Beyoncé "If I Were A Boy"

Here's a song that contains a lot of conditionals. Listen to it and fill the gaps. Then check your answers by clicking here. Also have a look at the vocabulary section and check your answers with a dictionary (you find some good dictionaries on the right side bar in the "Links" section.

If I Were A Boy

If I ________ a boy even just for a day

I _________ roll out of bed in the morning

And throw on what I wanted

And go ________  beer with the guys

And _________  after girls

I'd kick it with who I wanted

And I'd never get confronted for it

'Cause they stick up for me

If I were a boy

I think I could ______________

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I'd be a better man

I'd __________ to her

'Cause I know how it ___________

When you lose the one you wanted

'Cause he's taking you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

If I ___________ a boy

I __________ turn off my phone

Tell everyone it's broken

So they'd think that I was sleeping ___________

I'd put myself first

And make the rules as I go

'Cause I know that she'd be faithful

Waiting for me to come home, to come home

If I ___________ a boy

I think I ___________ understand

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I'd be a better man

I ___________ listen to her

'Cause I know how it ______________

When you lose the one you wanted

'Cause he's taking you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed

It's a little too late for you to come back

Say it's just a ___________

Think I'd forgive you like that

If you thought I would ___________ for you

You thought wrong

But you're just a boy

You don't understand

Yeah you don't understand

How it feels to love a girl someday

You wish you were a better man

You don't listen to her

You don't care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted

Cause you've taken her for granted

And everything you have got destroyed



Vocabulary: For each item, choose the phrase that is most similar in meaning.


1. Roll out of bed    
a) wake up slowly
b) fall asleep unintentionally
c) fall out of bed


2. throw on what I wanted  
a)  put on a CD
b) get dressed casually
c) throw something


3. kick it 
a) spend time with friends
b)  play football
c) practice karate


4. stick up for me  
a) make jokes about me
b) defend or justify my actions
c) rob me


5. take you for granted
a) take you to dinner
b) take you to jail
c) not appreciate you


6. put myself first
a) jump in the queue
b) win something
c) make yourself first priority