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Beautiful Day

U2 · 2000

Beautiful Day by U2 (2000) — 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

  • It's a beautiful day
  • Sky falls, you feel like
  • It's a beautiful day
  • Don't let it get away

Echo the hook

  • Touch me
  • Take me to that other place
  • Teach me
  • I know I'm not a hopeless case

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Theis a bloom

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And thethat you had to care

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Infor grace

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

You'rethis town

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

I know I'm not acase

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

See the tunaclearing the sea out

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You're out of luck

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And you're not moving anywhere

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

To take you out of this place

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Sky falls, you feel like

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But you've got no destination

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

The ? is a bloom

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

And ? not moving anywhere

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

But ? got no destination

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

See the ? in green and blue

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

See the ? with a leaf in her mouth

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 "beautiful" in the whole song?

"beautiful"

Exercise 24

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

  • I know I'm not a hopeless case
  • It's a beautiful day
  • The heart is a bloom

Exercise 25

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

  • See China right in front of you
  • Shoots up through the stony ground
  • You're lovin' this town

Exercise 26

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

don'tbeautifulyou'reit's

Exercise 27

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

don'tbeautifulyou'reit's

Exercise 28

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Beautiful Day" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

don'tbeautifulyou'reit's

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • there's
  • you're
  • you'd
  • it's
  • don't
  • you've

Exercise 30

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

don'tbeautifulyou'reit's