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Highway Star by Deep Purple Nobody
gonna take my car Nobody gonna take my girl I Love her,
I need her, I seed her Nobody gonna take my head 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 love
it and I need it |
Music link to Radio Blog
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:
Adjectives | Sustantives |
wild moving moving killing driving | machine mouth hurricane power ground |
3.- Do the same with the following verbs and their objects:
Verbs | Objects |
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.
Infinitive | Past simple | Past 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:
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