Learning through music

LONG ROAD TO RUIN, by Foo Fighters
1. Listen to the first part of the song and fill in the gaps with the words in the box:

NEWS   CROSS    SOUND    STRANGER    PLACE   HOME    FLAG

Here now don't make a _______
Say have you heard the _______ today?
One _______ was taken down
To raise another in its ________
A heavy _______ you bear
A stubborn heart remains unchanged
No _________, no life, no love
No __________singing in your name

2. Listen to the 2nd part of the song and fill in the gaps with the words in the box:

 WAIT  SEALED  CHANGE  RUNNING  

Maybe the season
The colours ______ in the valley skies
Dear God I've ________my fate
_______ through hell, heaven can ____

3. Listen to the third part of the song and classify the words in bold according to their pronunciation.

Long road to ruin there in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights
No tomorrow, no dead end in sight

/ƏU/		/aI/

4. Listen to the 4th part of the song and fill in the gaps with prepositions:

Let's say we take this town
No king or queen _____ any state
Get ______ to shut it down
Open the streets and raise the gates
I know one wall ______ scale
I know a field _________ a name
Head _____ without a care
Before it's way too late

(2^nd part again)


Long road to ruin there in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights
No tomorrow, no dead ends

5. Listen to the following part and underline the verbs. Which of them express movement?

For every piece to fall in place
Forever gone without a trace
Your horizon takes its shape
No turning back, don't turn that page

6. Cross out the extra words.

Come now, I'm leaving my bag here tonight
Come now, let's leave it all behind them
Is that the price you have to pay?
Running through hell, my heaven can wait

Long road to ruin there in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights
No tomorrow, no dead ends