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Hot Stuff

Donna Summer · 1979

Hot Stuff by Donna Summer (1979) — 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

  • I need some hot stuff baby tonight
  • I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
  • Gotta have some hot stuff
  • Gotta have some love tonight (hot stuff)

Echo the hook

  • Hot stuff baby
  • Gonna need your love tonight (hot stuff)
  • I need hot love
  • Lookin' hot stuff

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Sittin' heremy heart out waitin'

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Dialed about anumbers lately

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Gotta have some love(hot stuff)

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Wannamy love with a warm blooded lover

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Gimme ahot stuff baby this evenin'

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Iabout a hundred numbers lately

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need some hot stuff baby tonight

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need hot stuff

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need hot love

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm bound to find somebody home

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I need your hot stuff baby tonight

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Sittin' here ? my heart out waitin'

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Almost ? the phone off the wall

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Gotta have some love ? (hot stuff)

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Wanna ? a wild man back home

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Won't ? another night on my own

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 "stuff" in the whole song?

"stuff"

Exercise 23

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

"baby"

Exercise 24

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

  • I want some hot stuff baby this evenin'
  • Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin'
  • Sittin' here eatin' my heart out, no reason

Exercise 25

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

  • How's about some hot stuff baby this evenin'
  • I need some hot stuff baby tonight
  • Waitin' for some lover to call

Exercise 26

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

stuffbabyneedtonight

Exercise 27

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

stuffbabyneedtonight

Exercise 28

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

stuffbabyneedtonight

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • gotta
  • don't
  • wanna
  • gonna
  • won't
  • i'm

Exercise 30

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

stuffbabyneedtonight