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Don't Start Now

Dua Lipa · 2019

Don't Start Now by Dua Lipa (2019) — 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

  • Up, up
  • Don't come out, out, out
  • Don't show up, up, up
  • Don't start now (oh)

Echo the hook

  • Don't start caring about me now
  • Walk away, you know how
  • Don't start caring about me now
  • Aren't you the guy who tried to
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

If you don'tsee me

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

But look at where Iup

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

If you don't wanna see mewith somebody

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Don'tcaring about me now

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Aren't you the guy whoto

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I'mon the other side

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you don't wanna see me

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But look at where I ended up

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Walk away, you know how

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Though it took some time to survive you

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You know how you know how

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

If you ? wanna see me

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

But look at where I ? up

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

If you don't ? see me dancing with somebody

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Don't start ? about me now

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I'm ? on the other side

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 "don't" in the whole song?

"don't"

Exercise 23

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

"walk"

Exercise 24

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

  • Don't come out, out
  • Hurt me with the word "goodbye"?
  • If you don't wanna see me

Exercise 25

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

  • Did a full 180, crazy
  • Don't show up, don't come out
  • Walk away (walk away)

Exercise 26

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Don't Start Now", what would happen instead?

don'twalkshowstart

Exercise 27

Describe the mood of "Don't Start Now" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

don'twalkshowstart

Exercise 28

Who in your life would you dedicate "Don't Start Now" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

don'twalkshowstart

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • wanna→
  • i'm→
  • it's→
  • aren't→

Exercise 30

"Don't Start Now" was released in 2019. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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