Music Your English | Learn English Through Songs

Activity 1

Verse 1

Click an emoji to place it in the next gap, or drag it to a specific gap while you listen.

He said, ‘Son, have you seen the?’

Well, what would you say if I said that you could?

‘Just carry this, you'll even get paid’

I said, ‘That sounds pretty good’

Black leather

Spit-shined so bright

They cut off mybut it looked alright

We marched and we sang

We all became

As we learned how to fight

Activity 2

Chorus

Unscramble the letters shown in each gap and type the correct word.

A of war

Yeah, that's what I'll be

And when I come

They'll be damn of me

I'll carry this

To the if I must

'Cause it's a flag that I love

And a flag that I

Activity 3

Verse 2

Type the correct past form of each verb. Use the base forms in the chart to help you. One verb is used twice.

Verbs in their base form

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I in the door

I my commands

The children, they

But I my man

We him away

A bag over his face

From his family and his friends

They off his clothes

They in his hands

I them to stop

But then I in

We him with guns

And batons not just once

But again and again

Activity 4

Verse 3

Select the pronoun or adjective form you hear in the song.

walked through bullets and haze

I asked to stop

I begged to stay

But pressed on

So I lifted gun

And fired away

And the shells jumped through the smoke

And into the sand

That the blood now had soaked

collapsed with a flag in hand

A flag white as snow

Activity 5

Final Chorus

Rearrange the highlighted words or sentence parts within each lyric line.

A hero of war

Is

Just medals and scars

So damn

And I

Now it gathers dust

But it's a

It's the only flag I trust

Hero of War

Warm-up Questions

Match The Words To Their Meanings

Use The New Words

Listen To The Song

Verse 1

Chorus

Verse 2

Verse 3

Final Chorus

Check All Answers

Talk About The Song

Express Yourself

Make it a Story