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Pride (In the Name of Love)

U2 · 1984

Pride (In the Name of Love) by U2 (1984) — 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

  • In the name of love
  • What more in the name of love
  • In the name of love
  • What more in the name of love

Echo the hook

  • Nobody like you
  • There's nobody like love
  • Nobody like you

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

One manon a barbed wire fence

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

One manon an empty beach

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

One manwith a kiss

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

There'slike love

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

EarlyApril four

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Shotout in the Memphis sky

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

One man come, he to justify

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Nobody like you

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

They could not take your pride

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

One man come and go

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

In the name of love

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

One man come in the ? of love

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

One man ? on a barbed wire fence

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

One man ? with a kiss

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

There's ? like love

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Shot ? out in the Memphis sky

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 "name" in the whole song?

"name"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "nobody" in the whole song?

"nobody"

Exercise 24

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

  • One man come in the name of love
  • One man washed on an empty beach
  • Shot rings out in the Memphis sky

Exercise 25

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

  • Free at last, they took your life
  • In the name of love
  • One man come and go

Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "Pride (In the Name of Love)" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

namenobody

Exercise 27

Compare "Pride (In the Name of Love)" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

namenobody

Exercise 28

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Pride (In the Name of Love)", what would happen instead?

namenobody

Exercise 29

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

namenobody

Exercise 30

If you had to summarize "Pride (In the Name of Love)" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?

namenobody