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A2.2·rock·4:26

1979

The Smashing Pumpkins · 1995

1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins (1995) — selected for the English-through-music catalog. Use the sing-along prompts and exercises to drill pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.

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🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess

Echo the hook

That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts

don'tnevercare

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Cool kidshave the time

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

June buglike a stone

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Into thebelow

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

In the land of aguilts

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Faster than wewe'd go

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I know youthan you fake it

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You and I should meet

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And we don't know

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

That we don't even care

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We feel the pull

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I know you better than you fake it

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Cool ? never have the time

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

And I ? even care

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Double-cross the ? and the bored

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

To the ? and towns below

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Hung down with the ? and ghouls

Exercise 17

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 18

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 19

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 20

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 21

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 22

How many times do you hear the word "don't" in the whole song?

"don't"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "never" in the whole song?

"never"

Exercise 24

Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:

Cool kids never have the time
Justine never knew the rules
Morphine city slippin' dues

Exercise 25

And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:

And poured cement
I know you better than you fake it
You and I should meet

Exercise 26

Describe the mood of "1979" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

don'tnevercareknow

Exercise 27

Who in your life would you dedicate "1979" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

don'tnevercareknow

Exercise 28

Compare "1979" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

don'tnevercareknow

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

don't→
they're→
there's→

Exercise 30

Imagine you are making a short film with "1979" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

don'tnevercareknow