1.

Objective: Building vocabulary

2. Activity: Learning English with Taylor
Source: [iSL Collective - English ESL Worksheets\Grammar worksheets\Adjectives\Blank Space]
3. Instructions:
❏ Explain that students will have to complete 6 practice exercises by listening to Blank Space - a
song by Taylor Swift.
❏ The exercises help students to expose with different types of questions in the IELTS Listening test
as they require students to fill in the gap, choose the correct word, match the word with its
meaning, etc.
❏ Students will listen to the song twice.
❏ Before listening, students have 1 minute to scan the worksheet to understand what they are going
to do.
4. Time needed: 25 minutes
5. Materials:
Worksheet: See below
Teacher’s notes: N/A
6. Answers:
Exercise 1:
(1) been (5) game (9) friends
(2) incredible (6) suit (10) see
(3) face (7) magazine (11) passport
(4) mistake (8) funny (12) bad
Exercise 2:
1. forever 4. pain 7. players
2. flames 5. ex-lovers 8. game
3. over 6. insane
Exercise 3:
a. 5 d. 1 g. 6
b. 3 e. 4 h. 2
c. 7 f. 8
Exercise 4:
1. skies 5. month 9. thorns
2. things 6. worst 10. she
3. kisses 7. crying 11. leave
4. king 8. tables 12. nightmare
Exercise 5:
1. g 4. c 7. d
2. e 5. a 8. b
3. h 6. g
Exercise 6:
1. D 3. C 5. A
2. B 4. E
 Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Exercise 1: WRITE THE CORRECT WORD

bad mistake funny see incredible passport

suit been friends magazine game face

Nice to meet you

Where’ve you (1) ___________?
I could show you (2) ___________ things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought oh my god
Look at that (3) ______, you look like my next (4) ________
Love's a (5) ____________, wanna play
New money, (6) ____________ and tie
I can read you like a (7) ___________
Ain't it (8) __________ rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be (9) _________________
I'm dying to (10) ________ how this one ends
Grab your (11) _____________ and my hand
I could make the (12) _______ guys good for a weekend

Exercise 2: CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORD.

1. So it's gonna be freezer/ forever/ freer
2. Or it's gonna go down in blames/fame/ flames
3. You can tell me when it's over/ oval/ overt
4. If the high was worth the pain/ stain/ gain
5. Got a long list of ex-loafers/ex-lovers/ex-liars
6. They'll tell you I'm in pain/ insane/ insight
7. Cause you know I love the players/ plays/ playing
8. And you love the same/fame/game

Exercise 3: NUMBER THE CHORUS IN ORDER 1-8.

a. ______ Got a long list of ex-lovers
b. ______ It'll leave you breathless
c. ______ But I got a blank space baby
d. ______ Cause we're young and we're reckless
e. ______ Or with a nasty scar
f. ______ And I'll write your name
g. ______ They'll tell you I'm insane
h. ______ We'll take this way too far
Exercise 4: WRITE THE CORRECT WORD
worst nightmare leave kisses tables king

she skies month crying thorns things

Cherry lips
Crystal (1) ____________
I could show you incredible (2) ____________
Stolen (3) __________, pretty lies
You're the (4) __________ baby I'm your queen
Find out what you want
Be that girl for a (5) _______________
But the (6) ___________ is yet to come Oh no
Screaming, (7) _____________, perfect storms
I could make all the (8) ______________ turn
Rose garden filled with (9) _______________
Keep you second guessing like oh my god
Who is (10) _______? I get drunk on jealousy
But you'll come back each time you (11) ______
Cause darling I'm a (12) ________ dressed like a daydream

Exercise 5: VOCABULARY MATCH

1. _____ rumor a. not being careful
2. _____ nightmare b. very bad to see, taste, smell, etc…
3. _____ daydream c. mentally crazy
4. _____ insane d. an angry feeling of wanting to have what someone else has
5. _____ reckless e. a very bad dream
6. _____ torture f. gossip
7. _____ jealousy g. to cause severe pain
8. _____ nasty h. to think good thoughts about your life or future while awake
Exercise 6: PICTURE MATCH

1. _____ passport A.

2. _____ scar B.

3. _____ thorns C.

4. _____ suit D.

5. _____ flames E.