Listening Activity

Pre-listening

1. Skim the text (READ IT QUICKLY) and guess the title of the song.
2. Match these words/expressions with their corresponding definitions. Number 1 is done
for you:

a) A falling star 1. Unable to see.

b) To be blind 2. A representation of a place.

c) Shadow 3. A pulsation of the heart.

e) Twilight 4. The time in the morning at

which daylight begins.
f) Map
5. Lacking of light.
g) Heartbeat
6. A star that falls from the sky
h) Dark to the earth
i) Dawn 7. A dark image or shape cast
on a surface.

8. The time of the day when

the sun sets.
While-listening

1. You are going to listen to a song by Florence + The Machine. Choose the correct form
of the verb as you listen to it. Verbs can be either regular or irregular.

A falling star a) FELL (felled/fell) from your heart

And landed in my eyes
I b)_____________ (screamt/screamed) aloud, as it tore through them
And now it's left me blind

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You c)______________ (left/leaved) me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat

I d)_____________ (tryed/tried) to find the sound
But then it stopped and I e)____________ (were/was) in the darkness
So darkness I f)____________ (becomed/became)

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You g)______________ (left/leaved) me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart

I h)_________ (tooked/took) the stars from my eyes and then I i)___________

(made/maked) a map
And j)____________ (new/knew) that somehow I could find my way back
Then I k)________ (heart/heard) your heart beating, you l)_________ (where/were)
in the darkness too
So I m)____________ (staid/stayed) in the darkness with you

The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
After-listening

1. Write the sentences in the song into the negative and the interrogative form.

Positive (+) Negative (-) Interrogative (?)

(S+V in the past+C) (S+did not+V in the (Did+S+V in the present+C)
present+C)
a) A falling star fell from A falling star did not fall Did a falling star fall from
your heart from your heart your heart?