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Listening Activity
This listening activity is based on the famous song “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door By Guns N’ Roses”. It is ideal for intermediate students and includes interesting language points such as expressing ability, metaphor, present continuous, and simple present.
Let’s begin with some information about the song!
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door By Guns N’ Roses
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is a song originally written and sung by Bob Dylan, but many artists have covered it, including Guns N’ Roses. This page provides information about the song and links to the lyrics and the official video.
Level
Intermediate students.
Facts about the song
- Song: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Album: Use Your Illusion II
- Date of release: 1991
- Genre: Hard rock, blues rock
- Writer: Bob Dylan
Interesting information about the song
The song describes the collapse of a deputy sheriff; dying from a bullet wound, he tells his wife:
“Mama, take this badge off of me; I can’t use it anymore.”
The video
The lyrics
Language points
The song includes many interesting language points:
Expressions that may be useful to students:
- Mama take this badge from me
- I can’t use it anymore
- It’s getting dark too dark to see
- Mama put my guns in the ground
- I can’t shoot them anymore
- That cold black cloud is comin’ down
Vocabulary Quiz
Complete the following sentences with expressions from the list below:
- too dark to see
- take this badge from me
- get out of life alive
- I can’t use it anymore
- cold black cloud
- knockin’ on Heaven’s door
- put my guns in the ground
Gap-fill Exercise:
- Mama, ______ ______ ______ ______; I can’t shoot them anymore.
- It’s getting dark, ______ ______ ______.
- Mama, ______ ______ ______ ______; I can’t use it anymore.
- Feels like I’m ______ ______ ______ ______.
- That ______ ______ ______ is comin’ down.
Source: Wikipedia
