Lyrics, Billy Joe

The River of Dreams by Billy Joel Author of This Exercise:ESL Teacher Judith Jékél Source: English Exercises www.englishexercises.org Watch the video and do the following exercises. Write in the missing prepositions.  the middle   the night I go walking   my sleep  the mountains   faith  the river so deep I must be looking   something Something sacred I lost But the river is wide And it’s too hard to cross Choose the words that you can hear And even doughthroughthoughthought I know the river is widewhitewildwind  I waketaketalkwalk  down every evening and stand on the showshorestoresore  I try to cross to the opposite sideslidesightsite  So I cancan'tcanecannal  finally find what I’ve binbeanbeenbee  looking for Write in the missing words. The images may help . In the middle of the   I go   in my sleep Through the   of fear To a   so deep I’m a   for something Taken out of my soul Something I’d never   Something somebody   Match the beginning and the end of the following lines. I don’t know why                A  the rest of my life But now I’m tired and             B  I go walking at night     Hope it doesn’t take                      C   I don’t wanna walk anymore Until I find what it is              D   I’ve been looking for Unscramble the words in brackets. In the   (lieddm) of the night I go walking in my  (elesp) Through the   (lejung) of doubt To the river so   (edpe) I know I’m   (hcaengsir) for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the  (inldb) In the middle of the night Write in the missing words. The images may help. I’m not sure about a life after this  knows I’ve never been a spiritual man Baptized by the , I wade into the river That is   to the promised land In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep Through the   of truth To the river so deep We all end in the   We all   in the streams We’re all carried along By the river of    In the middle of the night