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Bad Romance

Lady Gaga · 2009

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga (2009) — 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

  • Want your bad romance
  • Rah, rah-ah-ah-ah
  • Roma, roma-ma
  • Gaga, ooh-la-la

Echo the hook

  • Walk, walk, fashion baby
  • Work it, move that bitch crazy
  • Walk, walk, fashion baby
  • Work it, move that bitch crazy

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I want youras long as it's free

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

You and me coulda bad romance (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

'Causea criminal as long as you're mine

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Want you in my rearbaby, you're sick

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Work it, move thatcrazy

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I want your love, I don'tbe friends

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I want your ugly, I want your disease

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Love, love, love, I want your love hey

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You know that I want you

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I want it bad, your bad romance

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I want your horror, I want your design

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I ? your ugly, I want your disease

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

You and me could ? a bad romance (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I want your ? your vertigo shtick (hey)

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Work it, ? that bitch crazy

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Work it, I'm a ? bitch, baby

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 "want" in the whole song?

"want"

Exercise 23

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

"romance"

Exercise 24

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

  • Caught in a bad romance
  • Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
  • Walk, walk, fashion baby

Exercise 25

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Bad Romance", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 26

Describe the mood of "Bad Romance" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's
  • you're
  • i'm
  • don't
  • wanna

Exercise 29

"Bad Romance" was released in 2009. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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Exercise 30

If you could ask Lady Gaga one question about "Bad Romance", what would it be and why?

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