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Holiday

Madonna · 1983

Holiday by Madonna (1983) — 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 would be so nice
  • Everybody spread the word
  • We're gonna have a celebration
  • All across the world

Echo the hook

  • Holiday (holiday)
  • Celebration
  • Holiday
  • Come together
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Everybodythe word

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

We'rehave a celebration

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Forget about the badoh yeah

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Took some time to(come on let's celebrate)

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Andback all of those happy days

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Can makebetter

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If we took a holiday

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We need a holiday

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And we will find

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

We've got to get together

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Just one day out of life

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

If we ? a holiday

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

We're ? have a celebration

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

One day to come ? to release the pressure

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

You can ? this world around

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

If we took a ? (holiday)

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 "holiday" in the whole song?

"holiday"

Exercise 23

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

"celebrate"

Exercise 24

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

  • If we took a holiday
  • It would be
  • It would be so nice

Exercise 25

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

holidaycelebratetooktime

Exercise 26

If you had to summarize "Holiday" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

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Exercise 27

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

holidaycelebratetooktime

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • we're→
  • gonna→
  • it's→
  • let's→
  • we've→

Exercise 29

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

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Exercise 30

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

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