Coldplay: Green eyes

• Have you ever heard about Coldplay?
• What do you know about this band?
• Have you ever heard this song, ‘Green Eyes”?
• What do you think this song talks about?  Love, friendship, affairs…?

VOCABULARY: 

Metaphors & their meanings in the song:

In the spotlight: metaphor; to be in the spotlight is when everybody is looking at you expecting something.
Lighter: Fig. to comparative of light; the opposite of heavier.
To go on: phrasal verb; to continue.
To Stand: metaphor; to be placed or situated an upright position. 
To Shine: What light does when it hits a metal or glass surface. Also what the sun does.
To flow: What water or air does when it moves.
Out of one’s mind: Fig. to be silly and senseless; to be crazy and irrational. 
 

• Upon: is much more formal that ‘on’, but it can be used with the same meanings as the preposition on. 
•  Cause = Because ( or “cos” )

Choose the correct words: 
 
Honey you are a rod/rock
Upon which I hand/stand
And I come here to balk/talk
I hope you understand/comprehend
 
(Chorus) Put these sentences in order and complete the word missing:

1. Deny you?
2. Yeah the spotlight
3. And how _______
4. Shines upon you
5. The green eyes.
6. Anybody

Listen and match the lines correctly(complete the words missing):

1. I came here with a load
2. Now I've met you
3. That I ______ never go on
4. Green

a) without you
b) and it feels so much lighter
c) eyes
d) and honey you _______ know


Listen and choose the right word (there's one modal verb missing).  

Honey you are the seed/sea
Upon which I gloat/float
And I came here to talk/walk
I think you _______ show/know
Fill in with the correct modal verbs:

(Chorus)
The green eyes
You're the one that
I wanted to find
Anyone who
Tried to deny you
________be out of their mind

'cause I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter
Since i've met you
And honey you ________ know
That I _______ never go on
Without you
Green eyes
Green eyes ohohohoh
Ohohohoh
Ohohohoh
Ohohohoh

Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand...



POST-LISTENING

1) What do you think the song is about?
2) How does the singer feel? 
3) What kind of feelings does the
     Singer  Chris Martin express
     through this song? 
     Do you think it is a happy or sad
     song?
3) Who is addressing?
4) Have you ever had a special person
    at any point in your life,
    you   could never go on without
    him/her?
5) What do you think of the singer’s feeling?
6) How would you react in a similar situation?