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Listening Comprehension: Nothing Compares to You by S. O´Connor




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Listening Comprehension: Nothing Compares To You

by Sinead O’Connor

 
Watch the video and answer the following questions about the message of the song.

1. What does the singer feel like?

  happy      depressed          surprised            sad

 

2. What is her routine like nowadays?

She goes to work         She doesn’t sleep at night       She can’t sleep at all       She doesn’t have dinner

 
3. Why doesn’t she want to have a new boyfriend?

Because she can’t stop crying     Because she is ill     Because she only thinks of her ex all the time       Because she is a fool

 
4. What would she like to do?

Plant new flowers in the back yard     Get back her ex           Die            Go to hospital

 
 
 
                                       
                                        
 

Listen to the song again and do the following exercises.

 

                       Which words can you hear?

 

It's been seven  eleven hours and  fifty  fifteen days

Since  Science  you took your love away

I go out every night and sleep all  no day

Since you took you’re your love

Since you been gone  done I can do whatever I want

I can see whomever I  chose  choose

I can eat my dinner in a trendy  fancy restaurant

But nothing

I said nothing can take away these  blues  blows

`Cause nothing compares

Nothing compares to you

 

Write in the words as you listen. The images may help.

 

It's been so without you here

Like a   without a song

Nothing can stop these lonely from falling

Tell me : where did I go wrong

I could my arms around every I see

But they'd only remind me of you

I went to the n' guess what he told me

Guess what he told me

He said you better try to have

No matter what you'll do

But he's a

`Cause nothing compares

Nothing compares to you

 

Unscramble the lines of the last verse.

 

All died when you went away

Nothing compares

But I'm willing to give it another try

In the back yard

Nothing compares to you

All the flowers that you planted, mama

I know that living with you baby was sometimes hard