Now that the heat is definitely here, or so it seems, I think it is a pretty good idea to finish the month of May and combat the sweltering heat by listening to a catchy song, no other than The Way You Are by Bruno Mars. Anyway, listen to this easy-to-understand song and do the exercises I propose.
1. Fill in the lyrics with the appropriate word :
Oh, her _______ (1) , her
________ (1) make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair falls
perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day.
Yeah, I know, I know when I
compliment her, she won't believe me
And it's so, it's so
________ (2) to think that she doesn't see what I see
But every time she asks me do
I look okay?
I say
When I see your face
There's not a thing that I
would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and
stares for a while
'Cause girl, you're amazing
Just the way you are
Her ______ (3) , her _______
(3) , I could kiss them all day if she'd let me
Her laugh her laugh, she
hates but I think it's so ________ (4)
She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day
Oh, you know, you know, you
know I'd never ask you to change
If perfect's what you're
searching for, then just stay the same
So don't even bother _______
(5) if you look okay
You know I'll say
When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would
change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and
stares for a while
'Cause girl, you're amazing
Just the way you are
The way you are
The way you are
Girl, you're amazing
Just the way you are
When I see your face
There's not a thing that I
would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and
stares for a while
'Cause girl, you're amazing
Just the way you are.
Yeah
2. Transform the following sentences in the song into reported speech :
a) But every time she asks me do I look okay? : Begin with she asked me...
b) I say : "when I see your face there's not a thing that I would change, because you are amazing just the way your are." Begin with I told her...
3. Rephrase the following sentence with the words provided in brackets
There's not a thing that I would change
(nothing)
(anything)
4. Decide if the relative pronoun 'that' can be replaced by which and omitted in the sentence : "There's not a thing that I would change."
5. Give possible synonyms for the following words in the song :
a) Compliment :
b) Amazing :
c) Stares :
d) Searching for :
Answers :
Exercise 1:
(1) eyes
(2) sad
(3) lips
(4) sexy
(5) asking
Exercise 2:
a) She asked me if I looked OK.
b) I told her that when I saw her face, there wasn't a thing that I would change, because she was amazing just the way she was.
Exercise 3:
There isn't anything that I would change.
There is nothing that I would change.
Exercise 4 :
The relative pronoun 'that' can be replaced by which but it can also be omitted because it doesn't work as a subject : there's not a thing I would change.
Exercise 5:
a) Praise, say good things about a person
b) : awesome, wonderful, incredible
c) Look deeply or attentively.
d) : Looking for
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This is it. I hope you have enjoyed with this catchy song. If you want to keep improving your English with songs, click on the following links : U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Bruno Mar's Don't Give Up; The Cure's Friday I'm In Love; Smash Mouth's I'm A Believer; Michael Bublé's It's A Beautiful Day; songs related to peace; Cold Play's Paradise; Christmas carols; Christmas carols II; Tracy Chapman's Fast Car; Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know
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