Song exercise - Don't you want me - Human League - prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs

This exercise originally appeared in a post about prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs. I thought I would make it more 'visible' by giving it its own post. If you want to work on recognising the differences between these word classes, the original post is here.

Try to fill the gaps by guessing the answers first. Then you can either listen to the song, or choose the words from those given, in which case click on the two 'Show words'.

To listen to the song click here, and the YouTube video will start in a new tab (window for IE, but you can always right click and new tab) - there's no embedding on this one. As soon as the tab opens come back here to do the exercise. You're probably better writing down the answers and then entering them after the song's finished, rather than trying to type in while listening. The best idea would to print out the exercise first, if possible.

Exercise 1 - Fill the gaps. The missing words are all prepositions, conjunctions or adverbs.

Exercise 2 - Then for each gap you filled, decide which part of speech (word class) your answer is, and enter p for preposition, c for conjunction or a for adverb in the small boxes on the right.

Show words

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	You were working (1) a waitress (2) a cocktail bar
	(3) I met you
	I picked you (4) , I shook you (5) ,
	and turned you (6)
	Turned you (7) someone new
	Now five years later (8)
	you've got the world (9) your feet
	Success has been so easy (10) you
	But don't forget it's me who put you (11) you are now
	And I can put you back (12) too

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	Chorus :
	Don't, don't you want me?
	You know I can't believe it (13) I hear that you won't see me
	Don't, don't you want me?
	You know I don't believe you (14) you say that you don't need me
	It's much (15) late to find
	You think you've changed your mind
	You'd better change it (16) or we will both be sorry
	Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh
	Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oh
	I was working (17) a waitress (18) a cocktail bar
	That much is true
	But even (19) I knew I'd find a much better place
	Either (20) or (21) you
	The five years we have had have been such good times
	I (22) love you
	But now I think it's time I lived my life (23) my own
	I guess it's (24) what I must do
	(Repeat chorus)

Open print-friendly page - If you want to show the words, you'll need to print on two pages. But if you want to do it as a listening without the words, you can print both parts together, in which case you'll probably have to adjust the scale to 90%.