"SOMEONE LIKE YOU"

1. Do you know something about Adele? Read this brief biography.

The minute you hear her voice, the hair stands up on the back of your neck and you realize this
is someone special. Shes just 21, but Adele Laurie Blue Adkinsyou can call her simply Adele
sings like a woman three times her age, a soul sensation in her native U.K. Adele attracted the
attention of XL Recordings with her three demos on their MySpace profile and ended up signing
with the label. Since its debut, the album 19, Adele was critically acclaimed and was a sales
success. Adele released her second album 21 on January 24, 2011 in England and Feb. 22 in the
United States. The album was a commercial success and critics, selling 208,000 copies its first
week of sales in the UK premiere first.
2. Listen to the song and write down the ideas that come to your mind.
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3. Complete the first stanza; most of the verbs are in past simple or past
participle.
I ________ that you're _______ _______
That you ________ a girl
And you're _________ now
I _________that your dreams _______ true.
Guess she ______you things
I didn't give to you
Old friend
Why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back
Or hide from the light
4. Complete this part of the song using the words in the box.
Stay, my, turn, fight, face, be, away, out, uninvited,
reminded, over, up.
I hate to ______ ______ ____ of the blue _______
But I couldn't_______ _______, I couldn't _________it.
Id hoped you'd see______ ________ and that you'd _____ ____________

That for me it isn't ________

5. A. Match the phrases to complete the chorus.
1. Never mind

the best for you

too

2. I wish nothing but

I'll find someone

like you

3.

Don't forget me

you said

4. I'll remember

in love

5. Sometimes it
lasts

It hurts instead.

6. But sometimes

I begged

B. In groups, try to translate the chorus, what translation is the best?

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6. Complete the second stanza with the appropriate verb.
You ________ how the time _______
Only yesterday ________ the time of our lives
We ______ _______ and ______
In a summer haze
________ by the surprise
Of our glory days
I hate. (See point 4)
Chorus (See point 5)
7. Complete the stanza so that it rhymes properly, the first letter of each word was
given.
Nothing c________
No worries or c________
Regrets and m_______
They are memories m_______.
Who would have known
How bittersweet this would taste?

8. Read the song again. Do you understand all the vocabulary? Discus the meaning
of the song with your classmates.