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Guns n Roses listening exercise
Downloadable worksheets:
in the ghetto
Level:
intermediate
Age:
14-100
Downloads:
8
THe Media -- TELTHe Media -- TELEVISIO" - Listening test for Intermediate/ Upper Intermediate students
Level:
intermediate
Age:
12-17
Downloads:
1641
Physical description listening
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-17
Downloads:
1116
Shopping + Teenagers� opinions on fashion - Listening TEST for Intermediate Students
Level:
intermediate
Age:
12-17
Downloads:
1042
Valentine�s Day - Listening activities (video from youtube)
Level:
elementary
Age:
10-17
Downloads:
1016
A 13-year-old boy�s life: Listening Comprehension Test
Level:
elementary
Age:
9-12
Downloads:
942
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Listen and Read, then listen again , while completing the exercises below:
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COMPLETE
Take me down to the paradise
Where the grass is
And the girls are
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)
2. CHOOSE
.
Just an urchin livin' under the
heat
feet
street
I'm a�
hard case
tough case
hard race
that's tough to beat
I'm your charity case
So buy me somethin'
nice
to eat
to go
I'll pay you at another time
take it to the end of the line
I will be just fine
take it past its prime
Rags to riches
Or so they say
You gotta
Keep pushin' for the fortune and fame
You know it's, it's all a gamble
When it's just a game
You treat it like a capitol crime
Everybody' doin' their time
CHORUS x2
Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber
What is this here
Why is it square
Why am i here
, I can't quite remember
The surgoen general say's it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another
cigar
cigarette
drink
But I can't see
Tell me that you're gonna believe
CHORUS x2
So far away x4
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3. COMPLETE, USING THE PICTURES AS CLUES
Capitain
's
been torn apart���������������������� Now he's a
clown
court jester
lord nestor
With a broken
���������������������������������������������� He said turn me around
And take me back to the start�������������������������������������������������� I must be losing my
brain
mind
"Are you
?!"����
�������������������������������������������������������� I've seen it all a�
times��
1,000,000
CHORUS x4VO
I want to go
I want to know
Oh, won't you please take me home
I want to see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home
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4. CHOOSE THE SENTENCE WITH THE CLOSEST MEANING (GREEK PUPILS CAN READ THE TRANSLATION FIRST
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urchin������������������������������������� (������������ �����)�
a creature that lives in the sea
mischievious child
a kind of food
hard case���������������������������������(������� ��������/���������)
unhappy
tough and unyielding
a type of bag
charity case���������������������������� (��������� �����������)
a good person
a person who needs help (money, food, clothes)
a type of bag
the end of the line������������������ (�������� �����)
a definite end to any situation
a long rope
something to fish with
Rags to riches������������������������� (��� �� �������� ����� ��������)
a type of clothes
going from very poor to very rich
doin' their time������������������������ (����� ��� ������)
looking at the clock
a type of dance
spending some time in a jail or prison
hazardous�������������������������������� (�����������)
difficult
dangerous
wrong
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NOW LISTEN AGAIN AND ENJOY!
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