Le Monde School.

English Department.
Teacher Patricia Wojtyla

Listening Worksheet 1st Senior

Name:__________________________ Date:_________________

1. – Fill the blanks with the words from the box.

alive, dollars, face, feel, find, hard, kills, lately, life, line, make,
right, river, signs, sleep, sold, stars, take, vine, word, wrong, young,

________, I've been, I've been losing _______

Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying _________,
Said, no more counting _______
We'll be counting _________, yeah we'll be counting _______

I see this ______ like a swinging ______

Swing my heart across the ______________
And my________ is flashing ______
Seek it out and you shall _______

Old, but I'm not that old

______, but I'm not that bold
I don't think the world is _____
I'm just doing what we're told

I feel something so ______

Doing the ________thing
I feel something so _______
Doing the ________ thing
I couldn't lie, coudn't lie, couldn't lie

Everything that _______ me makes me feel _________

2. – Match the phrases on the left to the corresponding part on the right to form the
phrase

a) I fell the love ___watch it burn

b) Down this river ___ But I´m not that bold
c) Hope is a four-letter ___ I´m just doing what we´re told

d) Make that money, ___ and I feel it burn

e) Old, ___word
f) Young,
g) I don´t think the world is sold ___every turn

___ But I´m not that old

3.– Match the adjectives and the nouns.

1. swinging a. stars

2. four-letter b. vine

3. flashing c. word

4. counting d. signs

4.– Translate the following sentences:

I couldn't lie, coudn't lie, couldn't lie _________________________

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive _________________________

I couldn't lie, coudn't lie, couldn't lie _________________________

Everything that downs me makes me wanna fly________________________

Take that money _________________________

Watch it burn _________________________
Sink in the river _________________________
The lessons are learned _________________________

5.–Find 3 examples of the following words in the song:

Present simple: __________ ____________ ___________

Present continuous: __________ ____________ ___________
Present perfect continuous:_________ ____________ ___________
Infinitive: __________ ____________ ___________

Modal verbs: __________ ____________ ___________

Adjectives: __________ ____________ ___________

6.–What do you think is the meaning of the song. Why has he not been able to sleep
lately? Does it have to do with money, love, society?

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