The Hall of Fame

Listen to the video and try to do the exercises provided. As usual, the answers are at the bottom of the post :

"Hall Of Fame"
(feat. Will.I.Am)

Yeah, you can be the greatest
You can be the best
You can be the King Kong banging on your (1) _____________

You could beat the world
You could beat the _____________ (2)
You could talk to God, go banging on his door

You can throw your hands up
You can beat the ____________ (3) (yeah)
You can move a mountain
You can break ______________ (4)
You can be a master
Don't wait for _______________ (5)
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself

Standing in the hall of fame (yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (yeah)
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame (yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (yeah)
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame
(Chorus) 

You can go the distance
You can run the __________ (6)
You can walk straight through hell with a smile

You could be the hero
You could get the gold
Breaking all the ____________ (7) they thought never could be broken

Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your ______________ (8)
How you ever gonna know if you never even try?

Do it for your country
Do it for your ____________ (9)
'Cause there's gonna be a day when

(Chorus)

Be a champion, be a champion, be a champion, be a champion
On the walls of the hall of fame

Be students
Be _____________ (10)
Be politicians
Be ______________ (11)
(Yeah)

Be believers
Be______________ (12)
Be astronauts
Be champions
Be truth _____________ (13)
Be students
Be ______________
Be politicians
Be _____________

Be believers
Be leaders
Be astronauts
Be champions

Chorus

(You can be a champion...) Repeated and mixed with chorus

Standing in the hall of fame

Exercises 
1. Fill in the gaps of the lyrics of the song. If it's too difficult, choose the right answer:

1. a) chess                   b) chest                       c) church                     d) checks

2. a) war                     b) word                       c) world                      d) worst

3. a) crock                   b) cock                        c) cork                         d) clock

4. a) crocks                 b) rags                         c) racks                       d) rocks

5. a) look                    b) lack                         c) luck                         d) lark

6. a) mare                    b) mire                        c) mile                         d) mine

7. a) seconds               b) rackets                    c) records                    d) rates

8. a) ride                     b) pride                       c) proud                      d) fide

9. a) name                   b) vein                        c) cane                        d) plane

10. a) features             b) teachers                  c) T-shirts                   d) tickers

11. a) seekers              b) features                  c) preachers                d) teachers

12. a) leaders              b) livers                       c) leathers                   d) litter

13. a) siders                b) sitters                      c) seekers                    d) shitters 

2. Find three superlative forms in the lyrics of the song

3. Find a relative clause where the relative pronoun has been omitted

4. Explain the meaning of the following expressions:
a) beat the clock
b) break a record
c) hall of fame

5. Find an example of an onomatopoeic word

Answers :
1)
1b; 2c; 3d; 4d; 5c; 6c; 7c; 8b; 9a; 10b; 11c; 12a; 13c

2) Greatest, best, brightest

3) Breaking all the records (that/which) they thought never could be broken

4) Beat the clock : Perform a task quickly. In sports, perform a sports task in better time.
    Break a record: To perform a given task at a better degree than the one currently known.
    Hall of fame: A kind of ranking containing particularly industrious, hard-working, record-breaking sportspeople in different categories. 

5) The word 'bang' is onomatopoeic since it reproduces an explosion-like noise. 

Well, don't you enjoy learning English with songs? I'm sure that's the perfect way to advance with your English learning process? If you're interested in polishing your English with songs, do not hesitate and click on the links below. See you next week!
The Script's The Hall of Fame; Jessie J's Price Tag; The Police's Every Breath You Take; U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; Bruno Mar's Don't Give Up; The Cure's Friday I'm In Love; Smash Mouth's I'm A Believer; Michael Bublé's It's A Beautiful Day; songs related to peace; Cold Play's Paradise; Christmas carols; Christmas carols II; Tracy Chapman's Fast Car; Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know; Happy Birthday songs.