English Exercises: Wide Awake

1-Complete these stanzas with the Simple Past or Past Continuous of the verbs in brackets

Yeah, I (be) in the dark

How (I-read) the stars so wrong?

And now it's clear to me

That everything you see

Ain't always what it seems

Yeah, I (dream) for so long

2 - Choose the correct word to complete the following stanza

I wish I know knew then

What I know knew now

Wouldn't dive in

Wouldn't bow down up

Gravity hurts

You make made it so sweet

Till I wake woke up on

On the concrete

[Chorus]

Falling from cloud nine

Crashing from the high

I'm letting go tonight

I'm falling from cloud nine

3 - Choose the correct word from the box

I'm wide awake

Not losing any

Picked up every

And landed on my

I'm wide awake

Need to complete myself, no

I'm wide awake

Yeah, I am born

of the lion's den

I don't to pretend

And it's too

The story's over now, the

4 - Unjumble the words in brackets and complete

Thunder rumbling

(TLASSC) crumbling

I am (YINGTR) to hold on

God knows that I tried

Seeing the bright (DISE)

But I'm not (LIDNB) anymore

I'm wide awake

5 - How many times does the singer say "I'm wide awake" up to the end of the song? Tick the correct option

twice five times eight times eleven times thirteen times

6 - After listening activity: answer

When it becomes dark, where does she walk through?
She meets a little girl there. When they walk through a hall or mirrow, what happens with the girl's reflection?
What can the singer see in the mirrow? What does it look like
Why does the girl push her using a wheelchair? Where are they?
At the end, why do you think she hits the prince?
In your opinion, why does the say ? "I'm wide awake"?