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A2.1·pop · funk·4:07

Bad

Michael Jackson · 1987

Repeated assertion using ironic 'bad' (= very good in 80s slang). Great vocabulary lesson on register shift.

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Sing with the chorus

  • Just to tell you once again
  • Who's bad?
  • The word is out, you're doin' it wrong, ah
  • Gon' lock you up before too long, ah

Echo the hook

  • Just to tell you once again (hoo)
  • You know I'm bad, I'm bad, shamone (bad, bad, really, really bad)
  • You know I'm bad, I'm bad (bad, bad)
  • You know it, you know it (really, really bad)
bad· ruim / ótimo (gíria)tough· durão / fortecool· legal

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Just show your face indaylight, ah

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Ah, I'myou on count to three, ah

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And to mereally true, ah

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And theworld has to answer right now

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Your talk isyou're not a man, ah

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

We canthe world tomorrow

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm tellin' you on who I feel, ah

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I know your game, what you're about

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But, my friend, you have seen nothin'

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You know I'm bad, I'm bad bad, bad

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Shamone, you know really, really bad

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Just ? your face in broad daylight, ah

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

I ? your game, what you're about

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And the ? world has to answer right now

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Your ? is cheap, you're not a man, ah

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

This could be a ? place, ah

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 "world" in the whole song?

"world"

Exercise 23

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

"really"

Exercise 24

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

  • Just show your face in broad daylight, ah
  • Just to tell you once again
  • This could be a better place, ah

Exercise 25

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

  • But, my friend, you have seen nothin'
  • I'm tellin' you on who I feel, ah
  • You know I'm bad, I'm bad (bad, bad)

Exercise 26

If you could ask Michael Jackson one question about "Bad", what would it be and why?

badtoughcoolworld

Exercise 27

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

badtoughcoolworld

Exercise 28

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

badtoughcoolworld

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'm→
  • gonna→
  • don't→
  • you're→
  • that's→
  • who's→

Exercise 30

Match each English word or phrase to its Portuguese meaning.

  • bad→
  • tough→
  • cool→
  • world→