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A1.2·rock·3:34

Start Me Up

The Rolling Stones · 1981

Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones (1981) — 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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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • You make a grown man cry
  • You make a grown man cry
  • You make a grown man cry
  • Spread out the oil, the gasoline

Echo the hook

  • If you start me up
  • If you start me up, I'll never stop
  • If you start me up
  • If you start me up, I'll never stop
neverstartstop

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

If youme up

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

I've beenhot

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

You make aman cry

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

With thein the other heats

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

If you like it you canit up

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Myare greasy, she's a mean, mean machine

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you start me up

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I've been running hot

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You make a grown man cry

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If you rough it up

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You got to never, never, never stop

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

If you ? me up

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

You got me ? gonna blow my top

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I ? smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

If you like it you can ? it up

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Oh ? just slide it up

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 "never" in the whole song?

"never"

Exercise 23

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

"start"

Exercise 24

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

  • If you start me up
  • Slide it up, whoo
  • Start it up

Exercise 25

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

  • Don't make a grown man cry
  • If you start me up, I'll never stop
  • Oh baby, just slide it up

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Start Me Up" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

neverstartstopgrown

Exercise 27

If you could ask The Rolling Stones one question about "Start Me Up", what would it be and why?

neverstartstopgrown

Exercise 28

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

neverstartstopgrown

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'll→
  • i've→
  • gonna→
  • can't→
  • don't→
  • won't→

Exercise 30

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

neverstartstopgrown