Upgrade Your English: 2012

Rolling in the deep

by Adele

1) Put the lyrics in the correct order.

___ Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your shit bare

___ it’s bringing me out the dark

___ reaching a fever pitch,

___ there’s a fire starting in my heart

___Finally I can see your crystal clear

2)Choose the correct option

See how I leave/live with every piece of you

Don’t underestimate the things/thinks that I will do

There’s a fire starting in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch,

And it’s bringing me out the dark.

3)Correct the mistakes in the verses
The stars of your love remind me of us

They keep me telling that we almost had it all

The stars of your love they make me breathless

I can’t help thinking

4) Chorus: Fill in the gaps

We could have had it ______

Rolling in the ________

You had my _________ inside of your hand

And you _________ it to the beat

5) Write the verbs in bracket in the correct tense.

Baby I have no story to be ____________(tell)

But I’ve ____________(hear) one of you

And I’m gonna make your head ___________(burn)

Think of me in the depths of your despair

Making a home down there

It reminds you of the home we___________ (share)
The scars…

Chorus
5)Fill in the gaps

Throw your soul through every open ________

Count your blessings to find what you _______ ______

Turned my ________ into treasured gold

You ________ me back in kind and reap just what you sow

Find in the song a word or a phrase meaning the following.

1) Very easy to understand. ______________________

2) To fail to understand how strong, skilful, intelligent or determined someone, especially a competitor is. ___________

3) A state of very strong emotion. _______________________

4) (A cause of) a feeling of great sadness. __________________

5) To do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something unpleasant to you. ______________________

6) To be grateful for the good things in your life, often to stop yourself becoming too unhappy about the bad things. ______________________

7) Everything that happens to you is a result of your own actions ____________________

Responda:
1. Who is she addressing to in the song?

2. How does she feel? (Account for your answer)

3. Is she heartbroken? Why?

4. Is she annoyed? Why?

5. Does she want revenge?

6. What does these mean?

We could have had it all?

Played it to the beat