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B1.1·metal·4:38

Down with the Sickness

Disturbed · 2000

Down with the Sickness by Disturbed (2000) — 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

  • Come on get down with the sickness
  • You fucker get up
  • Come on get down with the sickness
  • Madness is the gift, that has been given to me

Echo the hook

  • (Will you give it to me?)
  • It seems what's left of my human side
  • Is slowly changing in me
  • (Will you give it to me?)

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Broken yourI kneel

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Whenit changes

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Youget up

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

It seemshaving some trouble

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Now thatwoken up the demon in me

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Why can't you justhere and die?

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Can you feel that?

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Will you give it to me?

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You mother get up

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Don't try to deny what you feel

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And when I dream

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Can you ? that?

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

When ? it changes

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Don't try to ? what you feel

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Oh no, the ? is a scary place

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Why ? you just fuck off and die?

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 "sickness" in the whole song?

"sickness"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "don't" in the whole song?

"don't"

Exercise 24

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

  • Can you feel that?
  • Come on get down with the sickness
  • No mommy, don't do it again

Exercise 25

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

  • I'll be a good boy
  • Living with these changes
  • Ooh ah ah ah ah

Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "Down with the Sickness" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

sicknessdon'tgivechanges

Exercise 27

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

sicknessdon'tgivechanges

Exercise 28

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Down with the Sickness", what would happen instead?

sicknessdon'tgivechanges

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • what's
  • you've
  • don't
  • you're
  • i'll
  • can'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.

sicknessdon'tgivechanges