Independent Women
Destiny's Child · 2000
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Where the ladies? Where my home girls?
- Where my females? Where all my women?
- How you feel about a girl like this?
- Try to control me, boy, you'll get dismissed
Sing it again — final chorus
- Where the ladies? Where my home girls?
- Where my females? Where all my women?
- How did you feel about this groove I wrote?
- Hope you got the message, ladies take control
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
What you think about a girl like me?
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
'Cause I am my number one priority
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Where them hands at if you feel it
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Try to control me, boy, you'll get dismissed
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
If you're independent, I congratulate you
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
What you ? about a girl like me?
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
'Cause I am my ? one priority
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Where my ? Where all my women?
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
If you feel it ? them hands up
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
If you ? in love, I congratulate you
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "hands" in the whole song?
"hands"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "women" in the whole song?
"women"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Hope you got the message, ladies take control
- How you feel about a girl like this?
- What you think about a girl like me?
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- If you ain't in love, I congratulate you
- If you feel it throw them hands up
- Only ring your celly when I'm feeling lonely
Exercise 26
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Independent Women", what would happen instead?
Exercise 27
Describe the mood of "Independent Women" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?
Exercise 28
Who in your life would you dedicate "Independent Women" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
i'm→it's→don't→i'll→you'll→wanna→
Exercise 30
"Independent Women" was released in 2000. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.