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7 Years

Lukas Graham · 2015

7 Years by Lukas Graham (2015) — 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

  • Once, I was seven years old
  • It was a big-big world, but we thought we were bigger
  • Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
  • By 11, smoking herb and drinking burning liquor

Echo the hook

  • Once, I was 20 years old
  • (Lukas Graham!)
  • I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure
  • 'Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

"Go makesome friends, or you'll be lonely"

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Once, I wasyears old

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

"Go get yourself a wife, orbe lonely"

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

So Iwriting songs, I started writing stories

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Before thesun, when life was lonely

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

We'vearound the world, and we're still roaming

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Once, I was seven years old

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Once, I was 11 years old

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Once, I was 20 years old

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Soon, I'll be 60 years old

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

By 11, smoking herb and drinking burning liquor

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

"Go make ? some friends, or you'll be lonely"

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

By 11, ? herb and drinking burning liquor

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Once, I was 11 ? old

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Before the ? sun, when life was lonely

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

We've ? around the world, and we're still roaming

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 "years" in the whole song?

"years"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "soon" in the whole song?

"soon"

Exercise 24

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

  • Before the morning sun, when life was lonely
  • Once, I was seven years old
  • Soon, we'll be 30 years old

Exercise 25

Rewrite the chorus of "7 Years" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

yearssooni'llseven

Exercise 26

If you had to summarize "7 Years" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

yearssooni'llseven

Exercise 27

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "7 Years" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

yearssooni'llseven

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you'll→
  • don't→
  • i'll→
  • we'll→
  • we've→
  • we're→

Exercise 29

Who in your life would you dedicate "7 Years" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 30

The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.

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