Improve your listening skills through music 3
Level: Medium
Learning English through music is not only fun, it is very effective for improving your listening skills.
Play the video below and as you listen to the words (lyrics), complete the gap fill with the words you hear. When you are finished, click ‘Show answer’ to check your answers.
NOTE: There is only ONE word required for each answer.
(Intro)
I close my eyes when I get too 1. Show answersad
I think thoughts that I know are 2.Show answerbad
Close my 3. and I count to ten Show answereyes
Hope it’s 4. when I open them Show answerover
I want the things that I had 5. Show answerbefore
Like a Star Wars poster on my 6. door Show answerbedroom
I wish I could 7. to ten Show answercount
Make everything be 8. again Show answerwonderful
Hope my mom and I hope my 9. Show answerDad
Will figure out why they get so 10. Show answermad
Hear them scream, I hear them 11. Show answerfight
They say bad words that make me wanna 12. Show answercry
Close my eyes when I go to 13. Show answerbed
And I dream of angels who make me 14. Show answersmile
I feel better when I 15. them say Show answerhear
16. will be wonderful someday Show answereverything
Chorus:
17. mean everything when you’re little Show answerPromises
And the world’s so 18. Show answerbig
I just don’t 19. how Show answerunderstand
You can smile with all those 20. in your eyes Show answertears
Tell me everything is wonderful now
Please 21. tell me everything is wonderful now Show answerdon’t
I go to school and I run and 22. Show answerplay
I tell the 23. that it’s all okay Show answerkids
I laugh aloud so my 24. won’t know Show answerfriends
When the 25. rings I just don’t wanna go home Show answerbell
Go to my 26. and I close my eye Show answerroom
I make 27. that I have a new life Show answerbelieve
I don’t believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful 28. Show answersomeday
(Chorus)
No
No, I don’t wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don’t wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don’t wanna hear you say
You both have grown in a 29. way Show answerdifferent
No, no, no, no
I don’t wanna meet your 30. Show answerfriends
And I don’t wanna 31. over again Show answerstart
I just want my 32. to be the same Show answerlife
Just like it used to be
Some days I hate 33. Show answereverything
I hate everything
34. and everything Show answereveryone
Please don’t tell me everything is wonderful now…
I don’t wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now