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Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen · 1984

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (1984) — 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

  • Hallelujah, Hallelujah
  • Hallelujah, Hallelujah
  • Your faith was strong but you needed proof
  • You saw her bathing on the roof

Sing it again — final chorus

  • Hallelujah, Hallelujah
  • Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Now I'vethere was a secret chord

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Thefalls, the major lifts

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

She tied you to achair

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Is how tosomebody who outdrew you

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

It's a cold and it's aHallelujah

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Andsingle breath we drew was Hallelujah

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Now I've heard there was a secret chord

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You saw her bathing on the roof

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Well people I've been here before

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I remember when I moved in you

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Now I've ? there was a secret chord

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

The ? king composing Hallelujah

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And from your ? she drew the Hallelujah

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

I ? this room and I've walked this floor

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

And the ? dove she was moving too

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 "hallelujah" in the whole song?

"hallelujah"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "i've" in the whole song?

"i've"

Exercise 24

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

  • Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
  • Now I've heard there was a secret chord
  • There was a time you let me know

Exercise 25

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

  • That David played, and it pleased the Lord
  • Well, maybe there's a God above
  • What's really going on below

Exercise 26

Compare "Hallelujah" 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 "Hallelujah", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i've→
  • don't→
  • there's→
  • it's→
  • you're→
  • what's→

Exercise 30

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

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