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I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Whitney Houston · 1987

I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston (1987) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • With somebody who loves me
  • Oh! I wanna dance with somebody
  • I wanna feel the heat with somebody
  • Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody

Echo the hook

  • Don't you wanna dance?
  • Say you wanna dance?
  • Don't you wanna dance?
  • (Dance)
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Clockupon the hour

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

How tomy blues away

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And when thefalls

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Withwho loves me

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Sooner orthe fever ends

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

On a love thathot enough to last

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I want to dance

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Oh! I wanna dance with somebody

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I wind up feeling down

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I wanna feel the heat

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Huh, ? woo, hey, huh

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

How to ? my blues away

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I wanna ? the heat with somebody

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Spinning ? the town

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

My ? heart calls

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 "dance" in the whole song?

"dance"

Exercise 23

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

"somebody"

Exercise 24

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

  • Huh, yeah, woo, hey, huh
  • Sooner or later the fever ends
  • Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody

Exercise 25

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

  • I wanna feel the heat
  • Ooh yeah, uh huh, yeah
  • With somebody who loves me

Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 27

Compare "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 28

If you could change the ending of the story told in "I Wanna Dance with Somebody", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i've→
  • it's→
  • wanna→
  • don't→

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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