MARLETH LAGUNA BURBOA

1B SONG Our House

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 isten to the song and write the
Our House missing words 1–10. Use the
clues in parentheses to help you.
Father wears his 1 Sunday best (a day of the week)
Mother’s 2 tired she needs a rest (adjective)   b R
 ead the lyrics with the glossary
The kids are playing up 3 downstairs (part of the house) and answer the questions.
Sister’s sighing in her sleep 1 Do you think the singer’s Positive
4 Brother ’s got a date to keep (member of the family) memories
memory of his home is positive about his
He can’t hang around or negative? chilwood,
because he say
in the letter of
Chorus 2 Which of these adjectives the song that
Our house, in the middle of our street would you use to describe his he remember
that they has a
Our house, in the middle of our…
house? Check (✓) the boxes. very good
times, happy
Our house it has a crowd busy    times, and they
played all day.
There’s 5 always something happening (adverb of frequency) quiet   
And it’s usually quite loud clean   
Our 6 mum she’s so house-proud (member of the
messy   
family, colloquial)
Nothing ever slows her down and a mess is not allowed
crowded   
traditional
Chorus

Our house, in the middle of our street

(Something tells you that you’ve got to move away from it) Glossary
Sunday best = best clothes
Father gets up 7 late for work (adverb of time)
playing up = behaving badly
Mother has to iron his 8 shirt (something you wear) sighing = making a sad sound
Then she sends the kids to 9 school (a place) has got a date = has a meeting (with a girl)
Sees them off with a small kiss hang around = stay somewhere for a
She’s the one they’re going to miss in lots of ways long time
house-proud = spending a lot of time
Chorus keeping a house clean and neat
you’ve got to = you have to
I remember way back then when everything was true and when
We would have such a very good time
Such a fine time Song facts
Such a 10 happy time (adjective) Our House was British group Madness’s biggest
And I remember how we’d play, simply waste the day away international hit. In the summer of 2012, 20
years after they first recorded it, the song
Then we’d say nothing would come between us two dreamers
became popular with a new generation of
Repeat first verse music fans: Madness sang the song to an
international audience at the closing ceremony
Chorus
of the London 2012 Olympics.
Our house, was our castle and our keep
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, that was where we used to sleep
Our house, in the middle of our street (to fade)

218 American English File 2nd edition Teacher’s Book 3 Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2014

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