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A2.1·rock·3:23

Sex on Fire

Kings of Leon · 2008

Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon (2008) — 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

  • Your sex is on fire
  • The dark of the alley
  • The breaking of day
  • Head while I'm driving

Echo the hook

  • With what's to transpire
  • Hot as a fever
  • Rattle of bones
  • I could just taste it

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Lay wherelaying

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

I knowwatching

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

It hastalking

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

HeadI'm driving

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Themare pale

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I could justit

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Lay where you're laying

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Head while I'm driving

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I could just taste it

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Don't make a sound

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The kiddie like play

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Lay where ? laying

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

The ? like play

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

The ? of the alley

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Soft ? are open

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

With ? to transpire

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 "fire" in the whole song?

"fire"

Exercise 23

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

"you're"

Exercise 24

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

  • Lay where you're laying
  • Rattle of bones
  • The breaking of day

Exercise 25

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

  • Don't make a sound
  • Feels like you're dying
  • If it's not forever

Exercise 26

If you could ask Kings of Leon one question about "Sex on Fire", what would it be and why?

fireyou'reconsumedwhat's

Exercise 27

Rewrite the chorus of "Sex on Fire" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

fireyou'reconsumedwhat's

Exercise 28

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

fireyou'reconsumedwhat's

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you're
  • don't
  • they're
  • i'm
  • what's
  • it's

Exercise 30

Describe the mood of "Sex on Fire" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

fireyou'reconsumedwhat's