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The sound of silence (song)
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The sound of silence
by
Simon & Garfunkel
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1. Unscramble the following lines
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Because a vision softly creeping
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�Still remains
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�Hello, darkness, my old friend
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�Within the sound of silence
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�Left its seeds while I was sleeping
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�And the vision
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�I've come to talk with you again
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�That was planted in my brain
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2. Unscramble the letters
In restless�
(smeard
)
�I walked alone
(awronr
)
�streets of cobblestone
(ethabne
)
�the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and
(padm
)
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon
�
(itlgh)
�
That split the
(gniht)
And touched the sound of silence
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3. Put the following verbs in the correct form in the gaps
see�� talk�� speak�� hear�� listen�� write�� share�� dare
�
And in the naked light I
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People
�without
People
�without
People
�songs that voices never
And no one
Disturb the sound of silence
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4. Tick the correct option
"Fulls
Fools
",
said I, "you do not know
Silence like a
dancer
cancer
grows."
"
Hear
Fear
�
my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might
rich
reach
you."
But my words like silent
raindrops
rainbows
fell,
And echoed in the
wells
walls
of silence.
�
�
5. Tick the word that is not heard (one in each line)
�
And
the
people
still
bowed
and
prayed
To
the
neon
light
god
they
made
.
So
And
the
sign
flashed
out
its
warning
In
the
loud
words
that
it
was
forming
.
And
the
signs
said
:"In
the
words
of
the
prophets
Are
now
written
on
the
subway
walls
And
high
tenement
halls
,
And
whispered
at
in
the
sound
of
silence."
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