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COUNTING STARS Exercises By ONE REPUBLIC Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
(x2) (repeat) Everything that kills me makes feel alive (repeat) |
To print (PDF) and (doc) By Isabel Pérez
1. – Fill the blanks with the words from the box.
alive, dollars, face, feel, find, hard, kills, lately, life,line, make, right, river, signs, sleep, sold, stars, take, vine, word, wrong, young, |
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