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B1.1·soul · pop·3:05

Bad Dreams

Teddy Swims · 2024

Bad Dreams by Teddy Swims (2024) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
  • Bad dreams
  • Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
  • All of these

Echo the hook

  • But there's no you and I
  • No sound when I cry
  • I love you and I need you to set me free
  • From all of these bad dreams (bad dreams)
thesedreamswithout

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Sun isdown, time is running out

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Steadylight, steady losing my mind

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Without you,no way I can sleep tonight

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Nowhen I cry

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Waiting on theside

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Hellishcloud my head

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Without you, I keep slipping into bad dreams

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

No sound when I cry

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I can't do this by myself

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

No one else around but me

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Over shadows and gravity ooh

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Sun is ? down, time is running out

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Steady ? light, steady losing my mind

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Without you, I ? slipping into bad dreams

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Waiting on the ? side

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

What you ? for?

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 "these" in the whole song?

"these"

Exercise 23

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

"dreams"

Exercise 24

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

  • From all of these, all of these
  • No sound when I cry
  • Sun is going down, time is running out

Exercise 25

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

  • Baby, please come around, help me settle down
  • From all of these (all of these)
  • No one else around but me

Exercise 26

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

thesedreamswithoutfree

Exercise 27

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

thesedreamswithoutfree

Exercise 28

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

thesedreamswithoutfree

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • there's→
  • can't→

Exercise 30

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

thesedreamswithoutfree