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Listening and Web Search: A Broken Hallelujah




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Listening and Web Search about Jeff Buckley: A Broken Hallelujah
original music by Leonard Cohen

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Watch the video and do the following exercises.

Tick the words that you can hear.

I�ve heard��their�� there was a secret���chord��card
That 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

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Use the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.


Baby I have�� (be) here before
I know this room and I've� (walk) this floor
I used to� (live) alone before I� (know) you
I've� (see) your flag on the Marble Arch
Love 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�� when you let me �
What's really�� on below
But now you never�� it to me, do you?
remember when I moved in you?
And the�� dark was moving too
And every breath we�� was Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Unscramble the lines of the last verse

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�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

Search�a link about Jeff Buckley�and tick the correct answers to the following questions.
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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.

����His music was very similar to his father�s.

����They played the same kind of music.

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2. Where did Jeff study music?

����� In New York

����� In Columbia

����� �In Los Angeles

����� In Mississippi

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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

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4. How was �Grace� received by the public?

������� It was a failure.

������� �It was a great success.

������� Nobody was interested in it.

������� �It was successful at coffee houses.

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5. How did he die?

������� �He committed suicide.

������ � He was assassinated.

������� �He took an overdose of drugs.

�������� �He drowned by accident.