"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."

Flora Lewis

Somebody To Love - Queen

BEFORE LISTENING TO THE SONG ACTIVITIES

 TASK 1. Look through the words and phrases from the song that may be new for you, see if you understand what they mean:

  • I can bearly stand on my feet - я ледве на ногах стою, мене ледве ноги тримають
  • take a look at yourself - поглянь на себе
  • to do smth to smb - зробити щось із кимось
  • I work till I ache in my bones - я тяжко неймовірно працюю, я працюю до сьомого поту
  • all on my own - сам самісінький, один, як палець
  • hard earned pay - тяжко зароблені гроші
  • tears run down from the eyes - сльози ллються з очей
  • to go crazy - божеволіти
  • to have a lot of water in smb's brain - бути дурним, нерозумним
  • to put smb down - принижувати когось
  • I keep losing my beat - я продовжую втрачати життєву енергію, пульс
  • to get out of the prison cell - вирватись із зв'язниці, камери
  • to face no defeat - не програвати

TASK 2. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps with the missing words

Can _____________ find me ___________________ to love?

Each morning I __________ I die a little
Can barely stand on my ______________
(Take a look at yourself)Take a look in the _______ and _____
Lord what you're doing to me
I have ____ _________ _____ ________ ____________ in believing you
But I just can't get no relief Lord
________________ ooh ___________________
Can _____________ find me ___________________ to love?
I work hard (he works hard) _______________ of my life
I work till I ache my _______________
At the end (at the end of the day)
I take home my hard earned pay all on my own
I get down (down) on my ___________________
And I start to pray (praise the Lord)
'Til the tears run down from my _____________
Lord _______________ ooh ________________ (please)
Can _____________ find me ___________________ to love?
(He wants help)
_________ _____________ - I try and I try and I try -
But _______________ wants to put me down
They say I'm goin' crazy
They say I got a lot of ___________ in my ______________
Got no common sense
I got ______________ left to believe
Yeah - yeah yeah yeah Ooh
________________
Can _____________ find me ___________________ to love?
(________________ find me ___________ to love)
Got no feel I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat (you just keep losing and losing)
I'm OK I'm alright (he's alright, he's alright yeah yeah)
I ain't gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this __________________.
_________________ I'm gonna be free Lord
Find me ____________ to love find me ________________ to love
Find me ____________ to love find me ________________ to love
Find me ____________ to love find me ________________ to love
Find me ____________ to love find me ________________ to love
Find me ____________ to love find me ________________ to love
Somebody somebody somebody somebody somebody
Find me somebody find me somebody to love
Can _____________ find me ___________________ to love?
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me find me find me
Find me somebody to love

Somebody to love
Find me somebody to love...

 

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