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Payphone

Maroon 5

About this song worksheet

A printable ESL song worksheet for “Payphone” by Maroon 5, for Level 4 (upper intermediate) learners, with a focus on past simple. Students listen and fill 14 gaps in the lyrics, then discuss the song.

Discussion questions

  1. The singer says 'all of our bridges burned down.' What does this idiom mean, and do you think the relationship can be saved at this point in the song?
  2. Wiz Khalifa's rap verse has a very different tone from the main song. How does his perspective on the break-up differ from Adam Levine's, and which do you find more believable?
  3. Have you ever kept trying to contact someone who wasn't responding? How did it feel, and what did you do in the end?

A printable song worksheet for Payphone by Maroon 5, focusing on Past simple. Includes gap-fill, vocabulary, and discussion activities.

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