Paradise City
Guns N' Roses · 1987
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Take me down to the Paradise City
- Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty (take me home)
- Oh, won't you please take me home?
- Take me down to the Paradise City
Echo the hook
- So far away
- So far away
- So far away
- So far away
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:
Oh, won't you please take me home?
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You treat it like a capital crime
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Why I'm here, I can't quite remember
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Tell me, who you're gonna believe?
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
"I've seen it all a million times"
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Take me down to the ? City
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
Hard ? that's tough to beat
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Everybody's ? their time
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
The ? general says it's hazardous to breathe
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
I must be ? my mind, "Are you blind?"
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 "home" in the whole song?
"home"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "paradise" in the whole song?
"paradise"
Exercise 24
Who in your life would you dedicate "Paradise City" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 25
Compare "Paradise City" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?
Exercise 26
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Paradise City", what would happen instead?
Exercise 27
Write the full form of each contraction:
won't→i'm→that's→i'll→gotta→it's→
Exercise 28
The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.
Exercise 29
If you had to summarize "Paradise City" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?
Exercise 30
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?