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B1.1·metal·3:39

The Beautiful People

Marilyn Manson · 1996

The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson (1996) — 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

  • The beautiful people, the beautiful people
  • It's all relative to the size of your steeple
  • You can't see the forest for the trees
  • And you can't smell your own shit on your knees

Echo the hook

  • Something beautiful, something free?
  • Hey you, are you trying to be mean?
  • When you live with apes, man, it's hard to be clean
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Don'tto resist, or I'll beat you

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

The weak ones areto justify the strong

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

It's allto the size of your steeple

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Something beautiful,free?

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Thewill live in every host

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

It's allas the size of your steeple

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat you

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You can't see the forest for the trees

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Hey you, are you trying to be mean?

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

There's no time to discriminate

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Something beautiful, something free?

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Don't ? to resist, or I'll beat you

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

The ? people, the beautiful people

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

There's no ? to discriminate

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Hey you, are you ? to be mean?

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

It's all ? as the size of your steeple

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 "beautiful" in the whole song?

"beautiful"

Exercise 23

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

"people"

Exercise 24

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

  • Capitalism has made it this way
  • Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat you
  • The beautiful people, the beautiful people

Exercise 25

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

  • It's not your fault that you're always wrong
  • Something beautiful and something free?
  • There's no time to discriminate

Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

Describe the mood of "The Beautiful People" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 28

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

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • don't→
  • i'll→
  • it's→
  • you're→
  • can't→
  • there's→

Exercise 30

"The Beautiful People" was released in 1996. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

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