Geronimo – Sheppard – Notes

• Activity types: Phonetics, listening for specific words, gap fill, internet search

• Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate

• Language Focus: Tense Review

• Notes: This song is the second single released by the Australian band Sheppard in
February 2014. It reached number one on the Australian singles chart. The title of the song
refers to the famous Apache military leader Geronimo, and the custom of yelling his name
before doing a courageous act.
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Pre-listening activities
Give each student a folded copy of the worksheet and ask them to do Activity 1. They list the
words according to their final vowel sounds.
Key:

/i:/ /ǤǺ/ /æ/ /ǡ:/ /aȚ/

/aȚ/

free boy back man fast around

knees coy hand stand past sound
leap toy gap understand

Note: There is a Phonetic Chart on the Teacher’s Area of www.tuneintoenglish.com

Listening activities
1. Ask students to listen for the words in Activity 1, numbering them in the order they hear
them.

2. Play the song.

Key: 1. back 2. gap 3. hand 4. understand 5. fast 6. past 7. leap 8. boy
9. toy 10. coy 11. stand 12. man 13. sound 14. around 15. free 16. knees

3. Ask them to unfold the page and complete the lyrics (Activity 2) with the words from
Activity 1, according their answers to the previous activity and context.

4. Play the song again. Students check their answers in pairs or in small groups.

5. Correct in open class, play the song again and sing together!

Follow up

Can students find more words in the song with the same final vowel sound?
Ex. /i:/:
/i:/: feel, steal, see,
see, me

Language Focus

For Intermediate students the song can be used to revise tenses. In the song there are
examples of Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present
Perfect.

Internet Research

Ask students to do some research – who was Geronimo and why do people say his name?

This worksheet is to be used for educational purposes only

Activity © Tune into English 2014 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Worksheet written by Prof. Mena Bianco, Naples

Geronimo – Sheppard

Activity 1. List the words below in the correct column according to their final sounds:
around – back – boy – coy – fast – free – gap – hand – knees
leap – man – past – sound – stand – toy – understand

/i:/ /ǤǺ/ /æ/ /ǡ:/ /aȚ/

/aȚ/

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Activity 2. Complete the song with the words from Activity 1.

Can you feel it?

Now it's coming ________
We can steal it
If we bridge this ________
I can see you
Through the curtains of the waterfall
When I lost it
Yeah you held my ________
But I tossed it
Didn't ________
You were waiting
As I dove into the waterfall
So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Say Geronimo
Well we rushed it
Moving way too ________
Then we crushed it
But it's in the ________
We can make this ________
Through the curtains of the waterfall
Well I'm just a ________
With a broken ________
All lost and ________
At the curtains of the waterfall
So it's here I ________
As a broken ________
But I found my friend
At the curtains of the waterfall
Now I'm falling down, through the crashing ______
And you've come to me
At the curtains of the waterfall
And you rush to me and it sets us ________
So I fall to my ________
At the curtains of the waterfall
So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love? (Say Geronimo)
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
(Say Geronimo)
Can you feel my love? (Say Geronimo)
(Make this leap)
Can you feel my love?

So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away

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Activity © Tune into English 2014 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Worksheet written by Prof. Mena Bianco, Naples

Geronimo – Sheppard – Complete

Can you feel it?
Now it's coming back
We can steal it
If we bridge this gap
I can see you
Through the curtains of the waterfall

When I lost it
Yeah you held my hand
But I tossed it
Didn't understand
You were waiting
As I dove into the waterfall

So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Say Geronimo

Well we rushed it
Moving way too fast
Then we crushed it
But it's in the past
We can make this leap
Through the curtains of the waterfall

So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away
Can you feel my love?
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away

Well I'm just a boy

With a broken toy
All lost and coy
At the curtains of the waterfall
So it's here I stand
As a broken man
But I found my friend
At the curtains of the waterfall
Now I'm falling down, through the crashing sound
And you've come around
At the curtains of the waterfall
And you rush to me and it sets us free
So I fall to my knees
At the curtains of the waterfall

So say Geronimo
Say Geronimo (x 6)
Can you feel my love? (Say Geronimo)
Bombs away, bombs away, bombs away (Say Geronimo)
Can you feel my love? (Say Geronimo)
(Make this leap)
Can you feel my love?

This worksheet is to be used for educational purposes only

Activity © Tune into English 2014 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Worksheet written by Prof. Mena Bianco, Naples