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A1.1·rock · pop·4:44

Let's Dance

David Bowie · 1983

Let's Dance by David Bowie (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

  • Let's dance
  • Let's dance
  • Let's dance
  • Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Echo the hook

  • Let's sway
  • While color lights up your face
  • Let's sway
  • Sway through the crowd to an empty space
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Put on your redand dance the blues

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Whilelights up your face

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Would tear myin two

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Andlike a flower

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

For fearis all

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

To the song they'reon the radio

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

To the song they're playin' on the radio

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'll run with you

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Because my love for you

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And if you say hide

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

To the song they're playing on the radio

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Put on your red ? and dance the blues

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Sway ? the crowd to an empty space

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And ? like a flower

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Would tear my ? in two

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

To the song ? playing on the radio

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 "let's" in the whole song?

"let's"

Exercise 23

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

"dance"

Exercise 24

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

  • For fear your grace should fall
  • To the song they're playin' on the radio
  • Under the moonlight

Exercise 25

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

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Exercise 26

If you could ask David Bowie one question about "Let's Dance", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • let's→
  • they're→
  • i'll→
  • we'll→
  • that's→

Exercise 29

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Let's Dance", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 30

"Let's Dance" was released in 1983. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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