Dancing Queen
ABBA · 1976
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Dig in the Dancing Queen
- Friday night and the lights are low
- Looking out for a place to go
- Where they play the right music, getting in the swing
Echo the hook
- You're in the mood for a dance
- And when you get the chance
- You are the Dancing Queen
- Young and sweet, only seventeen
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You can dance, you can jive
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You're in the mood for a dance
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You are the Dancing Queen
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Leave them burning and then you're gone
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
See that girl, watch that scene
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
You can ? you can jive
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
Dig in the ? Queen
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Night is ? and the music's high
Exercise 15
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Feel the ? from the tambourine, oh yeah
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
You're a ? you turn 'em on
Exercise 17
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Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "dancing" in the whole song?
"dancing"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "queen" in the whole song?
"queen"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- And when you get the chance
- Looking out for another, anyone will do
- You can dance, you can jive
Exercise 25
Who in your life would you dedicate "Dancing Queen" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 26
Compare "Dancing Queen" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?
Exercise 27
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Dancing Queen", what would happen instead?
Exercise 28
The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.
Exercise 29
If you had to summarize "Dancing Queen" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?
Exercise 30
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?