Listening and Web Search about Jeff Buckley: A Broken Hallelujah original music by Leonard Cohen
Watch the video and do the following exercises.
Tick the words that you can hear.
I’ve heard their there was a secret chord cardThat David played, and it please pleased the Lord But you don't really care core for music, do you? It goes goose like this The fourth force , the fifth The minor fall foul and the major lift The battle baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Match the beginning and the end of the following lines.
Your faith was strong A but you needed proof
You saw her B to her kitchen chair
Her beauty and C the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you D she drew the Hallelujah
And she broke your E throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips F bathing on the roof
Hallelujah Jeff Buckley, who made "A Broken
Use the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
Baby I have (be) here beforeI know this room and I've (walk) this floorI used to (live) alone before I (know) you I've (see) your flag on the Marble ArchLove is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a (break) Hallelujah Hallelujah
Choose the words that you can hear.
There was a tametimelamelime when you let me nownoknownew What's really goingdoingglowinggrowing on belowBut now you never showsosawshave it to me, do you?EndLandLendAnd remember when I moved in you?And the hollyholyhellohallo dark was moving tooAnd every breath we drawdrewthrowthrew was HallelujahHallelujahUnscramble the lines of the last verse
Hallelujah
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
Was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
And all I've ever learned from love
It's not somebody who's seen the light
Maybe there's a God above
1 .How much did Jeff Buckley’s music resemble that of his father?
They had a lot in common.
His music was totally different from his father’s.
They played the same kind of music.
2. Where did Jeff study music?
In New York
In Columbia
In Los Angeles
In Mississippi
3. How long did he play in his band “Gods and Monsters”?
For a short time
For ages
For ten years
For a long time
4. How was “Grace” received by the public?
It was a failure.
It was a great success.
It was successful at coffee houses.
5. How did he die?
He committed suicide.
He was assassinated.
He took an overdose of drugs.
He drowned by accident.