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Space Oddity by David Bowie — fill the gaps: a listening comprehension exercise (2)

This is another listening comprehension exercise based on David Bowie’s song Space Oddity. Your task here is easier: you just have to choose the missing words from a list.

The difficulty of this exercise is not much higher than B1 level (intermediate) on the CEFR scale because the words are already provided and also because the vocabulary level is not very advanced.

You can stop the video whenever you like if you need more time to find the missing words.

We have already published a couple of exercises based on this classic song but there’s more to follow. Here are the currently available ones:

A listening comprehension exercise — similar to this one, but you have to fill the gaps on your own instead of choosing from a list.
A text reconstruction exercise — you need to find all the words.

In the near future there will be more tasks, including reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises.

No Ordinary Love — Sade: a listening comprehension exercise

This is a listening comprehension exercise based on Sade’s song, No Ordinary Love. Listen to the song and complete the lyrics by filling the gaps with one word in each gap. Feel free to stop (or even rewind) the video whenever you need to.

The difficulty of this task is about intermediate level (B1 on the CEFR scale).

Earlier we showed another exercise based on this same song: this is a text reconstruction task, where you have enter all the words on your own.

More exercises on this song will be coming later, including vocabulary and reading comprehension tasks, so don’t forget to come back.

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Lou Reed: Perfect Day – a listening comprehension exercise

The Lou Reed song Perfect Day was recorded in 1972 but became really famous only decades later, when it was featured in the film Trainspotting.

Your task is to listen to the song and complete the lyrics. If you can’t find a word, you can ask for a free letter.

The difficulty of this exercise is below B2 level (intermediate).

You’ll find other tasks based on this song here later.

Vocabulary exercises based on the U2 song One: drag, forgive, raise

We’ve had a number of exercises based on the U2 song One earlier, starting with a listening comprehension task, then a reading text on the background of the song, which was more of a vocabulary exercise, then two collocations tasks on the word blame, and a word formation exercise on the word disappoint.

The tasks in this post will help you learn how to use the words drag, forgive and raise.

The difficulty level of these tasks is slightly below B2 level (between intermediate and upper-intermediate).

There will be more vocabulary exercises based on this song.

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen – a gap-fill listening comprehension exercise

Again, a famous song (and also an old one!), but a different task type this time: you only have to enter the missing words, not the whole text of the song. This is not a difficult exercise since Leonard Cohen sings in an easily understandable manner and the song is fairly slow too – it’s around intermediate level, or B1 on the CEFR scale.

As usual, you can ask for hints by clicking on the Give me a letter button – please note that the free letter will be added in the gap where you have your cursor and that you’ll lose points with this option.

There will be other tasks based on this song later, including vocabulary exercises and the usual text reconstruction task type too. We’re also planning a reading text on the background of the song.