A Day at School Listening exercises

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Budapest by George Ezra

"Thriller", Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson “Thriller”

Cut out the paragraphs and put them in the correct order.

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike

You know it's thriller, thriller night

You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

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They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side

They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial

Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah

All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen

I'll make you see

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'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl

Thriller, thriller night

You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

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It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it

You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes

You're paralyzed

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That this is thriller, thriller night

'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try

Thriller, thriller night

So let me hold you tight and share a

Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

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You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run

You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun

You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!

But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind

You're out of time

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'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try

Thriller, thriller night

So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. Halloween. October 2013.

"This is Halloween", from the Nightmare before Christmas

“This is Halloween”

                  Listen to the halloween song and fill in the blanks with the following words:

1 moon     2 pumpkin     3 king     4 age     5 scared

6 life     7 surprise     8 jump     9 shadow     10 spiders

[Girls]

Boys and girls of every ________

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

_____________ scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

[Boys]

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes and ____________ in my hair

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

In this town, we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[Boys]

In this town, don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next _____________

[Everybody]

Round that corner man, hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

[Girls]

Scream! This is Halloween

Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you __________?

Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice

Ride with the _________ in the dead of night

[Boys]

Everybody scream, everbody scream

[Girls]

In our town of Halloween!

[Boys]

I am the clown with the tear-away face

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

[Girls]

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing through your hair

[Boys]

I am the __________ on the moon at night

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

Tender lumplings everywhere

_______'s no fun without a good scare

[Boys]

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

[Everybody]

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back

And scream like a banshee

Make you _________ out of your skin

This is Halloween, everyone scream

Wont' you please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is _________ of the Pumpkin patch

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[Everybody]

La la la la-la la...

THE END.

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. halloween. October 2013.

"Impossible" - James Arthur

James Arthur - Impossible

sky - promises - love - remember - thinking - caution - 

broken - ahead- say - mistake

I ________________ years ago 


someone told me I should take 


______________ when it comes to love, 
I did... 
And you were strong and I was not 


My illusion, my ________________

I was careless, I forgot 
I did... 


And now when all is done 
there is nothing to ________

You have gone and so effortlessly 


You have won 
you can go ____________ tell them 


Tell them all I know now 


Shout it from the roof tops 


Write it on the ________ line 


All we had is gone now 



Tell them I was happy 


And my heart is ____________ 


All my scars are open 


Tell them what I hoped would be 


Impossible, impossible, Impossible, impossible

Falling out of __________ is hard 


Falling for betrayal is worse 


Broken trust and broken hearts, I know, I know... 


________________ all you need is there 


Building faith on love and words 


Empty _______________ will wear, I know, I know... 


And now when all is done 
there is nothing to say

You have gone and so effortlessly 


You have won 
you can go ahead tell them 


Tell them all I know now 


Shout it from the roof tops 


Write it on the sky line 


All we had is gone now 



Tell them I was happy 


And my heart is broken 


All my scars are open 


Tell them what I hoped would be 


Impossible, impossible, Impossible, impossible 


I remember years ago 


someone told me I should take

caution when it comes to love 
I did... 



Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. September 2013.

"Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons

"Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons

I’m waking up to ash and dust


I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust


I’m 1 in the chemicals

I’m breaking in and shaping up


Then 2 out on the prison bus


This is it the apocalypse

ohohoh

I’m 3 up
I feel it in my bones


Enough to make my system blow

Welcome to the new age,
to the new age


Welcome to the new age,
to the new age

ohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive


Radioactive

ohohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive

Radioactive

I raise my 4 and don my clothes


It’s a revolution I suppose


We’re 5 red to fit 6 in

whoa-oh

I’m 7 in and shaping up


Then checking out on the prison bus


This is it the apocalypse

ohohoh

I’m waking up
I feel it in my 8 


Enough to make my system blow

Welcome to the new age,
to the new age


Welcome to the new age,
to the new age

ohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive


Radioactive

ohohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive

Radioactive

All systems go


9 hasn’t died


Deep in my bones


10 from inside

I’m waking up
I feel it in my bones


Enough to make my systems grow

Welcome to the new age,
to the new age


Welcome to the new age,
to the new age

ohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive


Radioactive

ohohohohohohohoh

I’m radioactive

Radioactive

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. October 2013. 

