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A2.1·rock · punk·2:50

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Green Day · 1997

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day (1997) — 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

  • It's something unpredictable
  • But in the end it's right
  • I hope you had the time of your life

Sing it again — final chorus

  • It's something unpredictable
  • But in the end it's right
  • I hope you had the time of your life
it'stimesomething

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

A forkin the road

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Timeyou by the wrist

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

But alearned in time

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And stillin your mind

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

In goodand good time

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

It wasall the while

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Time grabs you by the wrist

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Another turning point

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

So make the best of this test

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

It's not a question

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

It's something unpredictable

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

A ? stuck in the road

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

So make the ? of this test

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

But a ? learned in time

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And still ? in your mind

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

And ? skin on trial

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 "it's" in the whole song?

"it's"

Exercise 23

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

"time"

Exercise 24

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

  • Another turning point
  • For what it's worth
  • It's something unpredictable

Exercise 25

Who in your life would you dedicate "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

it'stimesomethingunpredictable

Exercise 26

Compare "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

it'stimesomethingunpredictable

Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", what would happen instead?

it'stimesomethingunpredictable

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • it's→

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.

it'stimesomethingunpredictable

Exercise 30

If you had to summarize "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

it'stimesomethingunpredictable