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Sexual Healing

Marvin Gaye · 1982

Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye (1982) — 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

  • And when I get that feeling
  • I want sexual healing
  • Sexual healing, oh baby
  • Makes me feel so fine

Echo the hook

  • I need sexual healing
  • Oh when I get this feeling
  • I need sexual healing
  • I gotta have sexual healing, darling
sexualhealingbaby

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

It'sstronger and stronger

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Sexualoh baby

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Whenever blueare fallin'

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

A sea wasinside of me

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Theare risin' and risin'

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I'll befine,

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Ooh baby, I'm hot just like an oven

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And baby, I can't hold it much longer

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I want sexual healing

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you don't know the thing you're dealing

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Baby, I got sick this mornin'

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Wake up, ? up, wake up, wake up!

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

I ? sexual healing

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Sexual healing is ? that's good for me

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

A sea was ? inside of me

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Sexual healing is something ? good for me

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 "sexual" in the whole song?

"sexual"

Exercise 23

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

"healing"

Exercise 24

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

  • Get up, get up, get up, get up!
  • Sexual healing is good for me
  • Whenever blue teardrops are fallin'

Exercise 25

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

  • Baby, I got sick this mornin'
  • I can't wait for you to operate
  • Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!

Exercise 26

Imagine you are making a short film with "Sexual Healing" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

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Exercise 27

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

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • let's→
  • i'm→
  • can't→
  • it's→
  • that's→
  • you'll→

Exercise 30

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

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