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Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

Kelly Clarkson · 2011

Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) by Kelly Clarkson (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

  • What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
  • Stand a little taller
  • Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
  • What doesn't kill you makes a fighter

Sing the opening verse

  • You know the bed feels warmer
  • Sleeping here alone
  • You know I dream in color
  • And do the things I want

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

You know the bedwarmer

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Youyou got the best of me

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Think that I'd comeback

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Stand ataller

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

What doesn't kill you makes youstronger

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Youthink that I'd come back

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You know the bed feels warmer

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And do the things I want

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Think you've had the last laugh

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Think you left me broken down

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

You ? the bed feels warmer

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Bet you think that ? good is gone

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

Stand a ? taller

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Just me, ? and I

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Doesn't mean I'm over cause ? gone

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 "doesn't" in the whole song?

"doesn't"

Exercise 23

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

"stronger"

Exercise 24

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

  • In the end
  • Stand a little taller
  • You know the bed feels warmer

Exercise 25

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

  • Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
  • Sleeping here alone
  • What doesn't kill you makes a fighter

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

doesn'tstrongerkillmakes

Exercise 27

If you could ask Kelly Clarkson one question about "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", what would it be and why?

doesn'tstrongerkillmakes

Exercise 28

Rewrite the chorus of "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

doesn'tstrongerkillmakes

Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • you've
  • i'd
  • don't
  • you're
  • doesn't
  • i'm

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", what would happen instead?

doesn'tstrongerkillmakes