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B1.1·rock·4:39

Heart-Shaped Box

Nirvana · 1993

Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana (1993) — 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

  • Hey! Wait!
  • I've got a new complaint
  • Forever in debt to your priceless advice
  • Hey! Wait!

Echo the hook

  • Your advice
  • Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
  • Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
  • Broken hymen of Your Highness, I'm left black
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I've beeninside your heart-shaped box for weeks

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

I've beeninto your magnet tar pit trap

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Forever in debt to youradvice

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Cuton angel hair and baby's breath

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Brokenof Your Highness, I'm left black

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I've been lockedyour heart-shaped box for weeks

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I've got a new complaint

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Broken hymen of Your Highness, I'm left black

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I've been ? inside your heart-shaped box for weeks

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

I've been ? into your magnet tar pit trap

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Forever in debt to your ? advice

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Cut ? on angel hair and baby's breath

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I've been locked ? your heart-shaped box for weeks

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

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

"advice"

Exercise 21

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

"i've"

Exercise 22

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

  • Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
  • Forever in debt to your priceless advice
  • I've got a new complaint

Exercise 23

Compare "Heart-Shaped Box" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 24

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Heart-Shaped Box", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 25

Describe the mood of "Heart-Shaped Box" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 26

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i've→
  • i'm→

Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Heart-Shaped Box" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 29

"Heart-Shaped Box" was released in 1993. 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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Exercise 30

If you could ask Nirvana one question about "Heart-Shaped Box", what would it be and why?

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