Answer the questions given below.
1. Is Los Angeles a city or a town? What is it famous for? What other American cities/towns do you know?
2. Do you live in a city/town/village, etc? How is it like to live there? How do you feel in a big city?
3. Is it true that one may easily win the dreams in big cities? Do you agree with this statement?
4. Is it easy to stand out from the crowd in a big city?
5. How do you understand the following metaphors:
Los Angeles is 'the land of lights'
Los Angeles is 'boulevard of hope and dreams'
LISTENING
There was truth.
There was consequence against you -
A weak defense, then there's me;
I'm seventeen and looking for a fight.
All my life
I was never there;
Just a ghost
Running scared.
Here, our dreams aren't made - they're won.
Lost in the City of Angels;
Down in the comfort of strangers, I...
Found myself in the fire burned hills,
In the land of a billion lights.
Bought my fate
Straight from hell.
Second sight
Has paid off well for a mother, a brother and me.
The silver of a lake at night;
The hills of Hollywood on fire;
A boulevard of hope and dreams;
Streets made of desire.
Lost in the City of Angels;
Down in the comfort of strangers, I...
Found myself in the fire burned hills,
In the land of a billion lights.
I found myself in the fire burned hills,
In the land of a billion lights.
(Of a billion lights, of a billion lights, of a billion lights...)
Angels
Angels
I am home!
Home!
Home!
Home!
Lost in the City of Angels;
Down in the comfort of strangers, I...
Found myself in the fire burned hills,
In the land of a billion lights.
One life, one love - Live!
One life, one love - Live!
One life, one love - Live!
One life, one love -
City Of Angels (Angels)
The City Of Angels (Angels)
The City Of Angels
The City Of Angels
(The City Of Angels)
AFTER LISTENING
Task 1. Look through the song and find the description of the City of Angels according to the author of the song. How do you understand the phrase 'the land of billion lights'?
Task 2. Answer the questions given below.
1. How does the hero of the song feel in Los Angeles? Why? Find the description of his/her feeling in the song.
2. Is the hero of the song successful in Los Angeles? Has s/he won his/her dreams?
3. Does the author feel like home in Los Angeles?
4. How is the mood of the hero of the song changes in the end of the song? Does he sound hopeful? Why/Why not?