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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Joy Division · 1980

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division (1980) — 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

  • Love, love will tear us apart again
  • Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side
  • Is my timing that flawed? Our respect runs so dry
  • Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives

Sing it again — final chorus

  • Love, love will tear us apart again
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Whenbites hard and ambitions are low

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Andrides high but emotions won't grow

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

And we'reour ways, taking different roads

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Then love, love will tear usagain

Exercise 5

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And we're changing our ways, taking different roads

Exercise 6

Translate this line to Portuguese:

When routine bites hard and ambitions are low

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And resentment rides high but emotions won't grow

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Then love, love will tear us apart again

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Love, love will tear us apart again

Exercise 10

Choose the missing word:

When ? bites hard and ambitions are low

Exercise 11

Choose the missing word:

And ? rides high but emotions won't grow

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

And we're ? our ways, taking different roads

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Then love, love will ? us apart again

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Love, love will tear us ? again

Exercise 15

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 16

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

"tear"

Exercise 17

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

"apart"

Exercise 18

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

  • Love, love will tear us apart again
  • Then love, love will tear us apart again
  • When routine bites hard and ambitions are low

Exercise 19

Rewrite the chorus of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

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Exercise 20

If you had to summarize "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

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Exercise 21

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 22

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • won't→
  • we're→
  • you've→
  • there's→
  • we've→
  • can't→

Exercise 23

Who in your life would you dedicate "Love Will Tear Us Apart" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 24

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

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Exercise 25

Compare "Love Will Tear Us Apart" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Love Will Tear Us Apart", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 28

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was released in 1980. 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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Exercise 29

If you could ask Joy Division one question about "Love Will Tear Us Apart", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 30

Describe the mood of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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