Our House By Madness 1982

Insert the phrasal verbs from the green box on the right into the gaps in the song below.

Father wears his Sunday best

Mother's tired, she needs a rest
The kids are __playing______ ___up____ downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep (ah)
Brother's got a date to keep, he can't __hang______ __around____

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our
Match these phrasal verbs
taken from the song with the
Our house, it has a crowd
definitions below.
There's always something happening
And it's usually quite loud 1) come between
Our mum she's so house-proud 2) gets up
Nothing ever __slows_______ her __down______ and a mess is not 3) hang around
allowed 4) playing up
5) sees off
Our house, in the middle of our street 6) slows down
Our house, in the middle of our 7) waste away
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our (something tells you that you've got to
move away from it)
Match the definitions below with the
Father __gets______ __up___ late for work phrasal verbs from the song above.
Mother has to iron his shirt
Then she sends the kids to school A) to reduce one’s energy or speed
__Sees_______ them ____off___ with a small kiss (ah)
She's the one they're going to miss in lots of ways B) to pass the day in a happy but
unproductive manner
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our C) to say goodbye at the door or from a
I remember way back then when everything was true and when point of departure
We would have such a very good time, such a fine time
Such a happy time D) to behave badly
And I remember how we'd play, simply ___waste______ the day
__away______ E) to rise from the bed in the morning
Then we'd say nothing would __come_______ _between______ us
Two dreamers F) to wait too much, be late

Father wears his Sunday best G) to separate or cause division

Mother's tired, she needs a rest
The kids are ____playing______ __up______ downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep
Brother's got a date to keep, he can't __hang________
__around______

Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our
Our house, was our castle and our keep
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, that was where we used to sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_9qzM_58E8
Reported speech text
They said they had nothing would come between they