KILLING ME SOFTLY (Roberta Flack)

1. Match the words to the definitions and translate the words into your own language:

WORD DEFINITION LETTER NUMBER
1. Crowd a) place which has been mentioned. a

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2. All b) whole of a particular group or thing. b  
3. Eyes c) causing the person or thing to die. c  
4. Fever d) making musical sounds with your voice, usually producing words that fit a tune. d  
5. There e) unpleasant feeling which you have in a part of your body because you have been hurt or are ill. e  
6. Heard f) single unit of language that can be represented in writing or speech. f  
7. Killing g) informing, narrating, saying. g  
8. Letters h) you were aware of a sound because it has reached your ears. h  
9. Pain i) use your eyes in order to recognize things or to look at them. i  
10. Prayed j) … old, adult. j  
11. See k) one of the two organs on the face of a person, animal, or bird that are used for seeing. k  
12. Singing l) your body temperature is higher than usual. l  
13. Telling m) large group of people who have gathered together. m  
14. Words n) message written down on a paper and you send to someone, usually in an envelope and by post. n  
15. Young o) you spoke to the God that you believe in, in order to give thanks or to ask for his help. o  

2. Listen to the song and complete the blanks with the words:

KILLING ME SOFTLY (Roberta Flack)

Strumming my.......... with his fingers

Singing my life with his ..........

Killing me softly with this song

.......... me softly with his song .......... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

I .......... he sang a good song

I heard he had a style

And so I came to ........... him

And listen for a while

And there he was this .......... boy

Stranger to my ..........

Strumming my.......... with his fingers

Singing my life with his ..........

Killing me softly with this song

.......... me softly with his song .......... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

I felt all flushed with ..........

Embarrased by the ..........

I felt he found my ..........

And read each one out loud

I .......... that he would finish

But he just kept right on.

Strumming my.......... with his fingers

Singing my life with his ..........

Killing me softly with this song

.......... me softly with his song .......... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

He sang as if he knew me

In .......... that doubt despair

And then he looked by through me

As if I wasn’t ..........

And he just kept on ..........,

Singing clear and strong.

Strumming my.......... with his fingers

Singing my life with his ..........

Killing me softly with this song

.......... me softly with his song .......... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

Strumming my.......... with his fingers

Singing my life with his ..........

Killing me softly with this song

.......... me softly with his song .......... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

He was strumming my ..........

He was .......... my life

Killing me softly with this song

........... me softly with his song

........... my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song.

 

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