10B  Song  Where Did Our Love Go?

 a 4 13    Listen to the song. Fill in the blanks with a verb from the list in the correct past simple form.
go (x2) get be come win

  b Listen again and check your answers.

  c Mark the statements T (true) or F (false)

1 The singer is happy. 3 The singer doesn’t love the man now.
2 The singer’s boyfriend wants to leave her. 4 The singer is sad.

Where Did Our Love Go?

Baby, baby
Baby, don’t leave me
Ooh, please don’t leave me
All by myself
Chorus
I’ve got this yearning, burning
Yearning feeling inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

You 1came into my heart

So tenderly d Go through the song with your
With a burning love teacher. Learn the highlighted words
That stings like a bee and phrases.

Now that I surrender

So helplessly Glossary
You now wanna leave baby = a word people sometimes use for a
person they love (also a very young child)
Ooh, you wanna leave me
yearning = a feeling you have when you want
Ooh, baby, baby something very much
Where 2 our love ? burning = very hot, on fire
stings like a bee = a bee is an insect that makes
Ooh, don’t you want me
honey. The sting of a bee hurts a lot.
Don’t you want me no more
surrender = stop fighting
Ooh, baby *wanna = want to (informal)
Baby, baby
forever more = always
won my heart = made me love you
Where 3 our love ?
guy = an informal word for a man
And all your promises
Of a love forever more
Song facts
Chorus
Where Did Our Love Go? was a hit song in 1964. It was
I’ve got this yearning, burning
recorded by The Supremes, a group with three female
Yearning feeling inside me singers. The most famous Supreme was Diana Ross.
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad

Before you 4 my heart

You 5 a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby
Verse 1 repeated

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