in the correct column according to their “s” sound [s] [z] [iz]. Practice the pronunciation
several times with your partner.
trees - bees - monkeys - donkeys - keys - days - mountains - teardrops

- knees - memories - peas - seas - mills - hills - fountains - roads -
almost - west - toast - East - place - face - race - fox - box - it’s -
he’s - she’s - eyes - voice - calls - eats - washes - watches - finishes
- reads - writes - reminds - takes - makes - eighties (80’s) - sixties (60’s)
- actress - lioness - princess - tigress - kindness - loneliness - homeless - hopeless
[s] [z] [iz]
Activity 2. - Listen to your teacher and check your answers together. Repeat several times.
Activity 3. - Listen to the song and check () words you hear from the song in activity 1.
Activity 4. - Listen to the song again and complete the gaps with the words you hear. Be careful some
words do not have “s” sound.
Take me home, country roads
________________ heaven, _____________ Virginia, Miner's lady, stranger to blue water

Blue ridge ______________________, Shenandoah river, Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Life is old there, older than the ________________, Misty taste of moonshine,
Younger than the ________________, ________________ in my __________
blowing like a breeze
Repeat chorus
CHORUS
I hear her ____________ in the morning hour she
_________________________ ___________________, ___________ me
____________ me home Radio _______________ me of my home far away
To the __________________ I belong, Driving down the ______________ I get a feeling
_____________ Virginia, That I should have been home yesterday,
________________ mamma, yesterday
___________ me home
Country road Repeat chorus x2
All my ______________, gather round her Take me home, that country road
Take me home, that country road
Activity 5. - Work in groups of three and ask the following question:

 Do you like living in a city or countryside? Explain your reasons.
 Activity types: Phonetics, gap fill, discussion
 Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate
 Language Focus: “s” sounds
 Notes: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver,
and initially recorded by John Denver. It was included on his 1971 breakout album Poems, Prayers and
Promises; the single went to number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, topped only by "How Can You
Mend a Broken Heart" by The Bee Gees. It became one of John Denver's most popular and world-wide
beloved songs, and is still very popular around the world, considered to be John Denver's own
signature song. It also has a prominent status as an iconic symbol of West Virginia; for example, it was
played at the funeral memorial for U.S. Senator Robert Byrd in July 2010. "Take Me Home, Country
Roads" received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians. The song is the theme song of West
Virginia University and has been performed at every home football pre-game show since 1972. The
popularity of the song has inspired resolutions in the West Virginia Legislature to change the state
song of West Virginia to "Take Me Home, Country Roads". On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia
Legislature approved a resolution to make Take Me Home, Country Roads the official state song of
West Virginia. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed the resolution into law on March 8.
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Pre-listening activities
1. Give each student a folded copy of the worksheet and ask them to do Activity 1. They have
to work in pairs and ask his/her partner “How do you pronounce this?” and then they have to
put the words in the box in the correct column according to their “s” sound [s] [z] [iz]. Then the
have to practice the pronunciation several times with their partner.
Key:
[s] [z] [iz]
almost - takes - makes trees - bees - monkeys - Memories - washes
writes - west - toast - East - place - donkeys - keys - days - - watches - finishes
face - race - kindness - loneliness - mountains - knees mills - hills eighties (80’s) -
teardrops - actress - voice - it’s - fountains - roads sixties (60’s)
lioness - princess - tigress homeless seas peas eyes calls reads
- hopeless eats - fox - box reminds she’s he’s
2. Pronounce each word clearly while the students listen up and check their answers in pairs, and
then make them repeat the words several times.
3. Play the song and ask the students to listen to it and check () words that they hear from in
activity 1.
Listening activities
1. Ask the students to listen to the song and complete the gaps with the words in Activity 1. Tell
them to pay attention to the “s” sounds.
2. Play the song. Then sing it aloud together several times.
Follow up
Ask the students to work in groups of three and answer the question:
Take me home, country roads
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue RIDGE MOUNTAIN, SHENANDOAH RIVER,
Life is old there, older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home

To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma, take me home
Country roads
All my memories, gather round her

Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

West Virginia,
To the country roads
I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me

Radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

West Virginia,
Country roads

West Virginia,
To the country roads


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Activity 1. - Work in pairs. Ask your partner “How do you pronounce this?

” and then put the

trees - bees - monkeys - donkeys - keys - days - mountains - teardrops

[s] [z] [iz]

Take me home, country roads

____ heaven, _ Virginia, Miner's lady, stranger to blue water

Activity 5. - Work in groups of three and ask the following question:

2. Play the song. Then sing it aloud together several times.

Country roads, take me home

All my memories, gather round her

Country roads, take me home

I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me

Country roads, take me home

Country roads, take me home

Take me home, that country road

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