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Highway Star by Deep Purple

Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
it's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh it's a killing machine
it's got everything
Like a driving power
big fat tyres everything
I love it and I need it I bleed it
Yeah it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
she stays close on every bend
Ooh she's a killing machine
she's got everything Like a moving mouth,
body control and everything

I Love her, I need her, I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
Alright hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
now that I'm on the road again
Ooh I'm in heaven again
I've got everything
Like a moving ground,
An open road and everything

I love it, I need it, I seed it

Eight cylinders all mine

Alright hold tight I'm a highway star

Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
it's gonna break the speed of sound
Ooh it's a killing machine
it's got everything
Like a driving power
big fat tyres everything

I love it and I need it
I bleed it Yeah
it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star I'm a highway star

 

Exercises
by Mª Isabel Pérez Torres

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Exercises

Before listening to the song:

1.- Write the following words next to each phonetic symbol of the diphthongs:
take, sound, allright, tight, tyres, break, highway, brain, like, mouth, inside, wild, race, ground,

/ai/

/ei/

/au/

2.- Guess which adjectives and sustantives will go together in the song from the following and translate them:

AdjectivesSustantives
wild

moving

moving

killing

driving

machine

mouth

hurricane

power

ground

3.- Do the same with the following verbs and their objects:

VerbsObjects
steal

race

keep

beat

break

have

my head

my car

My girl

it to the ground

her to the end

my car

4.- Complete the table with the past simple and past participle of the previous verbs.

InfinitivePast simplePast participle
steal

race

keep

beat

break

have

  

5.- Listen to the song and fill the blanks with the diphthongs sounds in exercise 1: /ei/ /ai/ /au.
Then listen to it again and complete with the words from the same exercise 1:

take, sound, allright, tight, tyres, break, highway, brain, like, mouth, inside, wild, race, ground,

Nobody gonna ............ my car
I'm gonna .............. it to the ..............
Nobody gonna beat my car
it's gonna ...............the speed of ............
Ooh it's a killing machine
it's got everything
............. a driving power big fat ................everything
I love it and I need it I bleed it
Yeah it's a.............. hurricane .............
hold .............I'm a ...............star

Nobody gonna .............. my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
she stays close on every bend
Ooh she's a killing machine
she's got everything
..............a moving...............,
body control and everything

I Love her, I need her, I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
.............hold ..............I'm a ..............star

Nobody gonna ................my head
I got speed ...............my ..............
Nobody gonna steal my head
now that I'm on the road again
Ooh I'm in heaven again
I've got everything
..............a moving..............,
An open road and everything

I love it, I need it, I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
..............hold.............I'm a ..............star

Nobody gonna ............... my car
I'm gonna............... it to the ...............
Nobody gonna beat my car
it's gonna ...............the speed of ................
Ooh it's a killing machine
it's got everything
............... a driving power big fat ...............everything
I love it and I need it I bleed it
Yeah it's a ..............hurricane
.............. hold ...............I'm a ................star
I'm a ..............star I'm a ..................star

6.- Compare your guesses in Exercises 2 and 3 and the phrases in the song.

7.- Make passive sentences from the following active ones:

  1. Nobody gonna take my car
  2. It’s gonna break the speed of sound

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