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The Dance

Garth Brooks · 1990

The Dance by Garth Brooks (1990) — 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

  • I could have missed the pain
  • But I'd have had to miss the dance
  • Holding you
  • I held everything

Echo the hook

  • For a moment
  • All the world was right
  • But how could I have known
  • That you'd ever say goodbye
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

The song is"The Dance"

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

On theof

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

'Neath theabove

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

And now I'm glad Iknow

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Ourare better left to chance

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

You know Ihave changed it all

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The dance we shared

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

That you'd ever say goodbye

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I could have missed the pain

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I held everything

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

If I'd only known

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

The ? is called "The Dance"

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

'Neath the ? above

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

And now I'm ? I didn't know

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

But I'd have had to ? the dance

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

You ? I might have changed it all

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 "dance" in the whole song?

"dance"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "it's" in the whole song?

"it's"

Exercise 24

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

  • Hey, who's to say
  • The way it all would end
  • To describe it

Exercise 25

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

  • But I'd have had to miss the dance
  • The song is called "The Dance"
  • You know I might have changed it all

Exercise 26

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

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Exercise 27

Describe the mood of "The Dance" 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 Dance" 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:

  • it's→
  • you'd→
  • i'm→
  • didn't→
  • i'd→
  • wasn't→

Exercise 30

"The Dance" was released in 1990. 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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