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B1.2·rock·4:51

Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead · 1995

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead (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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • It wears her out
  • It wears her out
  • It wears her out
  • It wears her out

Echo the hook

  • It wears me out
  • It wears me out
  • It wears me out
  • And if I could be who you wanted
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Herplastic watering can

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

In the fakeearth

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

In a town full ofplans

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Shewith a broken man

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Who justand burns

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Butalways wins

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

That she bought from a rubber man

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

He used to do surgery

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She tastes like the real thing

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I could blow through the ceiling

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And if I could be who you wanted

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Her ? plastic watering can

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

That she ? from a rubber man

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

She ? with a broken man

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

For ? in the eighties

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

She ? like the real thing

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 "wears" in the whole song?

"wears"

Exercise 23

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

"plastic"

Exercise 24

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

  • A cracked polystyrene man
  • But I can't help the feeling
  • Her green plastic watering can

Exercise 25

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

  • And it wears him out
  • For her fake Chinese rubber plant
  • If I just turn and run

Exercise 26

Compare "Fake Plastic Trees" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Fake Plastic Trees", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

Describe the mood of "Fake Plastic Trees" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 29

Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?

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Exercise 30

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Fake Plastic Trees" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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