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Beautiful Ones

Suede · 1996

Beautiful Ones by Suede (1996) — 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

  • The beautiful ones
  • The beautiful ones
  • La, la, la, la, la
  • Here they come

Echo the hook

  • La, la, la, la la, la, la
  • La, la, la, la, la la
  • La, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
  • La, la, la, la, la, la, la

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Oh, high onand gasoline

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Oh,up, stacked up, 22

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Oh,heads, rave heads on the pill

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

La-la,up, doved up

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Oh-oh, you don'tabout it

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Becausebeautiful, yeah, yeah

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

In your dad's suits you hide

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Here they come

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You don't do without it

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

That's how you made me, la, la

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

That's how you made me

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Oh, ? on diesel and gasoline

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

In your ? suits you hide

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Oh, ? heads, rave heads on the pill

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Hung around, ? in a lonely town

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

You don't do ? it

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 "beautiful" in the whole song?

"beautiful"

Exercise 23

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

"ones"

Exercise 24

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

  • Hung around, stoned in a lonely town
  • La, la, la, la, la
  • Oh, high on diesel and gasoline

Exercise 25

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

  • Here they come
  • La, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
  • Psycho for drum machine

Exercise 26

If you could ask Suede one question about "Beautiful Ones", what would it be and why?

beautifulonespsychoshaking

Exercise 27

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

beautifulonespsychoshaking

Exercise 28

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

beautifulonespsychoshaking

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't
  • you're
  • that's

Exercise 30

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

beautifulonespsychoshaking