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Celebration

Kool & the Gang · 1980

Celebration by Kool & the Gang (1980) — 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

  • Celebrate good times, come on
  • It's a celebration
  • Celebrate good times, come on
  • Let's celebrate

Echo the hook

  • Celebrate good times, come on (Let's celebrate)
  • Celebrate good times, come on (Let's celebrate)
  • There's a party goin' on right here
  • A celebration to last throughout the years

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Celebrate goodcome on (Let's celebrate)

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Ato last throughout the years

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Wecelebrate your party with you

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

It's up to you,your pleasure?

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

There's a party goin' onhere

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

So bring your good times and yourtoo

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We gonna celebrate your party with you

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

It's up to you, what's your pleasure?

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We're gonna have a good time tonight

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Yahoo! This is your celebration

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

There's a party goin' on right here

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Celebrate ? times, come on (Let's celebrate)

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

A ? to last throughout the years

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Let's all ? and have a good time

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

There's a party ? on right here

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Let's celebrate, it's all ? 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 "celebrate" in the whole song?

"celebrate"

Exercise 23

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

"good"

Exercise 24

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

  • Celebrate good times, come on
  • Let's celebrate, come on now
  • Yahoo! This is your celebration

Exercise 25

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

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Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • let's
  • there's
  • gonna
  • it's
  • what's
  • we're

Exercise 29

Imagine you are making a short film with "Celebration" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

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Exercise 30

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

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