Arcade song

Task 1. Warm-up

Do you like listening to music? When and where do you usually listen to music?

What musical instruments do you see?
What music do you usually listen to?
How does music make you feel?

Task 2: Lead-in

1. Can you name some really popular songs nowadays? Where did you first hear them? (on TV, on radio, on social media, etc.)
2. How do some songs become popular and the others go unnoticed?
3. Are there any old songs that you first heard from the reels made on social media?

Are you familiar with this melody? What song is it?

- Have you seen short videos/reels with it on social media platforms? What videos are they?
- Do you know who the singer is?
- Do you know the words and what the song is about?

Task 3. General theme

What came to your mind when you saw the title of the song?

Have you seen its music video? What is the general theme of the song?

We'll check your guesses during completing next task

Task 4. Filling

Read the text of the song and guess the missing words. Listen to the song to check your answers.

A broken 1.______ is all that’s left
I’m still fixing all the cracks
Lost a 2.______ of pieces when
I carried it, carried it, carried it home.

I’m afraid of all I am
My mind feels like a 3.______ land
Silence ringing 4.______ my head
Please carry me, carry me, carry me home.

I’ve spent all of the 5.______ I saved
We were always a losing game
Small town boy in a big 6.______
I got addicted to a losing game.

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

Do you love me, love me not?
Peeling 7.______ from my heart
My rose colored lens is gone
Still I carried, I carried, I carried on

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

I don’t need your 8.______, game over
Get me off this 9.______

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

I don’t need your 8.______, game over
Get me off this 9.______

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

Oh Oh
All I know, all I know
Loving you is a losing game.

Task 5. Vocabulary

Read the definitions and find the appropriate words:

1. to transport something or someone from one place to another, usually with your hands or arms;
2. a video game characterized by a short but intense gameplay;
3. doing something as a habit without being able to stop;
4. a line on the surface of something that is damaged;
5. the state of complete quiet without any sounds;
6. a happy or positive attitude that fails to notice negative things, leading to a view of life that is not realistic;
7. to remove the skin of fruit and vegetables;
8. to continue doing something;
9. elevated railway in an amusement park.

Task 6. Grammar

What tenses were used in the song? Let's look and say why do you think the songwriter used each of these tenses?

Task 7. The real meaning

- What can you say about the colours, effects, things that were used in the music clip?
- What associations were caused by the song?
- What did the singer want to say? What is the idea of the song?
- Have you listened to Duncan Laurence’s other songs? What does he usually sing about?

1. “Arcade” is Duncan’s first song.
2. Duncan won the Eurovision which was held in the Netherlands.
3. The singer’s parents went to the Eurovision.
4. People didn’t like the song at first.
5. When he was in high school, he got bullied because of his songs.

Task 8. Discussion

1. How important is music in your life?
2. Imagine that there is no music in the world, how do you feel?
3. How much time do you spend listening to music each day or week?
4. Is there a song that makes you emotional?
5. What emotions do you feel when different instruments are being played?