Listening Skills Task - The Beatles: Help! - British Invasion Music

Improve your students’ listening skills and help them develop their auditory perception with this range of engaging worksheets! This resource features thought-provoking questions and exercises to help students develop their understanding of a broad range of different musical styles; everything from Jazz, DooWop, Grunge, R&B, Rock and Roll, Gospel and many, many more.

The worksheets come with a range of different listening questions, from multiple-choice, to short statements and those that require longer, more detailed responses. Moreover, every worksheet also has a related “Further Analysis & Discussion” question. Each of these is unique, and an excellent way to build upon knowledge gained and spark further classroom discussion in small groups or with the whole class.

Each listening skills exercise comes with a printable worksheet, a Powerpoint version to use at the front of the classroom, great to share answers and write directly on using Smartboards. A printable Answer Sheet, saving you time with marking. Finally, a Google Slides version, which you can save to your own Drive, and a TpT Easel activity for learners to complete and submit online.

“Help!” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that served as the title song for their film “Help!” (1965). Lennon wrote the lyrics of the song to express his stress after the Beatles’ quick rise to success. "I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for ‘Help’. “Help!” went to number 1 on both the UK and US singles charts in the late summer of 1965.