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Breathe Easy by Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe




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Lee Ryan and Simon Webbe

Watch the video and do the following exercises.
 
Write in the missing prepositions.

 

say it’s    now, going   a while
you've got it   your head, I aint sleeping my bed
curse me   when I made you cry
come back   my life make it you tonight

 

Unscramble the lines of the Chorus.

 

  I can’t eat, sleep, if you not next to me girl

  did I walk away to find him

  can’t breathe easy

  can’t breathe easy

  tell me why

  holding what should be mine

  baby I’m so sorry

 

Write in the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

 

the way you  (hug) me,  (say) you love me
or call me ‘honey' it gives me butterflies in my tummy
and when you  (touch)me I have to say you never bore me
forever known it, if you need me you know what to call me
when you’re horny shorty
a problem  (come) and I’m to blame
ever since you   (walk) away that's when things change
you was tripping coz I’m always chilling with my crew
you  (say): "I don't have a clue what's going on between me and you"

Write in the missing words. The images may help.


its like a game and ladders baby
driving me and I just don't wanna be your
not even maybe in the past you’ve acted way too shady
now you can see that I’m moving without you coz it’s just ain’t right
and I need someone who was true from the
I know you hear this not fully grow man, it was to act like a  
I fill a with the tears I cry over you and now you know I’m
gonna say good bye my love is through

Chorus

 

Choose the correct words.


I see you looking at me and I   why
coz when we were together you had a wondering eye
looking in all the   places, when you had it at home, now you're
drowning in your sorrows coz I left you
I   to break it to you lightly
put it over so politely, you tried to flip the scripts
and you didn't want to   it and you didn't want to listen all you
wanted to do is talk
well the talk is no good to me, because you never walked the walk

wait how can you say this after all we've been 
you're my  , my boo, to you I stay true
ok I'm not perfect in an all perfect
At   I found someone I can call my girl
I know I was a   and I don’t want to do and I know buying your
jewels won't make it cool
can we kick back, relax up in the flat we have a chat
and   it out like that

Chorus

 


Unscramble the words in brackets.


I wish that I can come and mend your   (bkneor)  heart
and take you  (abkc) to good times right to the start
but right now it feels like we are worlds   (ptraa)  
I need your hands help  (geuid)  me through the dark
if you think about it's practically the same
I forgot my head a  (tieltl) and cause your pain
to be honest I don’t care what your friends gotta say
coz they never really like me in the first  (pcela)
maybe coz the man who treats her bad
or  (eybam) what we have they never had
I think they're jealous of that  (yevr) fact
my baby please forgive me, I want you back
I miss those little  (hsintg) like way you talk
and that little special things like the way you walk
I don't give a damn if this sounds  (eesyhc)  
it’s simple without ya I can't  (ahtebre) easy.

Chorus (x2)

 

Match the beginning and the end of the following lines.


say it’s over now,                          A   when I made you cry

you've got it in your head,             B   I ain’t sleeping in my bed

curse me inside                             C   going for a while

come back into my life                  D   make it up to you tonight