Love Bites
Def Leppard · 1987
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- It's bringin' me to my knees
- Love lives, love dies
- It's no surprise
- Love begs, love pleads
Echo the hook
- If you've got love in your sights
- Watch out
- Love bites
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:
If you've got love in your sights
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
It's what I need
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
When you wake up, will you walk out?
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Ooh, come on
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
It's bringin' me to my knees
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
If ? got love in your sights
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
When ? alone, do you let go?
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Love ? love bleeds
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
When I'm with you, are you ? else?
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
It ? be love if you throw it about
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 "it's" in the whole song?
"it's"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "bites" in the whole song?
"bites"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- If you've got love in your sights
- Love bites, love bleeds
- When I'm with you, are you somewhere else?
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- (No) Love bites, love bleeds
- Love lives, love dies
- When you're alone, do you let go?
Exercise 26
Compare "Love Bites" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?
Exercise 27
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Love Bites", what would happen instead?
Exercise 28
Describe the mood of "Love Bites" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
you've→it's→you're→don't→wanna→i'm→
Exercise 30
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?