Learning to Fly - PINK FLOYD

1.

1. Choose words from the box to complete the

gaps. There are extra words which you do
not need to use.

hole hide - forming - fancy - ribbon eyes - fatal - ice - grounded - everything -
stretched grasp - wheeled - hidden - anything - find - bounded soul holding fetched
- reeled

Into the distance, a ___________of black

____________ to the point of no turning back
A flight of _____________on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses _____________
A _____________attraction is holding me fast,
How can I escape this irresistible______________?

Can't keep my ______________ from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ice is _______________on the tips of my wings

Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of ________________
No navigator to _______________my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A ______________in tension -- that's learning to fly
Condition ______________but determined to try

Can't keep my _____________ from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

2. Order the lines.

a) Above the planet on a wing and a prayer, ____
b) Across the clouds I see my shadow fly ____
c) A dream unthreatened by the morning light ____
d) My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air, ____
e) Could blow this soul right through the roof of ____
the night
f) There's no sensation to compare with this ____
g) Suspended animation, a state of bliss ____
h) Out of the corner of my watering eye ____