Blank Space
Taylor Swift · 2014
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Got a long list of ex-lovers
- They'll tell you I'm insane
- 'Cause you know I love the players
- And you love the game
Echo the hook
- I could show you incredible things
- Magic, madness, heaven, sin
- Saw you there and I thought
- "Oh, my God, look at that face
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
Fill the blank in this line:
Exercise 2
Fill the blank in this line:
Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
Fill the blank in this line:
Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Nice to meet you, where you been?
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Saw you there and I thought
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
I can read you like a magazine
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
They'll tell you I'm insane
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Nice to ? you, where you been?
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
And I ? you heard about me
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
It'll ? you breathless, mm
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
Be that ? for a month
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
If the high was ? the pain
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 19
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 20
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 21
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "it's" in the whole song?
"it's"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "tell" in the whole song?
"tell"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- And you love the game
- Nice to meet you, where you been?
- Or with a nasty scar
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- But I've got a blank space, baby
- I could show you incredible things
- Rose garden filled with thorns
Exercise 26
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?
Exercise 27
"Blank Space" was released in 2014. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.
Exercise 28
Imagine you are making a short film with "Blank Space" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
wanna→let's→i'm→it's→gonna→they'll→
Exercise 30
What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Blank Space" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.