Wonderful World Lesson

WONDERFUL WORLD
1
If we could consider each other, a neighbor, a friend, or a brother.
it would be a wonderful, wonderful world.
It would be a wonderful world.

2
If each little boy had fresh milk each day,
a warm home to live in, and a place to play,
it would be a wonderful, wonderful world.
It would be a wonderful world.


3
If there were no poor and the rich were content,
If strangers were welcome wherever they went
If everyone knew what true brotherhood meant,
it would be a wonderful, wonderful world.
It would be a wonderful world.

4
If each working man had enough time to play,
If each homeless soul had a good place to stay,
it would be a wonderful, wonderful world.
It would be a wonderful world.


5
If all of us heed to what this song does teach,
remember to practice as well as to preach
It could be a wonderful world. Oh yes.
It could be a wonderful world.






1. What phrase in the song means “think about others before thinking about ourselves”? __________________________________________________

2. What phrase means “enough to eat”? ____________________________

3. What word is a synonym for “happy to have enough”? ________________

4. What word means “a shared feeling that everyone can get along with everyone”? _____________________________________________

5. What phrase says we all need some “time off from work”?

6. What do homeless people need? _______________________________

7. What word means “pay attention”? ________________________________

8. What advice do you think “Practice what you preach” means?
(Choose a or b?)
a) I tell you to do one thing but I do another thing.
For example, I tell you NOT to smoke, but I smoke anyway.

b) I tell you to follow my example and do what I say.
For example, I tell you NOT to smoke and I don’t smoke.

9. What words rhyme?
a. other rhymes with __________________
a. day rhymes with __________________
a. content rhymes with _____________ and _________________
a. play rhymes with __________________
a. teach rhymes with __________________

10. This song is about a future wonderful world that would be possible
if people were different and had a more loving attitude.

You write your own sentences.
Past tense in IF clause, WOULD/COULD in main clause.

a. If I could _______________________________ ,
______________________________________________________ .

WERE in the IF clause, WOULD/COULD in the main clause.

b. If I were ________________________________ ,
_______________________________________________________