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Ordinary World

Duran Duran · 1992

Ordinary World by Duran Duran (1992) — 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

  • I will learn to survive
  • Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
  • "Pride will tear us both apart"
  • Well, now pride's gone out the window

Echo the hook

  • Crazy, some'd say
  • Where is the life that I recognize? (Gone away)
  • But I won't cry for yesterday
  • There's an ordinary world
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Came in from aThursday on the avenue

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Still I can'tthe ghost of you

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

There's anworld

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Well, nowgone out the window

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Left me in theof my heart

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Fearforgot tomorrow

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Thought I heard you talking softly

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

But I won't cry for yesterday

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And as I try to make my way

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What has happened to it all?

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Came in from a ? Thursday on the avenue

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

What has ? to it all?

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I will ? to survive

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Cross the ? run away

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Fear ? forgot tomorrow

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 "world" in the whole song?

"world"

Exercise 23

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

"ordinary"

Exercise 24

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

  • Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
  • Thought I heard you talking softly
  • Well, now pride's gone out the window

Exercise 25

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

  • Somehow I have to find
  • Still I can't escape the ghost of you
  • There's an ordinary world

Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

If you could ask Duran Duran one question about "Ordinary World", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • can't→
  • won't→
  • there's→
  • don't→

Exercise 30

Compare "Ordinary World" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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