This printable ESL/EFL worksheet / interactive quiz uses the dark humor of the famous song Dumb Ways to Die to help learners add new words to their vocabulary for everyday actions and risky situations. Students match ten lines from the song to their illustrations (in the interactive quiz: dragging and dropping the cards on the right). As a follow-up, you can do a guided grammar production task where students say the consequences of each reckless behavior in the illustrations.

Metro Trains Melbourne created Dumb Ways to Die to promote railway safety. The campaign video went viral after its release in November 2012. You can listen to the song here: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw</a>

Recommended level: A2 (pre-intermediate) - B1 (intermediate) 
(The illustrations and music video make the meaning easier to understand, while the teacher can mime some of the more challenging expressions.)

Age group: older teens and adults

Follow-up activities:

Sing-along
After checking the matches, play the song and have students sing along using the illustrations as prompts. Read the pictures from left to right across each row, starting at the top. They follow the order of the lyrics, so students can use them to recall each line as it comes up.

Arranging cutouts
Alternatively, you can also make cutouts from the illustrations, then play the song and ask students to put each one in order as they hear the corresponding line in the song.

Guided grammar production activities
For additional guided grammar speaking/writing practice, students can explain the dangers and turn the captions into warnings using 'Don’t…' or 'You shouldn’t …' 

They can also discuss possible consequences using the first conditional, for example, “If you drive around the boom gates, a train may hit your car.”

Speaking
As another follow-up speaking activity, students can discuss everyday dangers in cities and how to avoid them.

Page 2 contains the answer key. A complementary interactive quiz lets students drag and drop each text card onto its matching illustration.

Part 2 of this worksheet covers the remaining lines of the song:
<a href="https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/actions/dumb-ways-to-die-2-matching-activity/170957" target="_blank">https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/actions/dumb-ways-to-die-2-matching-activity/170957</a>

dumb-ways-to-die-1-matching-activity_170939.docx

This printable ESL/EFL worksheet / interactive quiz uses the dark humor of the famous song Dumb Ways to Die to help learners add new words to their vocabulary for everyday actions and risky situations. Students match ten lines from the song to their illustrations (in the interactive quiz: dragging and dropping the cards on the right). As a follow-up, you can do a guided grammar production task where students say the consequences of each reckless behavior in the illustrations.

Metro Trains Melbourne created Dumb Ways to Die to promote railway safety. The campaign video went viral after its release in November 2012. You can listen to the song here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

Recommended level: A2 (pre-intermediate) - B1 (intermediate) 
(The illustrations and music video make the meaning easier to understand, while the teacher can mime some of the more challenging expressions.)

Age group: older teens and adults

Follow-up activities:

Sing-along
After checking the matches, play the song and have students sing along using the illustrations as prompts. Read the pictures from left to right across each row, starting at the top. They follow the order of the lyrics, so students can use them to recall each line as it comes up.

Arranging cutouts
Alternatively, you can also make cutouts from the illustrations, then play the song and ask students to put each one in order as they hear the corresponding line in the song.

Guided grammar production activities
For additional guided grammar speaking/writing practice, students can explain the dangers and turn the captions into warnings using 'Don’t…' or 'You shouldn’t …' 

They can also discuss possible consequences using the first conditional, for example, “If you drive around the boom gates, a train may hit your car.”

Speaking
As another follow-up speaking activity, students can discuss everyday dangers in cities and how to avoid them.

Page 2 contains the answer key. A complementary interactive quiz lets students drag and drop each text card onto its matching illustration.

Part 2 of this worksheet covers the remaining lines of the song:
https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/vocabulary-practice/pictionary-picture-dictionary-or-picture-matching/actions/dumb-ways-to-die-2-matching-activity/170957

Dumb Ways To Die #1 - Matching Activity

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Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Let's do English ESL guided grammar production. This printable ESL/EFL worksheet / interactive quiz uses the dark humor of the famous song Dumb Ways to Die to h…