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Get Up, Stand Up

Bob Marley · 1973

Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley (1973) — 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

  • Get up, stand up
  • Stand up for your right
  • Get up, stand up
  • Stand up for your right

Sing it again — final chorus

  • Get up, stand up
  • Don't give up the fight
  • Most people think
  • Great God will come from the sky
standrightdon't

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Get up,up

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

What life isworth

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

So now you see thehey

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Stand up for your(oh-hoo)

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Get up, stand up (keep onon)

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Almighty God is aman

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I know you don't know

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

So now you see the light, hey

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But if you know what life is worth

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And now a you see the light

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We know when we understand

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Get up, ? up

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

I ? you don't know

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

So now you see the ? hey

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Don't give up the ? (life is your right)

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Dy'n' and go to ? in-a Jesus' name, Lord

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 "stand" in the whole song?

"stand"

Exercise 23

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

"right"

Exercise 24

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

  • Get up, stand up
  • Get up, stand up (get up, stand up)
  • Stand up for your right

Exercise 25

Who in your life would you dedicate "Get Up, Stand Up" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

standrightdon'tgive

Exercise 26

Compare "Get Up, Stand Up" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

standrightdon'tgive

Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Get Up, Stand Up", what would happen instead?

standrightdon'tgive

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • can't→
  • we're→
  • gonna→
  • you'd→

Exercise 29

The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.

standrightdon'tgive

Exercise 30

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

standrightdon'tgive