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A1.2·rock · alternative·3:24

Believer

Imagine Dragons · 2017

High-energy chorus repeats 'pain / you made me a believer' — great for teaching past simple of irregular verbs and present perfect of 'make'.

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🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • It rained down, like...
  • Pain!
  • You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

Sing the opening verse

  • First things first
  • I'ma say all the words inside my head
  • I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh-ooh
  • The way that things have been, oh-ooh
pain· dorbeliever· crente / quem acreditabreak· quebrar

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I'ma say all theinside my head

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Taking myto the masses

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Speaking myfrom the brain

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Send ato the ones up above

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Falling liketo the ground

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Till itopen and it rained down

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'ma say all the words inside my head

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I was choking in the crowd

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But they never did, ever lived

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The way that things have been, oh-ooh

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The master of my sea, oh-ooh

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I'ma say all the ? inside my head

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Writing my ? for the few

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Oh, let the ? fly, oh, let them rain

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Living my ? up in the cloud

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Till it ? open and it rained down

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 "pain" in the whole song?

"pain"

Exercise 23

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

"believer"

Exercise 24

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

  • First things first
  • Living my brain up in the cloud
  • Singing from heartache from the pain

Exercise 25

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

  • Hoping my feelings, they would drown
  • I'ma say all the words inside my head
  • Third things third

Exercise 26

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

painbelieverbreakstronger

Exercise 27

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

painbelieverbreakstronger

Exercise 28

Compare "Believer" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

painbelieverbreakstronger

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'm→
  • don't→
  • you've→
  • you're→

Exercise 30

Match each English word or phrase to its Portuguese meaning.

  • pain→
  • believer→
  • break→
  • stronger→