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The song lyrics discuss feelings of loneliness, uncertainty, and searching for meaning or purpose. The singer says he has been losing sleep and dreaming of what could be, and has been praying for clarity. He sees opportunities represented by counting stars and flashing signs, and believes seeking them out will lead to finding answers. However, he acknowledges being both young yet not bold. The lyrics seem to discuss struggling with one's place in the world and society while just trying to "do what we're told." It references both the love of another person and money, watching the latter burn as hope is described as a "four-letter word." The meaning appears to center around feelings of doubt, longing for connection or answers, and questioning one's

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Counting Stars

The song lyrics discuss feelings of loneliness, uncertainty, and searching for meaning or purpose. The singer says he has been losing sleep and dreaming of what could be, and has been praying for clarity. He sees opportunities represented by counting stars and flashing signs, and believes seeking them out will lead to finding answers. However, he acknowledges being both young yet not bold. The lyrics seem to discuss struggling with one's place in the world and society while just trying to "do what we're told." It references both the love of another person and money, watching the latter burn as hope is described as a "four-letter word." The meaning appears to center around feelings of doubt, longing for connection or answers, and questioning one's

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COUNTING STARS

One Republic
1. Fill the blanks with the words from the box.
alive, dollars, face, feel, find, hard, kills, lately, life,line, make, right, river, signs, sleep, sold, stars, take,
vine, word, wrong, young,
________, I've been, I've been losing _______
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying _________,
Said, no more counting _______
We'll be counting _________, yeah we'll be counting _______
I see this ______ like a swinging ______
Swing my heart across the ________
And my _________ is flashing ______
Seek it out and you shall _______
Old, but I'm not that old
_______, but I'm not that bold
I don't think the world is _____
I'm just doing what we're told
I feel something so ______
Doing the _____ thing
I feel something so _______
Doing the ________ thing
I couldn't lie, coudn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that _______ me makes me feel _________

I ________ the love and I feel it burn


Down this ______, every turn
Hope is a four-letter ________
_______ that money, watch it burn
2. Match the adjectives and the nouns. Translate them.

1. swinging
2. four-letter
3. Flashing
4. counting

a. stars
b. vine
c. word
d. signs

3. Find a synonym or antonym of the following words:


deceive (v)

dead (adj)

courageous (adj)

4. Find some examples of the following verb tenses in the song:


Present simple, Present continuous, Present perfect continuous, Future continuos, Infinitive, Imperative, Present
simple in passive voice

6.Discuss about the meaning of the song: Why has he not been able to sleep lately?
Does the song have to do with money, love, society?

COUNT ON ME
Bruno Mars
1. Listen to the song and match the halves. The sentences in brackets () have no matches.

1. If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea

a. I'll be the light to guide you

2. If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't
see

b. When we are called to help our friends in


need

3. Find out what we're made of

c. I'll sing a song beside you

4. You can count on me like one, two, three,

d. I'll be there

(And I know when I need it)

()

5. I can count on you like four, three, two, and

e. I'll sail the world to find you

('Cause that's what friends are supposed to do,)

()

6. If you're tossin' and you're turnin' and you just can't fall
asleep

f. You'll be there
g. Everyday I will remind you

7. And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me

2. Macth the words and the definitions:

1. To be stuck

a. To be unable to sleep

2. To find out

b. To discover something

3. Toss and turn

c. To expect that someone will do something for


you

4. To count on someone
d. To be trapped and unable to move.

3.Translate the final verse of the song:


2

You'll always have my shoulder when you cry


I'll never let go, never say goodbye
You know you can count on me like one, two,
three, I'll be there
And I know when I need it
I can count on you like four, three, two, and
you'll be there
'Cause that's what friends are supposed to do

oh yeah
oooooh ooooooh
You can count on me 'cause I can count on you...

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