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Girls Like You

Maroon 5 · 2017

Girls Like You by Maroon 5 (2017) — 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

  • Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
  • I need a girl like you, yeah yeah
  • Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
  • I need a girl like you

Sing the opening verse

  • You spent the weekend getting even, ooh
  • We spent the late nights making things right between us
  • But now it's all good, babe
  • Roll that back wood, babe
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Spent 24I need more hours with you

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Youthe weekend getting even, ooh

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And play meyeah

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Maybe I'malive

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Maybe I knowthe one

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Maybe youit's better if you drive

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You spent the weekend getting even, ooh

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need a girl like you, yeah yeah

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need a girl like you

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Maybe I know that I'm drunk

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Maybe you thinking it's better if you drive

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Spent 24 ? I need more hours with you

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

But now it's all ? babe

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I ? a girl like you, yeah yeah

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I need a ? like you, yeah yeah

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Maybe I ? that I'm drunk

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 "need" in the whole song?

"need"

Exercise 23

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

"girl"

Exercise 24

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

  • Maybe I'm barely alive
  • Roll that back wood, babe
  • You spent the weekend getting even, ooh

Exercise 25

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

  • 'Til sun down when I come through
  • But now it's all good, babe
  • I need a girl like you, yeah yeah

Exercise 26

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Girls Like You", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 27

Describe the mood of "Girls Like You" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 28

Who in your life would you dedicate "Girls Like You" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • i'm→
  • you've→
  • you're→

Exercise 30

"Girls Like You" was released in 2017. 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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