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Castle on the Hill

Ed Sheeran · 2017

Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran (2017) — selected for the English-through-music catalog. Use the sing-along prompts and exercises to drill pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.

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🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • Over the castle on the hill (hill)
  • Over the castle on the hill (hill)
  • One friend left to sell clothes
  • One works down by the coast

Echo the hook

  • I'm on my way
  • Driving at 90 down those country lanes
  • Singing to Tiny Dancer
  • And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I wasfrom my brother and his friends

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Driving at 90 downcountry lanes

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Had mykiss on a Friday night

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Weweekend jobs, when we got paid

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Oneleft to sell clothes

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

One'son his second wife

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm on my way

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We'd buy cheap spirits and drink them straight

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I'm on my way

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

When we did not know the answers

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Made friends and lost them through the years

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I was ? from my brother and his friends

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Fifteen ? old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I was ? then, take me back to when

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Over the castle on the ? (hill)

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

One's just ? getting by, but

Exercise 17

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 18

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 19

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 20

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 21

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 22

How many times do you hear the word "hill" in the whole song?

"hill"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "castle" in the whole song?

"castle"

Exercise 24

Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:

  • Found my heart and broke it here
  • One had two kids, but lives alone
  • We found weekend jobs, when we got paid

Exercise 25

And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:

  • Made friends and lost them through the years
  • One's just barely getting by, but
  • Over the castle on the hill (hill)

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Castle on the Hill" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 27

If you could ask Ed Sheeran one question about "Castle on the Hill", what would it be and why?

hillcastlefriendsyears

Exercise 28

Rewrite the chorus of "Castle on the Hill" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

hillcastlefriendsyears

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i've→
  • can't→
  • i'm→
  • it's→
  • don't→
  • we've→

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Castle on the Hill", what would happen instead?

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