Listening Skills: Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Understanding key vocabulary 
  • Predicting content
  • Listening for main ideas
  • listening for detail
  • Taking turns in a discussion 

Q1. What do you understand from the name of the song. ‘Wildest Dreams’

Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams

Q2. Listen to a song and fill in the blanks in the lyrics below

He said, “Let’s get out of this town. (1)_______________ out of the city, away from the (2)_______________”
I thought (3)_______________ can’t help me now. Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down

He’s so (4)_______________ and (5)_______________ as hell. He’s so bad but he does it so well
I can see the end as it begins. My one condition (6)_______________

Say you’ll remember me standing in a nice (7)_______________. Staring at the sunset, babe
Red lips and rosy (8)_______________. Say you’ll see me again
Even if it’s just in your wildest dreams, ah-ha. Wildest dreams, ah-ha

I said, “No one has to know what we do”. His hands are in my hair, his (9)_______________ are in my room
And his voice is a (10)_______________ sound. Nothing lasts forever but this is getting good now

He’s so tall and handsome as hell. He’s so bad but he does it so well
And when we’ve had our very last kiss. My last (11)_______________ it is

Say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress. Staring at the sunset, babe
Red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you’ll see me again
Even if it’s just in your wildest dreams, ah-ha. Wildest dreams, ah-ha

You’ll see me in (12)_______________. Tangled up with you all night
Burnin’ it down. Someday when you leave me
I (13)_______________ these memories. Follow you around
You’ll see me in hindsight. (14)_______________ with you all night
Burnin’ it down. Someday when you leave me
I bet these memories. Follow you around

Say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress. Staring at the sunset, babe
Red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you’ll see me again. Even if it’s just (15)_______________

Say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress. Staring at the sunset, babe
Red lips and rosy cheeks. Say you’ll see me again
Even if it’s just in your (Just pretend, just pretend). Wildest dreams, ah-ha
In your wildest dreams, ah-ha. (Even if it’s just in your)
In your wildest dreams, ah-ha. In your wildest dreams, ah-ha

 

 

Answer Q2
  1. Drive
  2. Crowds
  3. Heaven
  4. Tall
  5. Handsome
  6. Is
  7. Dress
  8. Cheeks
  9. Clothes
  10. Familiar
  11. Request
  12. Hindsight
  13. Bet
  14. Tangled up
  15. Pretend

Q3. What does the song talk about? What do you feel after listening to the song? 

Q4. Make the list of all the new words you learnt while listening to the song.

Over to you

  • Write the sentence about the new words you learnt
  • Practise spelling words you have