Price Tag
Jessie J · 2011
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Forget about the price tag
- Ain't about the, uh, cha-ching cha-ching
- Ain't about the, yeah, ba-bling ba-bling
- Wanna make the world dance
Sing it again — final chorus
- Forget about the price tag
- Yeah, yeah, well, keep the price tag and take the cash back
- Just give me six strings (six strings) and a half-stack (half stack)
- And you can, can keep the cars, leave me the garage
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
Fill the blank in this line:
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:
I wonder how they sleep at night
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
We're paying with love tonight
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
We just wanna make the world dance
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Am I the only the one getting tired?
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Yeah, we leaping across these undefeatable odds odds
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Okay, ? man, Moonheads and Pea
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
Got ? on your eyes
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Forget about the ? tag
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
And it ? low blows and video hoes
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
Everybody look to their ? (to their right)
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
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "money" in the whole song?
"money"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "price" in the whole song?
"price"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Forget about the price tag
- Okay, Coconut man, Moonheads and Pea
- Wanna make the world dance
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- Everybody look to their left (to their left)
- Seems like everybody's got a price
- So we gon' keep everyone moving their feet
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.
Exercise 27
Which single word from this song do you think carries the most emotional weight, and why?
Exercise 28
"Price Tag" was released in 2011. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
can't→we're→it's→don't→wanna→wasn't→
Exercise 30
If you had to summarize "Price Tag" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?