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Skyscraper

Demi Lovato · 2011

Skyscraper by Demi Lovato (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

  • Like a skyscraper
  • Like a skyscraper
  • As the smoke clears, I awaken
  • And untangle you from me

Echo the hook

  • Go run, run, run
  • I'm gonna stay right here
  • Watch you disappear, yeah
  • Go run, run, run
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Skies areI am watching

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Onlyas it's ending

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

You can takeI have

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

As theclears, I awaken

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Tome while I bleed?

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

I'mstay right here

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Skies are crying; I am watching

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Do you have to make me feel

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You can break everything I am

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Like I'm made of paper

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

As the smoke clears, I awaken

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Skies are ? I am watching

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Like we ? had a chance

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Go on and try to ? me down

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Would it make you ? better

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

I'm ? stay right here

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 "skyscraper" in the whole song?

"skyscraper"

Exercise 23

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

"everything"

Exercise 24

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

  • As the smoke clears, I awaken
  • Go run, run, run
  • Skies are crying; I am watching

Exercise 25

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

  • Catching teardrops in my hands
  • Like I'm made of glass
  • You can take everything I have

Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "Skyscraper" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

skyscrapereverythingbreakglass

Exercise 27

Compare "Skyscraper" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

skyscrapereverythingbreakglass

Exercise 28

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Skyscraper", what would happen instead?

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • there's→
  • i'm→
  • gonna→

Exercise 30

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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