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Listening Task
This listening activity is based on the famous Everything I Do by Bryan Adams. The lyrics of the song contain many interesting language points, such as the simple present and conditional sentences.
Let’s start with some information about the song!
Everything I Do by Bryan Adams: Song Information
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You is a power ballad performed by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams. This listening task offers some interesting facts about the song and a link to the full lyrics.
Everything I Do by Bryan Adams
Level
Beginner and intermediate students.
Facts about the Song
- Song: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
- Album: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (soundtrack) and Waking Up the Neighbours
- Date of release:
18 June 1991 - Genre: Rock
- Length of the song: 4 minutes and 06 seconds.
- Writer:
Bryan Adams,
Michael Kamen,
Robert John “Mutt” Lange - Produced by: Robert John “Mutt” Lange
Interesting Information about the Song
The song, (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, was a number-one hit on many charts and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams’ most successful song and one of the best-selling singles ever.
The Video
The Lyrics
Language Points
The song includes many interesting language points:
Expressions that may be useful to students:
- Look into my eyes – you will see
What you mean to me.
Search your heart, search your soul
And when you find me there you’ll search no more. - I would give it all, I would sacrifice.
- I’d walk the fire for you
I’d die for you
Listening Comprehension
Sentence Completion Exercise
- Look into my ________, you will see what you mean to me.
- (eyes, heart, soul)
- Don’t tell me it’s not worth ________ for.
- (dying, trying, hiding)
- I would give it all, I would ________.
- (sacrifice, love, fight)
- There’s no love like your love, and no other could give ________ love.
- (more, less, some)
- Everything I do, I do it for ________.
- (myself, you, us)
Listening Activity: Gap-Fill Exercise
The Lyrics of the song contains the following words:
- sacrifice
- eyes
- heart
- soul
- love
- dying
- fight
Gap-Fill Exercise
Complete the sentences using the words from the list below.
- When you look into someone’s ________, you can see their true emotions.
- She poured her ________ into writing that song.
- They had to ________ many things to achieve their dreams.
- He was willing to ________ for what he believed in.
- Their ________ was strong enough to overcome any obstacle.
- He felt like he was ________ for a lost cause.
- The artist put all his ________ into his work.
Source: Wikipedia
Answers to the True or False Task:
- eyes
- trying
- sacrifice
- more
- you
