https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKVP6QxEf-0
English Exercise: "One Night In Bangkok"
Artist: Murray Head
Level: B1 (Intermediate)
Instructions: Listen to the song and fill in the missing words from the box below.
Vocabulary Box
city • world • minute • level • lucky • pieces • pity • crowded • move • company • test • game • watch • history • walking
Lyrics Exercise
[Verse 1] Bangkok, Oriental setting And the (1) __________ don't know what the city is getting The crème de la crème of the chess (2) __________ In a show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies, doesn't seem a (3) __________ Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in it All change, don't you know that when you Play at this (4) __________ there's no ordinary venue
[Chorus] One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're (5) __________ then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me
[Verse 2] One town's very like another When your head's down over your (6) __________, brother It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a (7) __________ To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
Whaddya mean? You've seen one (8) __________, polluted, stinking town Tea, girls, warm and sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist Whose every (9) __________’s among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
[Chorus] One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your (10) __________ I can feel the devil (11) __________ next to me
[Verse 3] Siam's gonna be the witness To the ultimate (12) __________ of cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
And thank God I'm only watching the (13) __________, controlling it I don't see you guys rating The kind of mate I'm contemplating I'd let you (14) __________, I would invite you But the queens we use would not excite you
[Chorus] One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister A little flesh, a little (15) __________ I can feel an angel sliding up to me
Answer Key
city
world
minute
level
lucky
pieces
pity
crowded
move
company
walking
test
game
watch
history
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