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YOUR SONG by Elton John

TASK 1: LISTENING

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the missing words:

It's a little bit ______ this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily ______
I don't have much ________ but boy if I did
I'd _______ a big house where we both ______ live

If I was a _______, but then again, no
Or a man who makes ________ in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the _______ I can do
My gift is my ________ and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your ________
It may be quite __________ but now that it's done
I hope you don't _______
I hope you don't ________ that I put down in _______
How wonderful life is while you're in the _________

I ________ on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the ________ well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite _______ while I wrote this ________
It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've __________ if they're green or they're _______
Anyway the thing is what I really mean
Yours are the __________ eyes I've ever seen

 

TASK 2: VOCABULARY
Find words or expression in the text with the same meaning.

1.      (Stanza 1) you and me:

2.      (Stanza 2) present:

3.      (Chorus) marvelous:

4.      (Stanza 3) angry:

5.      (Stanza 4) want to say:

TASK 3: GRAMMAR

Find instances of the following verb tenses:

Present Simple:
Conditional type 2:
Present Perfect:

TASK 4: PRONUNCIATION
Find words in the song that have the following vowel sounds. One example is provided for each vowel sound:

/I/: gift,
/aI/: like,
/oʊ/: know
/i/: people


TASK 5: PRONUNCIATION
Find words in the song that have the following consonant sounds. One example is provided for each consonant sound:

/z/: those,
/s/: cross,
/ð/: the,
/θ/: think,

TASK 5: Comprehension
Explain, in your own words, what the song is about.

 Trabajo realizado por Carmina Fallada Pouget