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Baba O'Riley

The Who · 1971

Baba O'Riley by The Who (1971) — 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

  • Teenage wasteland
  • It's only teenage wasteland
  • Teenage wasteland
  • Oh, yeah

Echo the hook

  • It's only teenage wasteland
  • Sally, take my hand
  • We'll travel south cross land
  • Put out the fire
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

ToI'm right

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Don'tyour eye

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

It's onlywasteland

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

We'llsouth cross land

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Theis here

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Theworlds are near

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I farm for my meals

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I don't need to fight

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I don't need to be forgiven

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Before we get much older

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Out here in the fields

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I ? for my meals

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

To ? I'm right

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Yeah, ? yeah, yeah, yeah

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

It's only ? wasteland

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

And don't look ? my shoulder

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 "teenage" in the whole song?

"teenage"

Exercise 24

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

  • And don't look past my shoulder
  • Out here in the fields
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Exercise 25

Who in your life would you dedicate "Baba O'Riley" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 26

Compare "Baba O'Riley" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Baba O'Riley", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • i'm→
  • it's→
  • we'll→
  • let's→
  • they're→

Exercise 29

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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Exercise 30

If you had to summarize "Baba O'Riley" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

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