ENGLISH LISTENING WORKSHEET

2 MEDIO
NAME: ________________________________________

DATE: _________________

PRELISTENING
1. Read this short biography and answer the questions
Every once in a while, an artist comes along whose talent is so undeniable
that it inspires everyone who encounters it. British singer and
songwriter Leona Lewis is such an artist. Her striking beauty, charmingly
down-to-earth personality, and huge, soaring voice has taken over the UK,
where her debut Spirit entered the album chart at Number One and became
Britains fastest-selling debut of all time. Spirits lead-off single Bleeding
Love co-written and produced by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Alias
Tedder claimed the Number One spot for seven weeks, and the album sold
over 1 million copies in the UK in just 5 weeks.
a) How does the article describe Leonas talent? ____________________________________________
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b) Which is Leonas nationality? __________________________________________________________
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c) What does the word songwriter means? ________________________________________________
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d) Write down three adjectives to describe Leona Lewis. ______________________________________
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e) What does UK stand for? _____________________________________________________________
f) Whats the name of her leadoff single? __________________________________________________
g) How many weeks has the single been as the number one? __________________________________
2. Look up the meaning of these words in a dictionary
a) Close off: _____________________
b) Pain: ___________________
c) Enough: _______________________
d) Frozen: ______________________

e)
f)
g)
h)

Pull: ___________________
Piercing: ____________________
Loneliness: ____________________
Truth: ___________________

WHILE LISTENING
3. Complete the lyric with the missing words from the box
See - True - know Say- Twice Keep - Comes - Time - Pain Going Maybe - Pull Bleeding Open
- Everyone Love- By Find Closed off from love
I didn't need the ________________
Once or _________________ was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you _________________ it you're frozen
Ooooh...
But something happened
For the very first ___________________ with you
My heart melted to the ground
Found something _________________
And everyone's looking 'round
Thinking I'm _________________ crazy
Oooh, yahhh

But I don't care what they _________________

I'm in love with you
They try to ________________ me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I _________________ on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep __________________ love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
Oooh, oooh...

4. Order the sequence of the following sentences according to the listening passage
_____ Their piercing sounds fill my ears
_____ Yet I know that their goal
_____ Trying hard not to hear
_____ Try to fill me with doubt
_____ But they talk so loud
_____ Is to keep me from falling
Hey, yeah!
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/leona_lewis/bleeding_love.html ]
But nothing's greater
Than the rush that ____________ with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet ___________________ around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy
Maybe, __________________
But I don't care what they say
I'm in ___________ with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled ________ the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me ________________ and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
And it's draining all of me
Oh they _____________ it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to _______________
I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the pain
That I keep all closed in
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love

POSTLISTENING
5. Responde en espaol estas preguntas
a) Qu piensas de la cancin? Te gusta este estilo de msica? Por qu?
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b) Menciona 5 adjetivos que describan la cancin a tu forma de ver

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c) De qu crees que trata la cancin? En qu situacin crees que se escribi?

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