WORKSHEET

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Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948) is an American singer
and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The
Queen of Disco".
Summer is one of the most successful recording
artists of the 1970s. She was the first artist to have
three consecutive double albums hit number one on
the Billboard charts. She also became the first
female artist to have four number-one singles in a
thirteen-month period. Summer's website states that
she has sold more than 130 million records
worldwide. In the year 2008, she recorded a new
disc-Crayons where she experiments with Latin
rhythms.

Did you know about her?

You are going to watch a video-clip of her famous song She works hard for the money. This
song is the eleventh studio album by Donna Summer released in 1983. It was written by Donna
Summer and Michael Omartian, and it is about a humiliated waitress who must go on working
for a living.
After you watch, tick the words which are related:
---tiredness
---responsibility
---hard-work
---selling out
---happiness
---money
---friends

---sacrifice
---power
---injustice
---housework
---patience
---dreams
---work-mates

Does Onetta have a dream?

How many jobs has she got?
Why does she work so hard?

---stealing
---children
---reward
---humiliation
---revenge
---frustration
---tips

Now listen to the song and do the exercises: Complete (there are extra words).
Match.
Put in order.
She works hard for the money
She works hard for the money;
house
So......................for it, honey.
people
She works hard for the ......................
dollars
So, you better treat her right.
money
is
Onetta there in the corner ...................,
jumps
And she wonders where she................
stands
And its strange to her
hard
Some.......................seem to have everything.
Nine AM on...
And shes waiting...
And shes looking...
Just waiting for...

real pretty,
her clientele.
for the bell
the hour hand

Twenty-eight years...
And shes seen...
Of the ones...
They really seem...

to need her there.

have come and gone,
a lot of tears
who come in,

--------That they care

--------For little money just tips for pay.
--------Its a sacrifice working day to day
--------But its worth it all to hear them say,
--------Already knows, these are the good times
--------Already knows, shes seen her bad times
--------Not for a dollar bill
--------Shell never sell out, she never will.

Did you like the song?

Who works hard for the money in your home?
Father? You?

Mother?