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My Girl

The Temptations · 1964

My Girl by The Temptations (1964) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • What can make me feel this way
  • My girl, my girl, my girl
  • Talkin' 'bout my girl
  • My girl

Echo the hook

  • Hey hey hey
  • Hey hey hey
  • Oh yeah
  • I don't need no money, fortune, or fame
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I've goton a cloudy day

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

I've got theof May

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Iyou'd say

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I've got asong

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Than thein the trees

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I don't need nofortune, or fame

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I guess you'd say

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I've got a sweeter song

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I don't need no money, fortune, or fame

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What can make me feel this way

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I've got ? on a cloudy day

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

I've got the ? of May

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

My ? my girl, my girl

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

The ? envy me

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Well, I guess ? say

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 "girl" in the whole song?

"girl"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "i've" in the whole song?

"i've"

Exercise 24

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

  • I've got so much honey
  • I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
  • Talkin' 'bout my girl

Exercise 25

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

  • Hey hey hey
  • Than the birds in the trees
  • When it's cold outside

Exercise 26

If you could ask The Temptations one question about "My Girl", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i've→
  • it's→
  • you'd→
  • don't→

Exercise 30

Describe the mood of "My Girl" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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