Take It Easy
Eagles · 1972
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Take it easy
- Take it easy
- Don't let the sound of your own wheels
- Drive you crazy
Echo the hook
- Come on, baby, don't say maybe
- I gotta know if your sweet love
- Is gonna save me
- We may lose, and we may win
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Well, I'm running down the road
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
One says she's a friend of mine
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Lighten up while you still can
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
I gotta know if your sweet love
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Though we will never be here again
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Well, I'm ? down the road
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
One ? she's a friend of mine
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
And ? a fine sight to see
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
We may ? and we may win
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
She's so ? to find
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "easy" in the whole song?
"easy"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "don't" in the whole song?
"don't"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- And take it easy
- Trying to loosen my load
- Well, I'm running down the road
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- Is gonna save me
- She's so hard to find
- Tryin' to loosen my load
Exercise 26
What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Take It Easy" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.
Exercise 27
If you could ask Eagles one question about "Take It Easy", what would it be and why?
Exercise 28
Rewrite the chorus of "Take It Easy" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
i'm→i've→wanna→she's→don't→it's→
Exercise 30
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Take It Easy", what would happen instead?