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A2.1·rock·4:34

Closing Time

Semisonic · 1998

Closing Time by Semisonic (1998) — 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

Take me home
Closing time, time for you to go out
To the places you will be from
Closing time, this room won't be open

Echo the hook

Closing time, every new beginning
Comes from some other beginning's end, yeah
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home

homeknowwant

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Closing time, turn all of theon

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Overboy and every girl

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

So,your whiskey or beer

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Till youror your sisters come

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

I hope you havea friend

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Comes from somebeginning's end, yeah

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And let you out into the world

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But you can't stay here

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

To the places you will be from

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Closing time, open all the doors

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Over every boy and every girl

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Closing ? open all the doors

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Closing time, one ? call for alcohol

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

But you ? stay here

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

To the ? you will be from

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I ? you have found a friend

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 "home" in the whole song?

"home"

Exercise 23

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

"know"

Exercise 24

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

But you can't stay here
Closing time, every new beginning
Closing time, open all the doors

Exercise 25

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

And let you out into the world
Comes from some other beginning's end, yeah
To the places you will be from

Exercise 26

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

homeknowwanttime

Exercise 27

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

homeknowwanttime

Exercise 28

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Closing Time", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

don't→
can't→
won't→

Exercise 30

The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.

homeknowwanttime