Ironic - Alanis Morissette

When I had to give a class on negative questions, I thought it would be hard to find songs with this structure, but this one is really good. She actually doesn't use a lot of negative questions, but she uses two common types (Isn't it and Don't you think) and you can easily ask the students, after they listen, to change other sentences into negative questions (eg: Isn't it ironic when it rains on your wedding day?).
Also, after they heard the song and transformed the sentences into negative questions, they talked among them to decide what was the biggest irony from the examples she gave.
Simple activity, but a really nice song!
It can also be a nice song to remind the students of the use of "It's" when the subject is neutral, something that Brazilian students usually have a problem with, since we have our "hidden subject" in Portuguese and our sentences that start with "É".

"Ironic"
Alanis Morissette

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play it Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well, isn't this nice."
And isn't it ironic ... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way
of sneaking up on you when you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way
of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everthing blows up in your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
A little too ironic.. and yeah I really do think...

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
And life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out