Listening Skills: Demons’s Song

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, ‘Demons’? Discuss.

Imagine Dragons – Demons (Official Video)

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

When the days are cold And the cards all (1)___________________
And the saints we see Are all made of gold
When your dreams all fail And the ones we (2)___________________
Are the worst of all And the blood’s run (3)___________________
 
I wanna hide the truth I wanna (4)___________________ you
But with the (5)___________________ inside There’s (6)___________________ we can hide
No matter what we breed We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come This is my kingdom come
 
When you feel my heat Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
 
At the (7)___________________ call It’s the last of all
When the lights fade out All the (8)___________________ crawl
So they dug your grave And the (9)___________________
Will come calling out At the mess you’ve made
 
Don’t wanna let you down But I am hell (10)___________________
Oh, this is all for you Don’t wanna hide the truth
No matter what we breed We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come This is my kingdom come
 
When you feel my heat Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
 
They say it’s what you make I say it’s up to (11)___________________
It’s (12)___________________ in my soul I need to let you go
Your eyes, they (13)___________________ so bright I wanna save that light
I can’t (14)___________________ this now Unless you show me how
 
When you feel my heat Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide It’s where my demons hide
Answer Q2
  1. Fold
  2. Hail
  3. Stale
  4. Shelter
  5. Beast
  6. Nowhere
  7. Curtain’s
  8. Sinners
  9. Masquerade
  10. Bound
  11. Fate
  12. Woven
  13. Shine
  14. Escape

Q3. What does the song talk about? What do you feel after listening to the song? Do you agree with its lyrics?

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
  • Try to change them to different forms of speech 
  • Practise spelling words you have