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American Idiot

Green Day · 2004

American Idiot by Green Day (2004) — 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

  • Welcome to a new kind of tension
  • All across the alien nation
  • Where everything isn't meant to be okay
  • In television dreams of tomorrow

Echo the hook

  • Don't wanna be an American idiot
  • Don't want a nation under the new media
  • And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
  • The subliminal mindfuck, America
meantnationdon't

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Don'tbe an American idiot

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Themindfuck, America

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Indreams of tomorrow

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I'm not a part of aagenda

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

All across thenation

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

For that'sto argue

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Don't wanna be an American idiot

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The subliminal mindfuck, America

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

All across the alien nation

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Don't ? be an American idiot

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Welcome to a new ? of tension

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

For ? enough to argue

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And ? along to the age of paranoia

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

For that's ? to argue

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 "meant" in the whole song?

"meant"

Exercise 23

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

"nation"

Exercise 24

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

  • Don't want a nation under the new media
  • One nation controlled by the media
  • Welcome to a new kind of tension

Exercise 25

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

meantnationdon'tidiot

Exercise 26

Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?

meantnationdon'tidiot

Exercise 27

"American Idiot" was released in 2004. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

meantnationdon'tidiot

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • wanna→
  • isn't→
  • we're→
  • that's→
  • i'm→

Exercise 29

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

meantnationdon'tidiot

Exercise 30

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

meantnationdon'tidiot