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1. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps.

What good is _________alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Put down the _____________,
The book and the broom.
Time for a____________.
Life is Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Come _________ the wine,
Come hear the band.
Come blow your__________,
Start celebrating;
Right this way,
Your table’s waiting

No use _____________
some prophet of doom
To ________ every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!

I used to have a ____________
known as Elsie
With whom I shared
Four sordid ___________in Chelsea

She wasn’t what you’d call
A ____________ flower…
As a matter of fact
She rented by the hour.

The day she ____________the neighbors
came to___________:
“Well, thats what comes
from to much _______ and liquor.”

But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
She was the happiest…_____________…
I’d ever seen.

I think of Elsie to this very day.
I remember how she’d ________to me and say:
“What good is __________alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.”

And as for me,
I made up my _________back in Chelsea,
When I go, I’m going like Elsie.

Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
Isn’t that long a stay.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
And I love a Cabaret!

2. Find words or expressions in the song that are similar in meaning to the following:

• For all your life:
• Buddy, brother, pal:
• Having a red face from embarrassment, shame, agitation or emotional upset:
• Laugh quietly:
• A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet:

3. Find words in the song that sound like the word in each circle and add two more to each group.

4. Who is the singer talking about? In pairs, think of a short description of the girl and tell your partners.