vineri, 27 februarie 2026

One Night in Bangkok

 


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

  1. city

  2. world

  3. minute

  4. level

  5. lucky

  6. pieces

  7. pity

  8. crowded

  9. move

  10. company

  11. walking

  12. test

  13. game

  14. watch

  15. history

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