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B1.1·rock·4:08

Life on Mars?

David Bowie · 1971

Life on Mars? by David Bowie (1971) — 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

  • But the film is a saddening bore
  • For she's lived it ten times or more
  • She could spit in the eyes of fools
  • As they ask her to focus on

Echo the hook

  • Beating up the wrong guy
  • Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
  • He's in the best selling show
  • Is there life on Mars?
it'sshowshe's

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

It's asmall affair

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

But heris nowhere to be seen

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

For she'sit ten times or more

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Beating up theguy

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

ThatMouse has grown up a cow

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Ruleis out of bounds

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Now she walks through her sunken dream

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

For she's lived it ten times or more

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

As they ask her to focus on

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

He's in the best selling show

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

As I ask her to focus on

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

It's a ? small affair

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

And ? hooked to the silver screen

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

It's the ? show

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Now the ? have struck for fame

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

'Cause I ? it ten times or more

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 "it's" in the whole song?

"it's"

Exercise 23

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

"show"

Exercise 24

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

  • It's a god-awful small affair
  • Oh man, look at those cavemen go
  • Rule Britannia is out of bounds

Exercise 25

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

  • It's about to be writ again
  • It's on America's tortured brow
  • To the girl with the mousy hair

Exercise 26

The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.

it'sshowshe'sfilm

Exercise 27

Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?

it'sshowshe'sfilm

Exercise 28

"Life on Mars?" was released in 1971. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

it'sshowshe'sfilm

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • she's→
  • he's→

Exercise 30

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

it'sshowshe'sfilm