Interests and ambitions...

We have been talking about students' interests and ambitions.
Many of my students refered that they would like to travel to other countries in the world and visit cities like New York and London.

There's a song that refers to New York and to people's expectations towards it.

Listen to this song now and try to fill in the gaps with the correct words.



Empire State of Mind

Ooohh New York x2

Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of ............... ...............
Noise was always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
If I can make it here, I can make it ..............., that's what they say
Seeing my face in .................... or my name on marquees found down on Broadway

Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of ...................
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete ................. where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ................. you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York!

On the ................., there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard
Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, ............... pray to God
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
Some will sleep tonight with a .................. far more than an empty fridge

I'm gonna make it by any means, I get a pocketful of .............
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete ............ where dreams are made of
There's ................. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These street will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ............. you
Hear it for New York, New York, New York!

One .............. in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking .............
No place in the world that can ...............
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's .............. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will ............ you
Now you're in New York!

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's ................. you can't do
Now you're in New York
These street will make you feel brand new
Big lights will................inspire you
Hear it for New York!

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