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B1.2·rock · britpop·5:50

Common People

Pulp · 1995

Common People by Pulp (1995) — 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

  • Wanna live with common people like you
  • Wanna live with common people like you
  • Wanna live with common people like you
  • Wanna live with common people like you

Echo the hook

  • Wanna sleep with common people
  • I wanna sleep with common people
  • Like you
  • What else could I do?
commonpeoplenever

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Shesculpture at Saint Martin's College

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

But I had toit somewhere

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

But sheunderstand

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And thenand drink and screw

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Like a dogin a corner

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

And withleft to go

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She told me that her dad was loaded

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And then in thirty seconds time, she said

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I wanna do whatever common people do

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What else could I do?

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

She ? sculpture at Saint Martin's College

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

So it ? there

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Cut your ? and get a job

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Sing along and it ? just get you through

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

With no ? or control

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 "common" in the whole song?

"common"

Exercise 23

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

"people"

Exercise 24

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

  • How it feels to live your life
  • She just smiled and held my hand
  • She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College

Exercise 25

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

  • Because there's nothing else to do, ow
  • That's where I
  • Whilst you can only wonder why

Exercise 26

If you could ask Pulp one question about "Common People", what would it be and why?

commonpeopleneverlive

Exercise 27

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

commonpeopleneverlive

Exercise 28

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

commonpeopleneverlive

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • that's→
  • i'll→
  • wanna→
  • don't→
  • you've→
  • you're→

Exercise 30

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

commonpeopleneverlive