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B1.2·rock·3:05

Parklife

Blur · 1994

Parklife by Blur (1994) — 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

  • All the people
  • So many people
  • And they all go hand-in-hand
  • Hand-in-hand through their parklife

Sing it again — final chorus

  • All the people
  • So many people
  • And they all go hand-in-hand
  • Hand-in-hand through their parklife
handpeopleparklife

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Confidence is afor the habitual voyeur

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Of what isas

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Hand-in-handtheir parklife

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I get up when I want,on Wednesdays

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

And Iabout leaving the house

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Itme a sense of enormous wellbeing

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

They love a bit of him

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Know what I mean?

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I think about leaving the house

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What is known as

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Confidence is a ? for the habitual voyeur

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Who's that gut ? marching?

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Hand-in-hand ? their parklife

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

When I get ? awakened by the dustmen

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

It ? me a sense of enormous wellbeing

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 "hand" in the whole song?

"hand"

Exercise 23

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

"people"

Exercise 24

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

  • Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur
  • Know what I mean?
  • Who go round, and round

Exercise 25

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

  • And round, and round
  • Of what is known as
  • Safe in the knowledge

Exercise 26

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

handpeopleparklifethrough

Exercise 27

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

handpeopleparklifethrough

Exercise 28

"Parklife" was released in 1994. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

handpeopleparklifethrough

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • who's→
  • i'm→
  • it's→

Exercise 30

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

handpeopleparklifethrough