GREENDAY

"Wake Me Up When September Ends"

1. By reading the title, what do you think the content of the song is?
2. First listen to the song and fill in the gaps. Use the clues provided.
Forgets, come, rests, ends, are, wake, comes, never, when
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September 1.________
like my father's 2._______ to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends
here ._______ the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory !.________
but never forgets what " lost
wake me up when September ends
summer has come and passed
the innocent can #._______ last
wake me up when September ends
ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up $._______ September ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we %._______
as my memory rests
but never &.________ what " lost
wake me up when September ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
'.________ me up when September ends
like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends
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wake me up when September ends
wake me up when September ends
3. What is the tense of the issing ver!s?
". Watch the video on #ou $u!e.
What does the !oy say to the girl at the !eginning of the video?
What does he ean !y these words?
%f you don&t ree!er, read along'
I know this, that i!e is short, the" sa", "o# wake #p one da", on that
da", a "o#r dreams, e$er"thin% "o# wished !or and "o# wanted&&is
%one, '#st ike that()
*eope %et od and, "o# know, thin%s +han%e and sit#ations +han%e and
what I want is '#st& I want this moment, ri%ht now, I want this da"&&
M" !eein%s !or "o#, the wa" "o# ook ri%ht now, the wa" I ook at "o#, I
want this to ast !ore$er()
(. $he girl says I,m ne$er %onna ea$e "o#( and so does the !oy. )e
proises that he is never going to leave her.
*oes he keep his proise in the end?
What e+actly happens in the end?
Why did he do that?
,Use the clues !elow to say what happened-
(oes to war) *oins the army) gets killed) returns safely home) gets
seriously in+ured
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