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Skinny Love

Birdy · 2011

Skinny Love by Birdy (2011) — 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 I told you to be patient
  • And I told you to be fine
  • And I told you to be balanced
  • And I told you to be kind

Sing the opening verse

  • Come on, skinny love, just last the year
  • Pour a little salt, we were never here
  • My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
  • Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer
toldskinnykind

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Come on,love, just last the year

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Staring at the sink ofand crushed veneer

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Cut out all theand let me fall

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And in theI'll be with you

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

'Cause I'll beall the tickets

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Come on skinny love, whathere?

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Pour a little salt, we were never here

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I told you to be fine

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And I told you to be kind

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Then who the hell was I?

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Come on, ? love, just last the year

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Tell my love to ? it all

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And I ? you to be patient

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

And ? be owning all the fines

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Sullen ? is full, so slow on the split

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 "told" in the whole song?

"told"

Exercise 23

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

"skinny"

Exercise 24

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

  • And I told you to be balanced
  • And in the morning, I'll be with you
  • Come on, skinny love, just last the year

Exercise 25

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

  • And now, all your love is wasted
  • Come on skinny love, what happened here?
  • Pour a little salt, we were never here

Exercise 26

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

toldskinnykindfall

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.

toldskinnykindfall

Exercise 28

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

toldskinnykindfall

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'll→
  • you'll→
  • i'm→

Exercise 30

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

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