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Beatles "Yesterday" Song Activity Guide

The song "Yesterday" by The Beatles describes a man feeling sad that his troubles from yesterday seem far away now and are here to stay. He believes in yesterday but is no longer the man he used to be. A shadow hangs over him and yesterday came suddenly. His girlfriend left without explanation and now he longs for yesterday, when love was such an easy game to play and he had a place to hide away. The singer feels sad, and his girlfriend has left him.

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Beatles "Yesterday" Song Activity Guide

The song "Yesterday" by The Beatles describes a man feeling sad that his troubles from yesterday seem far away now and are here to stay. He believes in yesterday but is no longer the man he used to be. A shadow hangs over him and yesterday came suddenly. His girlfriend left without explanation and now he longs for yesterday, when love was such an easy game to play and he had a place to hide away. The singer feels sad, and his girlfriend has left him.

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Yesterday

by the Beatles

1. (Song) Listen to the song and fill in the blanks with the actions in the past.

■ say ■ seem ■ use ■ come ■ have

Yesterday all my troubles ______ so far away.


Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I ______ to be.


There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday ______ suddenly.

Why she ______ to go?


I don't know, she wouldn't say.
I ______ something wrong.
Now I long for yesterday.

2. Match the two parts of the sentences.

Yesterday

1 love was a in yesterday

2 Now I need a place b such an easy game to play

3 Oh, I believe c to hide away


3. Answer the questions.

1 How does the singer feel?


■ excited
■ scared
■ sad

2 What has happened to him?


■ he has lost his job
■ his girlfriend has left him
■ he can’t find his cat Yesterday.

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