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Girl on Fire

Alicia Keys · 2012

Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys (2012) — 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

  • This girl is on fire (fire)
  • She's walking on fire (fire, fire)
  • This girl is on fire (fire)

Echo the hook

  • This girl is on fire
  • This girl is on fire
  • She's walking on fire
  • This girl is on fire
fireshe'sgirl

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Hotter than alonely like a highway

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And she'sit down

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

She'son fire

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

You can try, butnever forget her name

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

And we're notdown

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Watch her as she'sup the night

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She's just a girl and she's on fire

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And she's burning it down

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And she's not backing down

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Looks like a girl, but she's a flame

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

She's on top of the world

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

She's just a ? and she's on fire

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

And ? burning it down

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

So ? she can burn your eyes

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

We got our ? on the ground

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Everybody ? as she goes by

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 "fire" in the whole song?

"fire"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "she's" in the whole song?

"she's"

Exercise 24

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

  • Looks like a girl, but she's a flame
  • She's just a girl and she's on fire
  • This girl is on fire (fire)

Exercise 25

Imagine you are making a short film with "Girl on Fire" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

fireshe'sgirllonely

Exercise 26

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

fireshe'sgirllonely

Exercise 27

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

fireshe'sgirllonely

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • she's→
  • it's→
  • you'll→
  • we're→
  • that's→

Exercise 29

Rewrite the chorus of "Girl on Fire" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

fireshe'sgirllonely

Exercise 30

Who in your life would you dedicate "Girl on Fire" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

fireshe'sgirllonely