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If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot · 1970

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot (1970) — 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

  • If you could read my mind, love
  • What a tale my thoughts could tell
  • Just like an old time movie
  • 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well

Echo the hook

  • I don't know where we went wrong
  • But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
  • If you could read my mind, love
  • What a tale my thoughts could tell
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

What a tale mycould tell

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Withupon my feet

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

When youthe part

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I'd walk away, like astar

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

I neverI could act this way

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Thealways ends

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you could read my mind, love

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I will never be set free

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

When you reach the part

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'd walk away, like a movie star

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I don't know where we went wrong

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

If you could ? my mind, love

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

You ? that ghost is me

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

When you ? the part

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Who ? burned in a three way script

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

In a castle ? or a fortress strong

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 "read" in the whole song?

"read"

Exercise 23

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

"movie"

Exercise 24

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

  • I don't know where we went wrong
  • If you could read my mind, love
  • When you reach the part

Exercise 25

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

  • I'd walk away, like a movie star
  • Just like an old time movie
  • What a tale my thoughts could tell

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "If You Could Read My Mind" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 27

If you could ask Gordon Lightfoot one question about "If You Could Read My Mind", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 28

Rewrite the chorus of "If You Could Read My Mind" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'm→
  • can't→
  • won't→
  • i'd→
  • let's→
  • i've→

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "If You Could Read My Mind", what would happen instead?

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