"Banana pancakes" - Jack Johnson

"Banana Pancakes”, Jack Johnson

love – sleep – wake – don't – raining

pick - easy – time- baby - weekend

Can't you see that it's just __________?

Ain't no need to go outside...

But, baby, you hardly even notice

When I try to show you this

Song is meant to keep you

From doing what you're supposed to.

Waking up too early

Maybe we can __________ in

Make you banana pancakes

Pretend like it's the _______________ now

And we could pretend it all the __________

Can't you see that it's just raining?

There ain't no need to go outside

But just maybe, like a ukulele

Momma made a _________

Really don't mind the practice

'cause you're my little lady

Lady, lady, ________ me

'cause I love to lay here lazy

We could close the curtains

Pretend like there's no world outside

And we could pretend it all the time

Can't you see that it's just raining?

There ain't no need to go outside

Ain't no need, ain't no need, mmm, mmm,

Can't you see, can't you see?

Rain all day, and I ________ mind

But the telephone is singing

Ringing

It's too early

Don't ________ it up

We don't need to

We got everything

We need right here

And everything we need is enough

Just so _________

When the whole world fits inside of your arms

Do we really need to pay attention to the alarm?

Wake up slow, mmm mm, __________ up slow

But, baby, you hardly even notice...

Verónica Tchiengoué. Pancake Day. Listening activity. 2013 

"Big when I was little" - Eliza Doolittle

Eliza Doolittle- Big when I was little

Friday - hair - bike - dancing - Nintendo- door - class - diaries - school - photographs

Can’t believe I’m leaving

Got my boxes by the 1 __________

Sorting trough my memories

Cross legged on the floor

My 2___________ and scrapbooks oh

They seem to take me there

I was always posh spice and

you wore zigzags in your 3 _________

Would you know me know me

If you saw me saw me saw me

Nothing but hopes and living the moment

Where we were meant to be

[Chorus]:

Ooooohhhh

Those days don’t seem so far

When I’m flicking trough my old Polaroid

4 _______________

Me and yoooouuuuuu

You always made me laugh

5 ___________ to cassette tape singles

That was big when I was little

Big when I was little

Big when I was little

Jut like Malcom in the middle

That was big when I was little

Oh this box is haunting me

I can’t throw it away

6 ____________ reports and birthdays cards

Feels like yesterday

Clip on diamantes

Makes me think of 7_________ nights

Leaving after 8_________ with me on the back of your 9______

Would you know me...

Ooooohhhh

Those days don’t seem so far

When I’m flicking trough my old Polaroid

Photographs

Me and yoooouuuuuu

You always made me laugh

Dancing to cassette tape singles

That was big when I was little

Big when I was little

Big when I was little

Jut like Malcom in the middle

That was big when I was little

Big when I was little

Big when I was little

Jut like Nirvana and Lauryn Hill

They were big when I was little

Super 10___________ and club nights at Bagleys

Smirnoff ice open mic nights and Acne

wonder where you ended up

Cos I just can’t thank you enough

Avirex jackets and strawberry ribena

Nike tn’s dreams of Wembley arena

Ooooohhhh ...

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. October 2013.

Ho hey - The Lumineers

Ho Hey! The Lumineers

Love - write - bus - sleeping - life - family.

(Ho!)
(Hey!) (Ho!) (Hey!)

(Ho!) I've been trying to do it right


(Hey!) I've been living a lonely ____________

(Ho!) I've been sleeping here instead

(Hey!) I've been ______________ in my bed,


(Ho!) I've been sleeping in my bed


(Hey!) (Ho!)

(Ho!) So show me _____________


(Hey!) All the blood that I will bleed


(Ho!) I don't know where I belong


(Hey!) I don't know where I went wrong


(Ho!) But I can ____________ a song
(Hey!)

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart


I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet
(Ho!)

(Hey!)
(Ho!)
(Hey!)

(Ho!) I don't think you're right for him


(Hey!) Think of what it might have been if you


(Ho!) Took a ________ to China Town


(Hey!) I'd be standing on Canal
(Ho!)

And Bowery
(Hey!)


(Ho!) And she'd be standing next to me
(Hey!)

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart

_________ we need it now


Let's hope for some


Cause oh, we're bleeding out

I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart


I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweet
(Ho!).

(Hey!)
(Ho!)
(The last one)
(Hey!)

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. September 2013.