Yesterday, by The Beatles

Pre-listening activities:

1-Look at the pictures: Do you know this band? Have you ever listened to this song? What do you think the author talks about in this song? Is it a love song?

2-Read the definitions and match:

trouble

shadow

hide away

long for

While-listening activities:

A- Listen to the song and choose the right verb :

Yesterday
all my trouble 1-_______________ (seemed/lived) so far away
Now it looks as though they `re here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday

Suddenly , I`m not half the man I 2-____________(liked/used) to be
there`s a shadow hanging over me
Oh yesterday 3-___________ ( came/ flew) suddenly

Why she 4-__________ (had/wanted ) to go I don`t know
she wouldn`t say
I 5- ____________ (said/made) something wrong
Now I long for yesterday

B- Listen and put these lines in order:

___________ Now I long for yesterday

___________ She wouldn't say

___________ Now I need a place to hide away
___________ I said something wrong
___________ Why she had to go I don't know

___________ Yesterday love was such an easy game to play

___________ Oh I believe in yesterday

C_ Match beginnings and endings

Yesterday

Love was in yesterday
Now I need such an easy game to play
Oh, I believe a place to hide away
Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm............

Post-Activity:

1- Now classify verbs into regulars and irregulars

Regular		Irregular
Infinitive	Past	Infinitive	Past

• an area of darkness, caused by light being blocked by something

• to put yourself somewhere where you cannot be seen or found

• long for sth; to want something very much

• problems or difficulties:

The Beatles were formed in Liverpool 1959 as the Quarrymen. The name was later changed to the Silver Beatles and then the Beatles. The original group comprised John Lennon ,Paul McCartney , George Harrison , Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. The Beatles first single was the Lennon and McCartney penned 'Love Me Do'

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